Livestream technology is now such that I could watch(read: listen to) all of this on my phone as I drove home last night.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 4 March 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Here's a youtube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B63B1FC877FAD30
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
just watched the whole thing, convinced jim rash is the funniest one there
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Sunday, 4 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 5 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
Jeong started as a standup. Actually, he started as a doctor, and then became a standup.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
i always assumed rash was a trad actor who just fit the role really well
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Monday, 5 March 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
Glover is an improv dude. McHale a proper actor. Both have only started doing stand up post-Community.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
well, JM got into standup via The Soup a while before Community, but yeah, both those guys came to it after being on TV
― some dude, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Monday, 5 March 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
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
― Boo-Yaa Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire (Merdeyeux), Monday, 5 March 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
Shirley could be an even better character if she started addressing people as "Stinker" or "my little pumpkins"
― some dude, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 5 March 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 5 March 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 5 March 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
i think someone needs to go back to the dan harmon circles reeducation camp, where circles
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Monday, 5 March 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
Pt. 14 on the paleyfest with the spoilers bit was hilarious.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― an electronic plaque of Abraham Lincoln's assassination (reddening), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
Holy balls! That's about a million times more amazing than I ever dreamed it might be.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 8 March 2012 06:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:37 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Damn straight. I thought the season 3 trailer was special, but this...this is the John Coltrane of mid-season sitcom teaser trailers.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Surely Abed should be Luke and Jeff Han? Britta as Bib Fortuna and Shirley the Ewok are genius though.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Friday, 9 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Abed has already dressed up as Han on the show, though.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 9 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
was the new one last nite?
― Lamp, Friday, 9 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC he had to grab being Han before Jeff slouches into the role by default
― kinder, Friday, 9 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
xp It wasn't on last night; it starts up again this coming Wednesday.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
thursday
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Arg, right. I was thinking of Happy Endings.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Dean as Oola
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 9 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://instantmagnitude.com
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 11 March 2012 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
Bill Carter piece in today's NYTimes.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think every genre exercise the show does counts as "parody", which Carter wrote like 3x.
I do like that this quote made it in there:
Mr. Harmon appreciates the praise and said he had no quarrel with NBC’s executives, adding that they were supportive beyond the call of duty, “especially when they are under such pressure — they’re in a knife fight with Univision for ratings, for gosh sakes"
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Britta as Jacko looks hilarious.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
"we're in a ratings war, for pete's sake, we can't have 'community'!"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
"...Jim Rash, who plays the bent Dean Pelton on the show. "
Um what
― kinder, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
wkiw drunk Britta
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
I'm so mad I missed this, our NBC affiliate didn't air it in favor of overblown thunderstorm coverage.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, 16 March 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
― kinder, Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
um what um what
― some dude, Friday, 16 March 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
^^It's a secret plug for the forthcoming NBC Romantic Comedy series "Bent".
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 March 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
Man, some of the line-readings tonight were just killer.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 16 March 2012 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
I feel super vindicated by my very early pronouncements of Community's greatness itt. Y'all just let me know when you want me to predict the next sitcom phenomenon, y'hear?
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
Lemme guess: GCB
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 March 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
the Only Fools and Horses remake with John Leguizamo.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Friday, 16 March 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
Unfortunately, ¡Rob! didn't get renewed for a second season. So much potential...lost.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 16 March 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect Apartment 23 could be good, but it could also be very very bad.
"Way to commit, Johnny Fever!"