Community, the tv show

ha, i saw that movie about a dozen times

Hurwitz has been on a few episodes of Harmon's podcast lately, and is generally hilarious.

meowmeowbeenz

Who was the keytar lady with Tim & Eric?

Also yeah, liked this episode - Shirley/Jeff always a good pairing, oddly

xpost It looked like Jen Kirkman

is The Apple quite the cult thing, I've *never* heard of it, and I've seen a lot of shit in my time. (Hello Xanadu)

meant to add - had to watch this a second time. just terrific - might be my favourite episode ever.

And because of the Buck Rogers link in my head I was reminder of the South Park that riffed heavily on that I'm just going to post it (again)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8cHYvf7Mms

That sent me down a trail of Buck Rogers clips. Never saw this show. Wasted youth :(
Buck Rogers Disco Dancing! biddibiddibiddibiddi It's expressive. Really impressed by how the musician figured out what the hell dumbass Buck wanted.

Well the Apple is about disco fascism, and at some points in the movie they decide everyone has to wear these holographic triangles at all times. Pretty sure there was a direct reference to that.

this episode was so so great.

up there with dungeons & dragons and 1st paintball

When I clocked they were parodying 60s/70s sci-fi I laughed like a bastard.

yeah it was the background music/'tones' playing when you first see jeff-as-a-4 that did it

post-commercial break, all the plebs being in communist jumpsuits and the all the 5s dressed up decadent Romans

the music when Tim Heidecker catches Jeff with a 2. so good.

he was soooo creepy in that bit, which movie was that a reference to

omfg Dean's freestyle rap

and the cheesy pic on the Chemistry book cover...the VHS interactive game....wow.

OMG VINCE GILLIGAN'S GUEST SPOT

Dean's rap killed me. Everything about it. Amazing.

Barack Obama is SCAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED OF ME

the guest stars in this episode! brie larson! spencer from harmontown! vince gilligan? paul williams? gina gershon?

SPENCER

Perfect episode in every way. Dean's rap probably the funniest moment of the season. I was in tears.

How in the fuck did this show stay so fucking good after Glover left?

OMG VINCE GILLIGAN'S GUEST SPOT

― Neanderthal

His identity was bugging me so much, finally twigged who he was in the coda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSW3vmRpV0

He looks so at sea in the coda with Gina gershon. Makes me love him all the more.

Supposedly he kept protesting to Harmon "I'm not an actor!" Harmon's response was basically, "Great! Use that!"

Oh right, he's dressed as a PayDay bar, duh

http://i.imgur.com/yeTLYhh.gif

so fucking funny!!!!

The more I watch it, the more I'm convinced it's the funniest gag to ever happen on Community.

Gilligan was awesome, I died when they fired up that vhs game

I played so many of those shitty games as a kid...such a good sendup.

The more I watch it, the more I'm convinced it's the funniest gag to ever happen on Community.

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my bro and I replayed the "Barack Obama is scared of me" part until we were sufficiently laughed out and could move on

i like you can see the fear in his eyes when he starts to go off

"all the black man gets is a PLATE OF WHITE LIES" while Shirley looks completely petrified

The moment when drops the mic is perfectly timed.

And the sight of a huge Payday skittering out of the room...I fucking lost it.

The payday gag was lost somewhere over the altantic. I assume it's some kind of snack bar.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y4jJaJ3mUCQ/T_r4MZkuLrI/AAAAAAAANMU/sNMgiVwgR-8/s1600/hershey-payday-bar-1.85oz-24-count.jpg

Making an early 90s VCR game the central conceit of an episode gives me the feeling that Dan Harmon et al are gloriously flying the Enterprise straight into the sun just to see what they can get away with.

Ps we had the I, Robot VCR game when I was 13

This episode was great. And now I also know that my complete dragon strike boardgame at home is worth something.

this was a brilliant episode, and still for all that dean pelton was the MVP

Chang's confession was great too

On some level the show feels less ambitious than it did in season 2, even though its basically doing the same thing. Only then it felt like "who knows where this could go?" And now its "celebrations of obscure reference points that still focus on the emotional dynamics between the characters, that's what we do." I used to worry the show would turn Family Guy but its got way too much heart to do that right now. So it's a little low impact and I can't imagine non-nerd people who aren't already into it getting into it, but I don't care because I'm so grateful for it.

Great episode!

And wow, Gina Gershon has been taking care of herself.

D&D episode next week!