"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
"oh, excuse me for being alive in the '90s and having two ears connected to a heart."
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 10 January 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
Reverse Chang tonight struck me as absolutely hilarious. Also the part about "You just admitted you own a fake butt."
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 10 January 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
STARBURNS' CAT CAR U GUYS
― haim goin ham (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 11 January 2014 00:48 (ten years ago) link
"The world's first animal powered vehicle!"
Was the episode supposed to be like the killing, or another TV show? There was clearly a logo treatment that I didn't quite get, but the grey rainy episode certainly reminded me of the killing
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
i think it was kind of serial killer genre homage mostly (opening credits were basically the Red Dragon credits iirc) and there was a bunch of Zodiac in the first few minutes. The constant rain thing could be a Seven reference, or at least that's where my mind went. It's sort of like how the paintball wasn't necessarily a Die Hard spoof but a general action homage taking from this and that blueprint or film.
― Clay, Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i thought mostly a fincher homage
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
does no-one watch Hannibal?
credits, rain, classical music, weird colors = Hannibal
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
even the way it deliberately didn't resolve was very Hannibal-ish/esque/ w/e
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
It's all Fincher.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Saturday, 11 January 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
not saying that it wasnt also Finchery, but there was a lot of Hannibal in there imho
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
ah, having seen none of the things mentioned I suppose it's obvious why my mind went "the killing"
Best ever obv Law & Order: Basic Lupine Urology xp
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
the classical music + "i thought that would take longer" thing was perfect.
note at the end abed was deleting a whole bunch of hannibal episodes from his dvr.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Saturday, 11 January 2014 03:51 (ten years ago) link
this was GREAT
gonna miss Troy
― SHAUN (DJP), Saturday, 11 January 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
choir version of 'creep' at the beginning fincher callout
― balls, Saturday, 11 January 2014 06:46 (ten years ago) link
on one hand i miss how the genre exercises used to develop from within the world (in s1/s2 there wouldn't have been text at the end unless abed put it there himself), and the discussion of the annie/jeff "thing" felt forced. on the other i was giggling straight through this thing.
gotta see hannibal though if this episode was like hannibal then hannibal is like fincher
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 07:38 (ten years ago) link
"You can't stop me because what are you going to do, not have butts?"
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 07:40 (ten years ago) link
xpost hannibal is like if fincher was an interior decorator. ITS SO GOOD content-wise, and rad to look at
zodiac levels of holy shit LOOK at that pause-moments
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 January 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link
this. damn you childish gambino.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Saturday, 11 January 2014 08:00 (ten years ago) link
i still haven't gotten around to seeing Hannibal -- basing a whole episode around a moderately popular NBC show that's been on for one season, really? that's like if instead of having a great throwaway gag about The Cape they actually let Abed make an entire episode about The Cape. Hannibal doesn't even half a half-red/half-white logo like the Community logo in that ep, does it? what was that about?
― some dude, Saturday, 11 January 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
i suppose Community may have accurately surmised at this point that most of their audience is people whose remotes are broken and the TV is stuck on NBC. kinda lol but mostly sad that the season premiere preceded by months of "Harmon's back!" excitement got lower ratings than the last season premiere that was preceded by months of "Harmon's gone!" outrage.
― some dude, Saturday, 11 January 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
very different timing for both premieres but in both cases community beat the newer more friendly nbc sitcoms in the ratings that week
― balls, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
i still haven't gotten around to seeing Hannibal -- basing a whole episode around a moderately popular NBC show that's been on for one season, really? that's like if instead of having a great throwaway gag about The Cape they actually let Abed make an entire episode about The Cape.
did you watch the episode? read the thread? plenty to laugh at, plenty of references to recognize even if you haven't seen hannibal.
and yeah the important thing is community's relative standing to its peers in the NBC thursday crypt
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/NBCs-COMMUNITY-Up-17-in-Key-Demo-vs-Year-Ago-20140110
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
if dan harmon can avoid posting naked drawings of castmembers on his tumblr or disappearing for a month, i think the chance are pretty good for a season 6. I mean, NBC has to renew something and its hitting that syndication gravy train. as for a movie, that's up to kickstarter.
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/photos/3/6/7/9/8_05f14de1719aeb2/community-fincherthA.jpg
this isn't a "omg have you seen hannibal" image they gave to all the blogs, this is a "omg have you seen a procedural about a serial killer since the mid-90s" image
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
i watched and enjoyed the episode but the whole time i was confused about what it was parodying and had no idea until i read the thread
― some dude, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
i'll admit i didn't recognize the red dragon credits and while they're not particularly iconic they're undoubtedly cheaper than seven-style credits
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
i mean i LIKE that the show doesn't trade exclusively in spoonfed Star Wars-level pop culture references but My Dinner With Andre refs >>>>> this
― some dude, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
i wouldn't say its up to the level of that episode, sure, but if you got confused because they were paying tribute to a popular filmmaking aesthetic rather than one specific movie that's on you
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
it sounds like you're mad no one said "ITS LIKE ZODIAC!"
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
i thought the montage at the end where life goes on and no one is certain who the culprit was while the ben folds song played felt like a direct homage to zodiac
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
iirc there was also a photo of a dragon-tattoo-ish punk lady on a locker early on
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
did they not really deal w/ torture serial killer flicks in the ep or did i miss some references (hostel/saw/etc)?
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
nah it was pretty much the post-seven brand
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
well i got all the stuff that was broad genre parody but i'm assuming there's some Hannibal-specific stuff that went over my head -- again i have no idea how much.
― some dude, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
in any event it felt like they wanted to do something else in the vein of the Law & Order ep or the conspiracy theory episode but didn't have as strong a hook for it, i dunno.
― some dude, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
i've never seen an ep of hannibal fwiw and didn't catch any refs to it
― Mordy , Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
i dunno, the stuff vg ref'd up thread - "rain, classical music, weird colors" - are all fincher tropes too
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
if i hadn't read the thread first i would have primarily assumed zodiac, considering the show consisted of attack sequences followed by threatening letters, paranoid detectives in glum settings and an ambiguous "will we ever know" montage
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
but if this is all like hannibal too, then shit i gotta see me some hannibal
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
are creepy greenhouses a film noir thing, or am i just thinking of "the big sleep" and extrapolating it to all film noir?
― reddening, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
more just going into a claustrophobic space, a spooky guy at the end of the hallway bolting upon spotting the detectives, and the detectives having to thrash around the claustrophobic setting, hopefully breaking at least one glass object
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
almost disappointed there wasn't more of ben folds
first time i've said that since high school
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
also i don't think this really pulled anything from hannibal other than a heightened stylized air, but everyone should still watch hannibal cuz it's great.
― reddening, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link