feel kind of bad for him but also turned off by oversharing
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
oversharing is for anonymous
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
Looks like they're offsetting this by bringing back John Oliver for about half the season as well. He's no Troy but Professor Ian Duncan is a much-missed character for me, if only for bro-ing down with Jeff potential.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
I just don't even know what the point is without Troy tbh. Are they writing him out? Will he "go visit his aunt" for a few episodes and come back? What about Abed?
― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Thursday, 17 October 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
season 5 trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-3kFjFbSSE&feature=player_embedded
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
Meta bit about Zach Braff and what Scrubs did for him was lol.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
Ha, yeah. I lol'd plenty at this...but then, I also had high hopes for season 4 after seeing its trailer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i liked the meta-Glover joke and the return to Harmon nod. as before, cautiously hopeful
― Nhex, Sunday, 15 December 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
Two big-ass pieces in today's NYTimes:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/arts/television/dan-harmon-on-community.html?ref=artshttp://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/how-dan-harmon-did-or-did-not-get-his-groove-back-at-community/?ref=television
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
I wonder how they're going to do the whole study group thing with no Pierce and no Troy. Presumably they're going to do something with Chang that doesn't involve the usual lame nemesis/supervillain thing, but I wouldn't be averse to seeing a couple of new characters at this point.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
Not only no Pierce and no Troy, but supposedly none of them are students in season 5. In one of those pieces Harmon mentions "contrived reasons" for bringing everyone back to the school.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Given they have a criminology professor this time round, they could have a lot of fun with those contrived reasons.
AFAIK though only Jeff actually needs a contrived reason to come back in the first place?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
What did they all graduate at the end of S4 or something? I only watched like the first three episodes.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
It was only Jeff and Pierce, right? Jeff had secretly accumulated enough credits to graduate a semester early, iirc.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Jeff's reason is that he'll now be an instructor, but it seems weird if the rest of them aren't students...unless Greendale is like "The Island," and leaving is impossible.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 December 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Hey, Luis Guzman did it!
― Nhex, Thursday, 19 December 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Mad Men promo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BswdZTeTsXY
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
hahahah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Nailed it!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 December 2013 05:28 (ten years ago) link
lol
― balls, Saturday, 28 December 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
i lol'd at least a few times tnite
― Mordy , Friday, 3 January 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
The tonal shift from last season is staggering
def lol'd at the meta joke from Donald Glover
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 3 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah i have to hand it to him for willingly being Zach Braff in that gag
― some dude, Friday, 3 January 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
I half want to look up the writing credits to see if he's mentioned because I wouldn't be surprised if he put that in himself
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 3 January 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
that ep was McKenna and Harmon
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Friday, 3 January 2014 06:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah performers don't get writing credit for improvs, writing credit is assigned by the staff/showrunner, usually to whomever does the first draft.
― Clay, Friday, 3 January 2014 06:32 (ten years ago) link
first ep was good, clever, and got the job done but the second episode reminded me just how much i loved this show. jonathan banks was hilarious and even though the nicolas cage thing at first made me think 'really? you're going to go there?' abed descending into cage was amazing and it leading up the realization that 'humans are random and pointless' was great, reminded me of the lost burn in the xmas episode from season 2. happy to have it back.
― balls, Friday, 3 January 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
the Scrubs thing was so built into the episode at different points though (and Harmon and Lawrence have done so many shout-outs to each other before) that the line wouldn't be likely to just be thrown in
really sweet that Chevy came back to do a cameo now that Harmon is back btw!
― giant faps are what you take, wanking on the moon (sic), Friday, 3 January 2014 10:20 (ten years ago) link
So much could've gone wrong with the casting of Banks, and it all went so, so right.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 January 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
I'm very happy that this is a show I like again.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 3 January 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
so so happy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
no surprise that Jonathan Banks does 'old white guy' character better than chevy chase
― jbn, Friday, 3 January 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
always be caging
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 January 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
Haven't seen last night's yet, but: will I be missing anything, not having seen S4? Kinda wanna watch it for car crash value/sating of OCD completist tendencies...but I also kinda don't want to. Mostly, I'm just curious if there are any camouflaged self-referential barbs afoot.
― Cloaca & Dagger (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
There's a passing reference to Chang's "Changnesia," and his name change to Kevin, from last season (it's really better that you don't know). It's just there to put that fetid storyline to bed so everyone can move on.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
died when i noticed this, btw
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 January 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
Also Annie says 'well there was a gas leak that one year', and Jeff's reply indicates it was the WHOLE year, ie last season. At least that's how I interpreted it.
― franny glass, Friday, 3 January 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
yeah i caught that too, lol'd
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 January 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, a few lines later when they are talking about the number of Abed's breakdowns he asks, "does that inclde the gas leak year?".
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 January 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
The Zach Braff thing was definitely a planned thing, because he was brought in to do the Scrubs-style voiceover at the end of the episode.
― Cereal. Killed it. No spoon. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 4 January 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
The Pierce Hawthorne Museum of Gender Sensitivity and Sexual Potency
― optional and mutable (it's a boy!), Saturday, 4 January 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
I liked how Jeff's speech in the study room was essentially an acknowledgement and rejection of the the one-note personalities they'd become by the end of the last season. Also the apparent reset of Chang's character to his S1 persona is pretty much the best thing they could have done with him.
I was kind of worried how this show was going to work with no Pierce and no Troy, because the whole study group dynamic had become so important to the show, but that feels kind of irrelevant now. Most of all I'm just overjoyed that this show is funny again.
Loved the Pierce cameo though. Also Abed doing Cage was incredible.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 4 January 2014 12:39 (ten years ago) link
Also Troy attempting to escape from Banks's office while disguised as a chair pretty much had me in tears.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
laughed through both episodes, thank fuck for harmon
"I'M A SEXY CAAAAT"
― haim goin ham (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
"Also Troy attempting to escape from Banks's office while disguised as a chair pretty much had me in tears."
Me, too! Maybe their best credits scene yet.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 4 January 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
god the look on glover's face and then banks' last line - "we can't afford to bury father with the rest of the family"
― balls, Saturday, 4 January 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
very happy with these two. Always Be Caging had me dying, as did "gas leak year". Chang actually funny again.
― Nhex, Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Have y'all seen this: http://imgur.com/a/6Sa6L
― SHAUN (DJP), Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
OTM re: Chang. His "Aaaaawww she in your class, yo" was funnier than all of his S4 lines combined (and most of his S3 lines).
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
OTM
― SHAUN (DJP), Saturday, 4 January 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link