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I wasn't quite on-board at the start of the pilot episode, but it might have some life as Jeff has to actually put in some study time to get through his stint at community college.
It was nice to see Alison Brie in a contemporary setting (she plays Trudy Campbell on "Mad Men").
Don't mind staring at Britta, either.
Hopefully Chevy Chase can provide some laughs on this show.
Not sure if it'll catch on with the general audience, but I think it might have more promise than "Parks and Recreation".
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"P & R" is like a trainwreck of a sitcom, but I hope Community will provide much more substantial laughs and stories.
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The pilot started off a little slow and underwhelming, and it was more smug than funny, but somewhere around the Breakfast Club quote, I started laughing a lot. I laughed more at the last 10 minutes of the pilot than I did the entire first season of P&R.
BTW, how did this become a P&R bashing thread?
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I enjoyed Community. I laughed so hard through out it. The Breakfast Club references were hilarious and I loved how they played the song at the end. I thought each and everyone of the cast members were wonderfully funny. I look forward to next week.
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I'll start by saying I absolutely love Joel McHale on The Soup. He consistently provides more laughs on that show in 30 min. than pretty much anything on TV these days. However, I thought the premiere of Community was pretty bad. I kept waiting for it to actually be funny, but that never happened. I'm not going to bail on the show after only one episode, but if it doesn't get better than the premiere by week 3 or 4 I'll be dropping this one from my season pass.
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I enjoyed the show more than I thought I would. I will definitely keep watching the show for a while.
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Senor Chang's rant in the front of Spanish class was side splittingly funny, and I rewatched the doggerel Spanish rap after the credits like 6 or 7 times. Those two moments alone made the second episode... gulp... funnier than the preceding episode of The Office, and there were all sorts of other goodies in between (seeing Joel McHale in Abed's ultra-tight blue & turquoise striped shirt had me rolling just because it looked so goofy). Abed's pop culture Tourette's and his Aspberger's affect make him the breakout star of the show. He's hysterically funny.
Sure, some of the Chevy Chase stuff fell a little flat, but I'm really digging this show right now. Second episode is definitely a keeper.
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Wasn't super-bust-out funny (what is, anyway), but it has humor and heart, and incremental character development, and decent amount of give-n-take and cat-n-mouse to keep things simmering. Enjoyed el tigra with bite.
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Another laugh out loud episode for me. The spanish teacher was so funny, Chevy and Joels assignment was even better!
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I was finally able to catch this show online. I really like it. And I have to agree, the Spanish teacher rant was great. Viva Senor Chang!
Edit: I had no idea this was supposed to be in Colorado. HAHA!
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I must be the only person experiencing Ken Jeong overload. I'm starting to find him much too broad and grating.
The rest of the show, however, is proving to be quite likable. I thought the pilot was very cleverly plotted with a unique approach and sense of humor. I agree completely with Adam and Patrick's comments a few messages up (except for Adam's mention of Ken Jeong, natch.
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I teach at a community college (we were asked to watch it by the school) and I consider it okay. I found some quite funny individual moments in each of the first two episodes but I also found a number of elements that fell flat. I'll give it a few more episodes to round into form but in terms of "laughs per minute watched", I find The Big Bang Theory a lot funnier.
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Two episodes in and I'm still not digging this show. I'm gonna give it a couple more chances, but if I don't start enjoying it a lot more I think I'll be deleting it from my season pass.
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I love this show! Yesterdays episode had me LOL'ing quite a bit. Unfortunately it's on during Flash Forward and Fringe so I'm having to Hulu it.
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"Hey, Troy sneezes like a girl!"
"And how about I pound you like a boy! That didn't come out right."
"Why are you dressed like an '80s rapist?"
Second week in a row that I howled over Community after a tepid The Office. Too bad the scene with the desk collapsing under the girl was in the promos -- it was still pretty funny, but I think I might have cried with laughter if I hadn't seen it before.
That end scene where the Accounting(!) professor exalts, "Day Seized!" and then proceeds to click his heels and climb a tree left my wife and I in fits.
I have to rewind a lot because we miss some of the lines as we're still laughing over the last gag. It's not quite Arrested Development, but it's still damn good.
Hey Gleeks, that was Principal Figgins as Abed's father. My two favorite new shows connecting like that. How touching.
I haven't laughed this much at Chevy Chase in years.
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This episode was more funny than not (along with developing that whole "college being a place to experiment with following one's bliss in studies" idea), plus it was worth it just for the short crump bit at the end.
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They finally broke me down when Tattelina got Von to take off his shirt so she could make the hamster nipple gestures. <== that this show got me to type that sentence makes this show funny to me.
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Gillian Jacobs is my current fav on TV.