Community, the tv show

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.

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?")

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.

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.

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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.

Anybody know if Moffat's ever commented on this show?

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.

An hour or two later, he won a Nebula for the episode of Who he wrote with Amy Pond in it.

Holy fuck, Britta in glasses.

(Watching "Introduction to Finality" now.)

i think they did that gag quickly in the law and order ep, too

I just thought she was hot in glasses. I think you're right though.

Liked the finale. It had heart.

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!

i agree -- given what's gone down, i just want to see them go for broke one way or another.

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

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

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

I'll take interesting potential failure over boring consistency any day of the week (and at least twice on Thursdays).

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

OTM.

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.

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.

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.

xp sadly, i agree with you on this

i suspect pudi may be stuck in "lead actor's best friend" roles for a while.

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.

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.

as long as he doesn't end up on the big bang theory. i guess they've already got an "ethnic" type.

donald glover the next drake

i admit that pudi's "coolcoolcool" has become standard lingo in my household.

alison brie's career ends, except in hentai

i think she'll do fine.

chevrolet chase becomes the guy "you love to hate" on the next celeb apprentice

alison brie's career ends, except in hentai

Isn't she still on Mad Men? (Haven't seen the current season yet.)

She is, and, if the previews are to be believed, shows up in the next episode.

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

xp have never watched an episode of mad men, was under the impression her character isn't really central to it

but yeah i was joking about that, but i seriously have no idea what she'll do after this

but but but

yvette goes back to drake and josh, av club starts reviewing drake and josh

alison brie has been doing movies, she's in "the five year engagement" right now

Brie is a total pro, she'll be just fine post-community. XP

I wish Gillian would dye her hair back to red

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.

many xps - McHale's standup was very mediocre.

Already did a M*A*S*H thing with Jeff being the editor of the paper and Abed being his Radar, right?

Did anyone else watch "That's My Bush"? Remember the last episode where it spins off into like Cheers and Jeffersons mini-episodes?

Allison Brie is on today's Comedy Bang Bang with Bob Odenkirk and Jason Mantzoukas

My biggest Community fear is that it will become nothing but wacky pop culture references, a la Family Guy. Which, if I were honest, I've caught glimmers of throughout its run, albeit extremely well handled.

with SAUL GOODMAN and Jason Mantzoukas!

the show didn't have to create a false dichotomy of 'weird' and 'normal' episodes (especially since i kind of suspect that the theme/parody episodes would probably be some of the most accessible ones, i.e. seeing the right episode first could easily hook a Law & Order or zombie movie buff), but by overdosing on those episodes and basically doing the Treehouse of Horror once or twice a month they painted themselves into that corner where that's the expectation the show has to serve now, as much as being funny or true to the characters.

but i'd argue that at their best they delivered 'theme' episodes that still pushed the characters further along...

obviously they've often succeeded on all 3 fronts, i'm just saying

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