Xp, naturally. Like I said, small world.
Anybody know if Moffat's ever commented on this show?
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
so was i the only one who thought the finale was not that funny and easily the weakest of those last 3? i was never that big on the timeline thing, though, 'evil version of me has goatee!' is almost as oppressively corny as 'beverly hills cop theme on keytar guys!'
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
I think you're hitting the keytar thing a little too hard, sd. What would you have preferred Chang to play (especially since the presence of "Axel F" was, like, the fifth furthest thing from the point of that sequence)?
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't as funny, true, but it had more heavy lifting to do, and wasn't a paintball ep.
Also, 'beverly hills cop theme on keytar guys!' isn't really that funny, but 'beverly hills cop theme on keytar guys!' played by a short Asian-American in full Napoleon costume is much funnier.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, i was ranting about how keytar is a played out comedy device five years ago so i'm appalled to a see a show i like resort to that (xpost)
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
And that's the (apparently godawful) show Joel McHale did a pilot for before getting his Community gig.
I saw about five minutes of it online...it was painful. It mangled one of the original IT Crowd jokes and just had this stilted BBT comedic timing. And I really like Jessica St. Clair and McHale, but they both came off as corny and awful because of the way it was written and directed.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
And who the hell else gunna let Jim Rash run wild like that?
kingfish otm. And are the new guys gonna allow for improvisation? "I have the weirdest boner" was an ad-lib.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 May 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i want to believe that the chemistry and sensibility of the cast will carry the show, but considering that the highlights of McHale's film career are What's Your Number? and a Spy Kids sequel i have some concerns that dude's taste is not as great as i assume it to be
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but I mean...that keytar is an established Chang-fectation (so, so sorry) from, what, season 1? It's just about maintaining continuity, man?
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't remember that, sorry i didn't realize Community had already sunk to keytar lols years ago
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
McHale's standup, The Soup bits, and Loveline appearances probably a far more accurate depiction of his sensibility than a movie script, I must say.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Keytar was excusable for the scene where Chang wrecked Jeff's car with one, and the subsequent struggle/"We're just jammin'!"/tasing.
(also, "Did you say 'keytar,' or did you say 'guitar' like a hillbilly?")
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 May 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, iirc, Chang wanted to re-enrol as a music theory student in order to improve his compositional chops on the keytar. I think I would have liked to see a Greendale music theory class.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 May 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh i know, and he gets writing credits on The Soup etc. but when he picks shitty projects it makes me wonder how much he just kinda got lucky w/ Community.
― judas, a scary ho (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
no but: last week Neil Gaiman, who is a fan, responded to the youtube of Karen Gillan wishing she could be be in Inspector Spacetime by wishing he could write any Inspector Spacetime scenes that Gillan might be in.
On Saturday he responded to Harmon's blog post with
You know that bit a few days ago where I volunteered to write an Inspector Spacetime bit for Community if they took Karen G up on her offer to guest-Amy-Pond it?That statement is, I am afraid, no longer operative.
That statement is, I am afraid, no longer operative.
An hour or two later, he won a Nebula for the episode of Who he wrote with Amy Pond in it.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 21 May 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
Holy fuck, Britta in glasses.
(Watching "Introduction to Finality" now.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 May 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
i think they did that gag quickly in the law and order ep, too
― Nhex, Monday, 21 May 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
I just thought she was hot in glasses. I think you're right though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 May 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
Liked the finale. It had heart.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 May 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
massive xposts but if i ever find myself thinking this, that's when i smash my laptop to smithereens and go check in with the trappist monks
that was sarcasm
but i still didn't like seeing two theme eps one after another. wouldn't have cared if they were separated by weeks but seeing them back to back like that gave me a srs case of the come on guyses
otoh if next season was literally just 13 different gimmick/homage eps i'd be happy. i'd also be happy if next season was awkwardly terrible because sony is running the show and has no idea what to do with it. that'd be an entertaining switch. i'm excited!
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
i agree -- given what's gone down, i just want to see them go for broke one way or another.
― s.clover, Monday, 21 May 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
One thing I think has led to the uneven quality of the show is that so much of the time they really are swinging for the fences, as it were
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
While they weren't able to get Bill Murray on the show under Dan's tenure, I'm glad that they at least got Luis Guzman
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'll take interesting potential failure over boring consistency any day of the week (and at least twice on Thursdays).
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
OTM.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, seriously, they said "fuggit" and did an ep on MY DINNER WITH ANDRE. I was watching it at the gym while on a cardio machine and immediately got it that they were heading out a long way from shore, but the previous 2 years had given me enough faith in Dan & cadre to trust them that they'd make it work and make it make sense, and by gum, they did.
I'm still curious if Danny performed it as Andre or as Abed trying to be Andre, and if that makes a difference. Maybe I'll get a chance to ask him when they to a retrospective panel on the show in 10 years at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest or something.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
I think one of the biggest crimes regarding this show's eventual end will be Danny Pudi's genius getting perpetually shortchanged because of (let's face it) his ethnicity (looking forward to his role as Weird Cab Driver #2 in the 2014 Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy, Love, I Suppose!). Although Community should provide a ton of fodder for his reel, so I'd be over the moon if the entertainment industry proved me wrong.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
Saw Yvette Nicole Brown in a coffeeshop today. We were both sweating our tails off in line and I talked to her briefly. I haven't kept up with the show so I didn't have any in-jokes or references to say, just told her I was a fan.
― Cunga, Monday, 21 May 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
xp sadly, i agree with you on this
― Nhex, Monday, 21 May 2012 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
i suspect pudi may be stuck in "lead actor's best friend" roles for a while.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
where, you know, ryan reynolds will costar with kirsten dunst or whatever and pudi will get "the fat chick" i.e. the woman who is at normal body weight.
b/c as signs of difference "ethnic" and "normal body weight" are about equivalent in rom-coms.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
i imagine he'll land a supporting role on a sitcom with a laugh track and basically just be the character from the cell phone commercial he was in. extremely bland.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
as long as he doesn't end up on the big bang theory. i guess they've already got an "ethnic" type.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
donald glover the next drake
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
i admit that pudi's "coolcoolcool" has become standard lingo in my household.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
alison brie's career ends, except in hentai
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
i think she'll do fine.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
chevrolet chase becomes the guy "you love to hate" on the next celeb apprentice
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't she still on Mad Men? (Haven't seen the current season yet.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
She is, and, if the previews are to be believed, shows up in the next episode.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 May 2012 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
gillian carves out a career playing the love interest in every boring indie romcom, never gets to play a character that isn't boring and just a generic stand-in for "desirable woman" in scripts written by guys that go out of their way to avoid making her the MPDG and instead just write her so she gets occasionally angry
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
xp have never watched an episode of mad men, was under the impression her character isn't really central to it
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
but yeah i was joking about that, but i seriously have no idea what she'll do after this
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
but but but
yvette goes back to drake and josh, av club starts reviewing drake and josh
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 21 May 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
alison brie has been doing movies, she's in "the five year engagement" right now
― producer / dj / humanitarian (reddening), Monday, 21 May 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
Brie is a total pro, she'll be just fine post-community. XP
― Clay, Monday, 21 May 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
I wish Gillian would dye her hair back to red
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 21 May 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
Episodes I would like: Abed narrates an Inspector Spacetime episode, while in his mini-dreamatorium. M*A*S*H homage. Something involving Jeff, Britta, and "we were on a break." Cassavetes. Entourage. The West Wing. Something olympics themed. A folk rock group. Asphalt.
― s.clover, Monday, 21 May 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link