Community, the tv show

Yeah, I'd hate for it to end on a cliffhanger and have the central mystery of the show go unresolved.

fuckin a

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

Baldwin has signed on for one more year of 30 Rock xposts.

Dan Harmon @danharmon

What you call 8:00, we call home. Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th.

I just squealed.

Exactly 12 weeks before the end of May Sweeps. There's still a fighting chance.

:D

HOORAY!! I'm sad that Parks and Rec will have a longer than usual break between episodes as a result, but at least we'll end the season with Community, 30 Rock, and Parks and Rec all on the same night...AS GOD INTENDED.

This just made my wife's day, especially since it returns on her birthday.

o god

dancin
dancin
DAAAAANCIN!!!!!!!

hooray hooray

lol parks and rec getting a five week hiatus just as community returns is the ultimate "we can't have nice things"

wooo!

!

Jacobs’s sobbing becomes ragged.

http://jonahray.tumblr.com/post/18559740787/jim-rash-was-awesome-enough-to-drop-some-spoilers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsK4Hp3dbI

The show's PaleyFest panel starts in half an hour and is being streamed here: http://new.livestream.com/paleycenter/community

Not a clue if it'll work outside the US, but hey-ho.

lol Jim Rash's Oscar on the table.

This was fun

Arrg missed the livestream. Looks like all that's on YouTube right now is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLE5j33T-co

Hah, I watched the Batman episode again recently and only then noticed that Troy was just walking round the apartment happily singing Abed's Halloween song to himself.

Ah, here we go. The whole panel, in 24 bite-sized Communinuggets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2UoLK_r-Ko

Livestream technology is now such that I could watch(read: listen to) all of this on my phone as I drove home last night.

Here's a youtube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B63B1FC877FAD30

just watched the whole thing, convinced jim rash is the funniest one there

Unless I'm wrong, he's the only proper improv type in the cast, isn't he? Jacobs, Pudi, YNB are all trad actors, Glover and McHale are stand-ups, not sure about Brie and Jeong.

Jeong started as a standup. Actually, he started as a doctor, and then became a standup.

i always assumed rash was a trad actor who just fit the role really well

Glover is an improv dude. McHale a proper actor. Both have only started doing stand up post-Community.

well, JM got into standup via The Soup a while before Community, but yeah, both those guys came to it after being on TV

Glover's not really got an improv core, he definitely came up through sketch and formal writing

McHale was doing stand-up years before Community afaik

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tarfumes linked to the av club article mentioning it, but this whole interview with community women is a v interesting and worthwhile read: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/28/community-alison-brie-yvette-nicole-brown-gillian-jacobs-megan-ganz-roundtable.html

Shirley could be an even better character if she started addressing people as "Stinker" or "my little pumpkins"

all the talk (from harmon, actors, writers, fans) about "how this episode really tells you why these people are friends" or "we really wanted to give shirley more depth this episode" etc. really kind of diminishes my enjoyment of the show. it feels like it doesn't leave any room for viewers to make heir own judgments, and anyway the "emotional" beats are generally the worst in this series. i should probably just attempt to watch it in a vacuum.

Jim Rash is a groundlings/UCB-type; I believe he taught improv there, if my FB/LJ friends are anything to go from.

One day somebody will realize that Ken Jeong is best when doing straight deadpan. I still hold that the funniest he's ever been onscreen was Knocked Up.

Actually, I don't have a problem with them explicitly breaking down the show and how they wanted the characters to work. There's something in the construction & intelligence of the show that connects to me emotionally, even with it all exposed. It's like it operates on a level where the impact of the magic trick is only heightened by showing everyone how it's done. We all know we're watching this very meticulously assembled thing, and the intelligence involved with it and what it needs from the viewers only makes us like it more.

except that it DOESN'T really seem that meticulously assembled, really, and to me that's what all the backchannels etc. reveal. i mean for all the talk they do you'd think the show would be of a bit more formal interest in terms of balancing plotlines, etc. but it's really not that much more sophisticated than a lot of other shows, except in its humor--which is what gets talked about the least, it seems.

i think someone needs to go back to the dan harmon circles reeducation camp, where circles

One day somebody will realize that Ken Jeong is best when doing straight deadpan. I still hold that the funniest he's ever been onscreen was Knocked Up.

The deleted scene with him, Katherine Heigl, and Adam Scott is insanely hilarious. Scott loses it, and Heigl sounds like she's about to hyperventilate.

Pt. 14 on the paleyfest with the spoilers bit was hilarious.

a spoilery but awesome season 3 return trailer is up (video auto-plays, sorry about that).

i think they released an animated short today too, but i haven't watched it yet.

Holy balls! That's about a million times more amazing than I ever dreamed it might be.

People are now just busying themselves assembling their own mash-up trailers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHFL3eW4nY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD8WOzRG8ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTt4EYDjk6k

I kind of want to start a thread just to attract Whiney's attention to the existence of this:

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/community-jedi.jpg

Holy balls! That's about a million times more amazing than I ever dreamed it might be.

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Damn straight. I thought the season 3 trailer was special, but this...this is the John Coltrane of mid-season sitcom teaser trailers.

Also caught a few glimpses of what Harmon called "either the best or the worst thing in television history," just Annie and Abed in the Dreamatorium for the whole episode.

Surely Abed should be Luke and Jeff Han? Britta as Bib Fortuna and Shirley the Ewok are genius though.

Abed has already dressed up as Han on the show, though.

was the new one last nite?