Community, the tv show

Community has always done best in that slot. (Best is a relative term, of course.)

Their ratings on Thursdays were better than 30 Rock's current ratings, iirc.

http://tvline.com/2012/11/21/commuinty-season-4-chevy-chase-exits/

So he won't be in the final two episodes?

He'll be in the final episode, but not a few of the lead-ups.

Surprised it took this long.

rip bigot man

lol this happens and harmon isn't even the showrunner for it

I'd say "good luck back in the career toilet, Chevy" but I'm not entirely sure that NBC hasn't relegated Community to the selfsame toilet at this point.

i think chevy can just calmly wait for death and probably be p happy about it

CHEVY + HAPPY...DOES NOT COMPUTE...BLEEP BLORP BLOOP

Chevy has seemed like the most uniformly miserable fucker in show business for 30+ years.

seems p pleased with himself at least

RIP Chevrolet Chase

Now we can look forward to his upcoming work on oh fuck who even gives a shit.

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm111824888/bad-meat-chevy-chase-dvd-cover-art.jpg

A friend on fb who works at Paramount just posted this, so it looks like the episodes in the can now are all we're gonna see.

Sad times at Greendale Community College--the "Community" actor's trailers are all gone, and their sets are bundled up and wrapped in plastic. They even took apart the faux-concrete walls around the Library exterior, which they have never done at the end of past seasons.

Yeah, demolition of sets is usually a signifier of the end.

Although, this is the fourth season, and if they all graduate and plan to move beyond the Greendale setting like Harmon intended, this would make sense.

That's definitely not a good sign. But, I guess Whiney'll be happy.

it's so weird and passive aggressive that they renewed it at all. hopefully these episodes are good, though.

xpost lol c'mon they were never really going to move the show outside the campus

some dude otm, especially with Harmon out of the picture. they sure as hell weren't going to follow his "grand plan", if it even existed in the first place.

this show was/is great. it never deserved to get treated quite as badly as it did, by the network, the production company, its egotist creator and its cunty old barnacle of a "name star".

OTM.

I think four seasons is enough though, artificially extending its run past a college course's natural lifespan would feel so forced.

if cougar town's second life goes well on TBS or wherever they are, I wonder if community stands a chance at following suit (or if it could potentially platform hop to somewhere like hulu or netflix). then again I kinda wonder if most of the cast isn't ready to move on to movies or furthering their rap careers.

sony seems to hate community more than nbc does, i imagine that's a bigger problem than having a station to air the show

Kinda wondering why such a big deal was made of Chevrolet leaving if there were only going to be two episodes after he was gone.

prob b/c it's simultaneously insanely unprofessional and reaffirming of every bad thought everyone ever had of chevy

It's clear from the Old Navy ads that Chevy made a thoughtful, considered, and highly principled choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ACRFd9aJ4

I no longer fear Season 4.

if that's indicative of the shift we're def headed into the family guy zone, which ain't all bad as long as they're faithful to the characters.

it was odd that on a recent Harmontown, DH called Chevy from the stage and Chase called him back later. Sounds like they still get along.

Harmon's always said they get along fine because they're so similar: they're both giant babies

Did I say I no longer fear Season 4? Apparently, there's good reason to fear.

Season Faux, two days away

one day actually, though I won't watch it until Friday

though I guess the hundred or so episodes of Harmontown in the past month make up for it

xp Yeah - Harmontown is great, Harmon being a character in his own right. He manages to be very magnetic and sorta... repulsive? overbearing? relentless? simultaneously.

Liked him detailing how he's essentially derailed at least one of the three shows he's incubating right now.

not that i have any hope for the new season but that NYT article is annoying me. complaining about britta not remembering the history of inspector spacetime? goes beyond giving a bad review and sounds like catering to the rabid avclub fans. (and then he gets the info about pierce leaving wrong and implying that there might be hope for a season 5, which, o_0). and isn't happy endings a really well-liked show?

but if it's truly dumbed down, i don't really get the point. if NBC was going to strike the set months before the first episode even aired why didn't they just keep harmon on board and let him do what he wants. they're in might-as-well-burn-the-season-off mode now.

Seeing Harmontown live last week was certainly something.

NBC didn't fire Harmon, Sony did

YUP. i think i made that correction itt like half a year ago, whoops

but if it's truly dumbed down, i don't really get the point. if NBC was going to strike the set months before the first episode even aired why didn't they just keep harmon on board and let him do what he wants. they're in might-as-well-burn-the-season-off mode now.

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I think there was some hope on Sony's part that they could still get a hit out of this, and that to make it a hit, they'd need to keep Chevy, who they likely figured wouldn't stick around for another Harmon season.

I got seasons 2 and 3 for Christmas and rewatched them. S2 really was all that great: I even really enjoy the more straightforward episodes that I didn't like as much the first time around, such as "Accounting for Lawyers". In fact, those can sometimes stand out as the funniest. (See also: "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts" from s3). A lot of s3 is great but "Contemporary Impressionists" and just about everything after Chang takes over the school have not gotten better. I actually skipped "Virtual Systems Analysis" this time around.

I think it was mainly to get enough Chevy-episodes for syndication. If they failed at that (they have close eighty episodes, right? is that enough?), then this will probably be seen as one of the dumbest moves by a studio ever.

I think there was some hope on Sony's part that they could still get a hit out of this, and that to make it a hit, they'd need to keep Chevy, who they likely figured wouldn't stick around for another Harmon season.

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yeah. it sucks that it all seems so pointless now. i've never been a giant fan but the commercials so far and that review have me thinking i shouldn't even try.

eh, i've stuck it out this long, might as well watch it end

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/new-community-producers-moses-port-and-david-guarascio-preview-season-4

longish interview w/ the new showrunners. they mostly say the right things but they also kind of come across as the pod people of showrunners.

I get why the whole 'Britta forgetting Inspector Spacetime' seems like a trivial complaint on the surface, but this is a show that's gotten a lot of mileage out of callbacks to small details, and if the new showrunners are that inattentive to detail, it certainly doesn't bode well for the tone of the show.

OTM. Plus, for all that "Inspector Spacetime" sucked, it was a big part of s3. It is pretty weak, then, for the new creators/writers to overlook that Britta introduced Abed to it in the first place.