Community, the tv show

I laughed pretty damn loud at Britta reaching to console Jeff as he bawls into his textbook and he just slaps her hand away.

4 eps left, btw. Next week, then 3 on the Thursday after that.

http://i.imgur.com/hMfNx.gif

Theory floated over on another board where I stole that gif: Evil Jeff is the one-armed lawyer who dropped off the beginning of the show. He's even missing the correct arm.

Troy and Abed between dimeeeeeeeennnnnnsions!

You'd have thought they might have noticed he looked just like Jeff?

Amazing episode, just hilarious all the way through. And yeah OTM about the Chang payoff. I actually really want them to develop Chang as military dictator now, that would be glorious.

They'll all have to enroll at the air conditioning repair school now..

Haven't seen the new ep yet, so I'll complain about it later, but what kind of community college makes you go to summer school? I just figured community college sort of *was* like summer school, sort of informal, where you just sort of scheduled classes ad hoc and wily nilly.

Ha, trust me, it's often way more formal than that.

You'd have thought they might have noticed he looked just like Jeff?

Abed was the only one who saw him. Abed also noticed and didn't say anything when he saw the Evil Dean.

xxxp troy with the big sacrifice joins the air conditioner repair school to save the group, sounds right

loved this one

I liked this ep, but it felt sort of ... short? Perhaps because there was so much going on. Dean was great here, and tbh I'm not a huge Dean booster; I like him in small doses.

I recall before the season resumed the trailer played up Chang on the rampage, so I assume there will be more Chang to come.

Chang is in the air?

what was all the weirdness with the pizza bit at the end? I know it was reffing the earlier 'timelines' episode but was anything specific going on, because it weirded me out?

I've kind of finally accepted that Season 3 feels way sloppier than Season 2 did for me, so while little things annoyed me or felt trite, this last episode I could just lol at the Dean and not sweat whether this still the best thing since the simpsons or whatever euphoria I had going on last year.

Showing the last stage of grief, or that abed realized that everything was still ok, or to remind everyone (incl. the pizza guy, who I laughed pretty hard at) that other timelines exist?

We still have the John Hodgman cameo to come, too

Jim Rash definitely deserves a little Emmy to go with his Oscar

halfway to EGOT

I've kind of finally accepted that Season 3 feels way sloppier than Season 2 did for me, so while little things annoyed me or felt trite, this last episode I could just lol at the Dean and not sweat whether this still the best thing since the simpsons or whatever euphoria I had going on last year.

I eased up a bit when I looked at a list of s2 episodes and realized that I didn't remember a couple of them and remembered a couple being a little weak. It's possible that I may have just been so excited by what they were doing in the best ambitious episodes that I was holding this season to an unreasonable standard. Certainly, at least half of this season has been great. I don't know if any sitcom could have lived up to my expectations after s2.

"In the best episodes", I should probably say. I actually really like a lot of the more 'normal' episodes.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2640714/

The last scene was necessary imo - they had to establish that the group is strong enough to stay close without the focal point of the college.

Huh, Annie's Boobs has been all over the place.

that's how rumors get started...

omg, that gangster movie flashback...

what are all these cameras doing here?

also lol at jeff doing his best groucho

u mean an institution like marriage?
i mean a mental institution
so do i!

I parked by a meter.
Did anyone else park by a meter?

WAIT, WHAT?!!

^that may have been the best timing on a joke I've ever seen.

Welcome

...

to Ladders.

Let's remove a pen and see what happens.

Kind of disappointed we didn't get some kind of callback to "Learning!"

Seriously? No one itt is talking about the 4th season renewal yet? Only 13 episodes to start, but, hey...

The other thread is taking up that slack.

Ah, figured it would be in here.

loved every single second of the mental institution.
ESPECIALLY (super deep voice) "Let's remove a pen and see what happens."
would watch an entire episode of this.

The fact that community colleges are almost all two year institutions, and just dismissed it for the sake of... whatever = PRETTY AWESOME.

Yes, low-voiced professional Garrett was super awesome!

Incredible episode, best of the season so far I reckon.

best momentis when they talk about kidnapped dean and iirc jeff says the dean is probably super busy working on a sexy patty hearst costume.

/Britta says the poor guy is probably trying to cobble together one :)

i liked this one once the "twist" happened but it was weird how the first 2/3rds was basically a fake clips show again but not as funny/dense as the first time they did fake clips

The first clip show ep is top five of all of them for me though. One thing I've missed about this season is the steady stream of batshit classes and odd professors so was happy to see that was still going on.

Also the Dean alerting them to the fire and Chang electrocuting his testicles were awesome. Kinda reminded me that Ken Jeong is really great at physical comedy and hasn't had much time to shine at it this year.

oh man this episode was just on fire

90 minutes of Community this Thursday!

(Then no more until the fall, but still...90 minutes!)

wha? did they make a movie?!

Think they're just burning off the remainder of the episodes.

They were going to air the final two in an hour next week and have the two hour finale of Awake this week because it's the last day of Sweeps, but Community's ratings are much better than Awake's (which has just been cancelled) so they're just finishing them all this week.

How sad must Awake's ratings be if Community gets better ratings?

NBC's drama problem seems a bit worse than their comedy problem. Couldn't believe they were bothering to "fix" Smash but apparently even if descending ratings it's still above anything that previously aired in that slot recently.

You couldn't pay me to sit through another high-concept drama that uses the unsolved mysteries crutch after Lost shit the bed (although Fringe largely sidesteps those pitfalls with a degree of grace). Between that and the slew of clones that turfed out really quickly, I'm not surprised people are a little wary of that sort of thing.

(Re: Awake, obvs.)