upon rewatching, that particular Inspector Spacetime gag made me realize that the entire series is lazy and awful and all of my previous laughs were lies.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Currently lunching at a dive bar and somebody just put on an R&B track on the jukebox which sounds suspiciously like a barely masked "Daybreak"
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Every time T&A make an Inspector Spacetime joke, I picture internet heads exploding the way they did when someone on Lost said "Hanso."
― President Keyes, Sunday, 18 March 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
not sure i have thought any of the inspector spacetime gags seemed well-advised, let alone funny
― j., Monday, 19 March 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
i wish they'd just do their dream inspector spacetime ep and get it all out of their system
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
making fun of doctor who > making fun of robocop tho
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
kickpuncher is funny because his punches have the power of kicks. the robocop thing is just a little extra.
― j., Monday, 19 March 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
o yeah it's funny but as but as parody dr who is such a better target
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
ah you mean as a law of comedy
― j., Monday, 19 March 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno. it seems like doctor who is already intrinsically goofy. robocop has that seriousness to it.
― j., Monday, 19 March 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Where does said law fit on the Universal Comedy Meter, please?
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
robocop is great but more intrinsically goofy to me bc of its 80s campiness/verhoeven campiness
i don't actually watch dr who but i do have a tumblr so
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
ppl are fucking life and death abt that show
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
after all this time, it's still impressive how ilx can drain the fun from anything at all
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 March 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
let's discuss that
― j., Monday, 19 March 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
i say that to myself about a lot of things before thinking "maybe if i don't want to read a discussion about this thing i shouldn't be going to places where it's going to be discussed"
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
ppl are fucking life and death abt this show
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
i would watch a three episode inspector spacetime arc with great joy, but only if they never mentioned it again
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
your favorite things and why they suck, coming up on ilx
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
It's important to give good things a dressing down when they aren't perfect, I find.
― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 19 March 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
The Inspector Spacetime-knockoff webseries Kickstarter is still active, btw.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878253293/inspector-spacetime-the-webseries
Almost to their goal
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 06:35 (twelve years ago) link
it's called a raison d'être, fella
― Bo Jackson Overture (King Boy Pato), Monday, 19 March 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
― mookieproof, Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if u really, truly, like something, don't talk about it on ilx.
anyway now that i am caught up i can say this was pretty good by season 3 standards which means it wasn't really that good.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
haha i'm hardly a community stan -- i was honestly still amazed, after nine years, at ilx's ability to kill fun.
i mean srsly -- it's a fucking american network sitcom! ppl are complaining about character development vs. world building vs. consistency vs. whatever. i don't care if ppl dislike it, just don't act like it's this huge life disappointment or something.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
sub-Godard. worst episode ever.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
only sub-custos counts
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
in all srsness though it was a quality episode, but as others have said, not "the" episode I'd look to as evidence that the show was amazing. but it still brought the lols (/chaki)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
Brit was the hero of that ep.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah by far
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
give a man big enough straw & he can suck the fun out of anything, even message board posts bemoaning the fun sucked out of other message board posts
― flopson, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
i like talking about things i like
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
sry
ilx = Pierce
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
ilx = Britta
― s.clover, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
Am I the only one who sees lots of "Seinfeld" parallels in this show?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
i think so, yeah, i can't think of anything offhand more specific than 'funny nbc show'
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
in this post-seinfeldian tvscape etc etc
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
Also shows about nothing (really). Lots of surreal subplots, often hinging on infantile, selfish behavior. Troy and Abed=Kramer. Jeff is Jerry. Chevy Chase is George-ish.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
nottttt really
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, not at all
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Not at all? That's the vibe I'm totally getting. Thinking stuff like drugging a girlfriend to play with her toys is something this show would do and only this show.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
Not saying this is by design, mind. I'm just getting Seinfeld vibes in season 3.
I think all of the Seinfeld characters are a lot colder than anyone on Community.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
I think Seinfeld is way more nihilistic
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
Think it's the combination of selfishness and surrealism on display each week. I dunno. I think the characters on Community are pretty cold, personally. They're all kind of robots, and even when there are glimmers of heart it feels kind of tacked on, because we know these people can't change. Like the S3 season where Britta suspects someone is homicidal, and it's perfectly plausible that any one of the group can be the crazy one.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Now, I, personally, feel more affection for the Community crew than the Seinfeld folks, but they're still a bunch of self-involved loons.
selfishness and surrealism is like the template for half of all post-Seinfeld sitcoms
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
I could not disagree more, but w/e. xp
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to rebut this but I had a flashback to "Bring it in for a breast bump, ladies! ...No? We'll get there!" and am too busy lolling.
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
I agree with you, some dude. Not saying the shows are identical.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link