Community, the tv show

I wonder if I'll ever watch the fifth season

It was okay-to-great while it was happening, but I barely remember any of it now except for when Dean Pelton dressed up like a Payday bar and rapped in the study room—which was probably the funniest scene in the history of the show.

Yahoo did the three seasons of Burning Love, so this is probably a good fit. On the other hand, I forgot they existed since they geoblocked Burning Love halfway through the first season and wouldn't put it on the Australian version.

― boney tassel (sic), Monday, June 30, 2014 6:38 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always vaguely knew that Burning Love was on the internet somewhere before it aired on E! but i had no idea where. good to know, maybe this means that some months after the new Community episodes go online they'll put them on after The Soup as part of a Joel McHale power hour.

there was something autumnal about season 5, like they'd accepted their lot as a sweet little cult show. can't imagine the yahoo season will be any different.

i doubt they'll truly go insane over the relative freedom of the net cuz i assume sony still wants to air those episodes in syndication

i think the only thing that kept them from turning outright into an Adult Swim-style revolving door of pop culture pastiches was some sense of fidelity to the characters and the 23-minute sitcom formula. i don't get the sense that they'd change a lot with 'more freedom,' i just hope that the inevitably smaller budget with Yahoo is spread over fewer episodes so it doesn't suddenly look way cheaper or completely scale back on the playful special effects stuff.

Community is about 20 minutes, not 23, and they're doing the same number of episodes as S5.

Indeed, Vulture hears the production budget for Community’s sixth season will not be dramatically different than the most recent NBC season of the show.

gonna say, this show's gone from being nbc's least treasured show to yahoo's most treasured - budget's probably not that diff

kinda wonder if this last minute reveal came down to yahoo being the safety choice

It sounds like the negotiations went to last minute because Sony's contracts expire tomorrow.

It was either that or the Food Channel.

mmm brie

Hulu only passed last week, contracts expired yesterday, Sony has been negotiating with different partners for months

yeah i can't imagine sony WANTED to go with a service best known for providing Burning Love episodes before they air on E!

We were in pretty advanced conversations with Hulu and we had made a half-dozen or so phone calls to other places. Then out of the blue — and this never happens — I got the best phone call in the world from Yahoo selling us on why Yahoo would be great destination [for Community]. To be honest, we were so far down the path with Hulu that, hopefully not arrogant but [we were], maybe a little bit dismissive of their overture, which made them that much more committed to explaining to us and to Joel McHale and Dan Harmon why this was going to be a cornerstone of the new Yahoo that they're about to unveil to the world. They really want to be close to their users and viewers and wanted it to be a safe destination for creators. It was an excellent and articulate speech.

We will not cut any money from what we were doing on the broadcast version of the show. No low-cost digital whatever; Yahoo was spectacular with that and told us how much they stand for quality. You haven't seen a whole slew of announcements out of them but when they make announcements, they want them to be loud and to stand for something. They really were beyond supportive with understanding the production demands of a sixth-year show. They are fully supporting it in their deal and beyond; it's pretty historic.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/community-revival-sony-exec-talks-715907

Hopefully Donald Glover will come back to his senses for a final season. Probably not though

yeah chances of that are close to nil.

http://www.avclub.com/article/yvette-nicole-brown-leaving-community-209912?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

aw man

I don't care what Yvette says about no one character being bigger than the show. No Shirley, no credibility.

Paget Brewster, Keith David added to cast.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/community-adds-paget-brewster-keith-747827

Aw, she's not playing the same character.

damn, i'm over this show but i love paget brewster.

yesss i love Paget Brewster too. and Keith David was hysterical on Enlisted.

I only know David from Bird and his narration on Montgomery Burns' Jazz series. Whenever I hear his voice, I feel like he's about to say something snottily disdainful about the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

i've loved keith david ever since i was 12 and saw his amazingly drawn-out alley fight with roddy piper in they live

http://www.wrestlecrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/they-live-knees.gif

i was gonna say ALL-TIME

Did Keith David not do the narration for the Burns doc spoof episode(s)?

I think you're right.

Also, he was Goliath in Gargoyles. GOLIATH!

I'm still not planning to watch any of this, btw.

Is there some kind of paid Yahoo subscription we're going to have to get to watch these? Because... well I'll probably just download it somewhere else then.

I think they're going to try to do this with ad support only, but we'll see how long that lasts.

hey yahoo's been on the "we'll see how long that lasts" bubble for quite a while now

paying for a sitcom is a drop in the bucket

for Yahoo this is like pocket lint... I'm still not sure why they're bothering, but hey, at least one good (?) thing will come out of their experimentation

Burning Love!

i've loved keith david ever since i was 12 and saw his amazingly drawn-out alley fight with roddy piper in they live

ha ha I was trying to tell my wife about that fight scene recently and she thought I was making it up, then we watched that Zizek documentary on Netflix where he opens talking about They Live and teh sunglasses.

Watched the first 5 or 6 episodes of first series. Does this show get better?

I love the early episodes but the show became more conceptually ambitious and Brie became a stronger actress in her role. Maybe start watching at s1e20 ("Science of Illusion") or try some of s2, e.g. "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons", if you want a sample? "Introduction to Film" (s1e3) is still one of my all-time favourite episodes, though.

I think one of the worst signs was the charmless main male character and the prospect of another "will they, won't they?" unlikely romance.

Oh, the show isn't 'about' an unlikely romance in anything close to the way Mindy Project or New Girl were, if that's what you're worried about.

the show also gets better once they realise that jeff's strengths are not as a romantic leading man but as a narcissistic asshole prone to grandiose speeches. stick with it, it does get so much better.

the paintball episode in s1 was the real game-changer iirc

doesn't jeff accept being a narcissistic asshole prone to grandiose speeches at the end of… the pilot?

there was still a cute will they/won't they with Britta, and then they did and no one cared, hey what about Jeff & Annie?

i think Harmon was more in love with the Britta character than the audience (or any of the characters) ever was, and it became apparent by like the 9th episode that there was way more chemistry/fan interest in Jeff and Annie. and then they sidestepped the whole thing by pairing Jeff and Britta up in a secret non-romantic hookup way. i kinda liked how they handled what could've easily been a pretty tedious love triangle thing, at least until the pretty boring Troy/Britta relationship.

doesn't jeff accept being a narcissistic asshole prone to grandiose speeches at the end of… the pilot?

OTM.

The breakthrough character is Abed, who understands that he lives in a tv show.