Community, the tv show

yeah im sure the comcast execs are poring over it as we type

does anyone have an email addy for slate's editors? have a pitch for them about parks and rec.

sometimes you r pretty obtuse. do u think maybe slate's reading audience might bring better numbers to the show and help it stick around longer if slate keeps writing fawning articles about it?

Slate is the weirdest site. They have a Culture Gabfest podcast where like 2 weeks ago they first discovered this show called "Breaking Bad".

Culture Gabfest is a horrendous joke. I listen to it on occasion out of a masochistic urge to hear middle-class idiots try to reconcile what is popular with their limited understanding of culture.

sometimes you r pretty obtuse. do u think maybe slate's reading audience might bring better numbers to the show and help it stick around longer if slate keeps writing fawning articles about it?

― Mordy, Friday, August 26, 2011 3:54 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

fair point, but i did already say no non-viewer would get past paragraph one

The Clerks tv show would really blow this guy's mind, since the 2nd episode was a clip show.

― President Keyes, Friday, 26 August 2011 15:35 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol wut

the Clerks animated show is probably the best Kevin Smith project released and that second episode is why; it basically does the exact same thing as the "Community" episode

it's also probably a large reason as to why there are only 6 episodes of Clerks, lol

except that it did flash back to a clip from the first episode every time iirc?

Clerks was canceled after that 2nd episode. The other 4 came out on DVD later.

Also, ABC only aired episodes #4 and 2, so the flashbacks to Ep. #1 didn't make any sense--or perhaps functioned as the Community flashbacks did.

KNOWLEDGE

steez is abed level yo

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2011/09/yay-new-community-preview

ok i generally think the dean is the least funny character, but if he's now modelling himself on walter white, that is something else

I don't know how a song and dance number fits into the story, but lol @ the line "we're gonna have more fun and be less weird than the first two years combined."

http://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/k3kls/i_just_had_a_facesmack_realization/

season 2 dvd is out! i put it in my netflix queue, and noticed that the capsule description of the show calls Abed "a film student with Asperger's." the show's never officially diagnosed him, has it?

no and that description is annoying

seriously

abed is a student of human nature

Abed is deliberately 90 deg out if phase with everyone else, and with the show as a written creation.

I think Dan's addiction to TVTropes might feed into this.

IIRC, in one of the early episodes, Jeff answered something Abed said with "...and you have Asperger's", which was the most blatent reference, although (grain of salt ready) the line is more about Jeff being a dick than whatever it is that makes Abed Abed.

yeah, early on they obv intended Abed to be strictly aspie, then pulled back from this, eg "Abed The Undiagnosable"

yeah they definitely tiptoe around it and make a show of not pinning him down to anything like that -- Big Bang Theory walks that line even more precariously with Sheldon

seems pedantic to think too much about it. they can have more fun with it this way.

15 MINUTES, Y'ALL!!!

"Can it, boobs!"

Felt off, airless, a bit too predictable. Did Cougartown really need to be a continuing thing? Would prefer it if they just moved moved moved.

Did like the Doctor Who bit, though.

I hope that's the last show for a while where the group analyzes its own dynamic. I thought it was a good episode, but that topic is stale.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrybkeBsnm1qb17fmo1_400.gif

I hope that's the last show for a while where the group analyzes its own dynamic. I thought it was a good episode, but that topic is stale.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's the kind of thing that head writers like to talk about in extensive online interviews but nobody else gives a shit about. just give us the funny.

<3 all the British TV stuff.

Cougarton Abbey

hopefully pierce being back in the group means an end to the in-fighting plotlines, because that was old last season. less yelling, more zings!

but still some quality stuff tonight. i liked shirley quietly suggesting they use abed's catatonia as a chance to baptize him.

liked the 2001 and Shining nods but would've liked a full blown Kubrick ep more

I was dying already the instant Abed said "I'm on episode six", enough that my wife paused the episode and made me explain why I was laughing so hard and I said pretty much what Britta said 20 seconds later when we pushed play again.

I'm annoyed they just didn't use Dr Who and used some lame stand in.

Ep was kinda lame, but they always start slow. Not feeling the lizard but I <3 the 'lets breaking bad together' w/ omar line.

'Cut it boobs' p much the only line i lol'd at, along with the rectum bit.

Nah that was great, I hope it's the new Kickpuncher.

Episode was fun but kinda felt like they were trying to cram too much in, maybe the Dean/Goodman stuff could have waited an episode or two. Better than the start of S2 though. Shirley had most of the best moments although the idea of Chang as the security guard has serious lol potential.

thought the shot of jeff in the tunnels when the smoke starts rolling down towards him and chang scampers down a side corridor was amazing

Did Cougartown really need to be a continuing thing?

YES. COUGAR TOWN JOKES NEVER GET OLD.

YOU ARE THE OPPOSITE OF BATMAN.

thought the shot of jeff in the tunnels when the smoke starts rolling down towards him and chang scampers down a side corridor was amazing

i was impressed by this too! the whole episode looked very good. also britta went back to having wavy hair and i thought she looked amazing, especially in that gray shirt in the tag.

this was awful

Martin Starr's on next week, playing one Professor Cligoris.

I'm w/ flopson - if it carries on like this I might well have to consider myself an outright non-fan.

i loled.

also britta went back to having wavy hair and i thought she looked amazing,

Dan Harmon was saying on one of the DVD commentaries that they got so much flack for changing Britta's hair in season two. I didn't even notice she'd changed it back.

We had to stop the DVR because we were laughing so hard at "you've really thought this through" on the Dean's monkey hotel plans.

No way was this awful. I agree with Matt though - too much stuff. So far The Office, BBT and this have all started off pretty good and in the absence of ANYTHING FUNNY AT ALL on British TV I'm happy with that.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yeoE84ZVkCw/SP6I43Hx-0I/AAAAAAAAAwc/CApbhuGd3hM/s400/GodBlessAmericaAgain2.jpg

Think they were just getting their ducks in a row really, seemed to be a lot of scene setting crammed into 20mins.