Community, the tv show

community bringin it

god that was so much awesome

When Pierce came out in that suit thing I lost it

I like this post - Leonard.

Birthday cake birthday cake women's shoes birthday cake

Or whatever.

I would have maybe preferred a bit more action and running around and a little less narration but overall this was fantastic. I love that Abed actually made Jeff go back to the office to get the real imaginary pointy friendship hats. Also that there's now a Greendale student even older than Leonard. Also Shirley openly glorifying in the violence was lol.

holy motherfuck of changness i lost it so hard when pierce's weapon was revealed

also if they ever do get to do a bill murray episode, it now has to have a bit of a ghostbusters riff so chevy can be a bitter stay puft marshmellow man.

Pajamas without children, violence with no purpose. I saw mommy kissing Exxon Mobile. —Amanda Johnson, poet by choice, lesbian by birth.

omg yesssssssssssssss

I think the thing I appreciated/enjoyed the most was that at one point a few years ago I was trying to figure out how to capture the experience of really enjoyable messageboard threads in the context of mainstream entertainment and the closest thing I could imagine was basically the email/text/Facebook exchanges in this episode.

I like this post - Leonard.

― Clay, Friday, April 6, 2012 5:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the Britta running gag was brilliant too, particularly the payoff with the "accidental" Troy-Abed shot

Just watched the last two episodes back to back, and both were great. At first I was worried this would just be some unexplained genre parody, but they did an excellent job of explaining HOW this documentary got made, and having it fit in the known Community universe. Granted, a lol's a lol, but that extra care is really appreciated.

leonard likes this post

Leonard fought for North Korea, huh

"Yeah. Gee, that's a good one."

Wow, this is pretty awesome!

I like this post - Leonard.

― Clay, Friday, April 6, 2012 5:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, April 6, 2012 3:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Leonard fought for North Korea, huh

Yeah, that was a nice touch.

Later on, Troy would say the war was awesome, but also... not awesome?

Holy shit, Keith David

Wow, could this show have picked a less timely object of satire? I don't know if that made it funnier or less funny but my wife thought it sucked. I guess I'm on the fence, but there was a lot I loved, but the meta in this one was pretty meta.

Oh, the Rambo joke was dead-on. It totally technically should be "Rambo II: First Blood Part III."

Ken Burns documentaries are always timely ffs.

Hard to believe, but "The Civil War" was almost 25 years ago. Time flies when you're timely.

"North Korea" was my fav gag...
so who thinks that was actually Chase in the pillow suit?

On the s1 DVDs, they say that he does all his own physical pratfalls etc so I can believe that it was.

Still on the fence about this one. Might need to watch a second time again. This is OTM:

the meta in this one was pretty meta.

Having said that, this show's genre parodies have never been that timely. My Dinner with André was 30 years old, surely; Goodfellas 20 years old; 1984 65 years old, etc.

Well, "1984" is a perennial, and explicitly referenced in the episode. "Goodfellas" is iconic and oft parodied. "My Dinner with Andre" I thought was being willfully out of date. "The Civil War" ... I dunno. Ken Burns's style is iconic and oft-paradied, but this was pretty specific. Which is why I'm not sure if it was intentional enough. It would have been funny if it was it was a "Jazz" parody.

Did cynical folk roll their eyes and hand-wring about Kane homages in early Simpsons episodes when they came out?

probably!

Tbch, I didn't know there was a Burns documentary about the US Civil War that this was directly parodying. I just thought it was a spoof of PBS historical documentaries more generally.

Do you think the Christmas episode could have worked as a Jazz parody? The parody of Glee, while timely, was pretty weak as parody.

Tbch, I didn't know there was a Burns documentary about the US Civil War that this was directly parodying.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, April 7, 2012 4:51 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How on Earth...

not everybody lives in the U.S.

(i did not know that either)

b-b-b-b-b-but ken... BURNS... does this THING. A THING that he DOES.

i've seen his baseball ones tho, if it makes you feel better. (they bored me to tears)

Wow, could this show have picked a less timely object of satire?

I don't these things in Community as satires--more as borrowed frames to plug the characters into. The episodes aren't really critiquing "My Dinner With Andre" or Ken Burns. What would be the point?

lol i never knew this was a direct parody, i just thought it was 'general war documentary types'.

Ken Burns Civil War is all-time

If you don't get down with that, I dunno what to tell you

Different if you don't know it at all, but if you saw it & are just blowing it off then omg jaded much

It would have been funny if it was it was a "Jazz" parody.

Are you serious?

No.

Same thing with that NYT profile a while back; these aren't parodies, they're genre exercises, but we're not used to a thing explicitly adopting genre tropes for an outing without being a parody of said genre.

I totally get that, and it's really not a deal breaker for me, but this was more than just making fun of documentaries. It was specifically making fun of Ken Burns's "The Civil War." Which makes it a parody in my p=book, and is perfectly cool, if that's your thing. I just get this feeling I've seen it made fun of a lot. Unlike, say, "My Dinner with Andre." In a lot of ways the pledge drive thing at the end sort of saved it for me, especially since this show (and its cast) has a history of making fun of PBS/NPR.

I didn't know it was a specific thing either. Still loved it.

http://www.twitvid.com/TPEJC

ken burns is a genre

remember how some people last year were criticizing that 30 Rock episode last year that parodied Bravo housewife shows TOO closely, making it unenjoyable? that's kind of the vibe i got from this, that the humor got watered down because they stuck to the Burns tone a little too much

still, some good laughs in this ep no doubt. keith david 4eva!