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I liked when the hippie guy said "This is the least tight thing that's ever happened to me."

Yeah it's hard to feel bad for someone who's had such an apparently carefree life.

It was also funny when Pierce's spying netted him, "Britta's switching to green tea!"  And the others say, "Ahh, that's nice.  It's good for her skin."

The Friends reference where Abed compares his relationship to Annie like Chandler and Phoebe was funny enough, but I lost it when he called her Chandler.

I didn't actually like this episode as much as the others, mostly because they spent too much time with Britta.  She has no personality compared to the rest of the cast and I felt it was a mistake to make you feel bad for Jeff -- the way they filmed it, it appears Jeff is in love with Britta and is hurt by her liaison with the hacky-sacker.  Jeff isn't supposed to be in love with anyone but himself.  I only buy his courtship in the context that he's wants something he can't have, but it should never be confused with real feelings.  And BTW, Annie is more attractive than Britta anyways.

They're going to have to give Britta a character trait infusion soon, because she's quickly becoming the least appealing member of the cast.  Funny, I thought that would have been Troy, but he's actually doing a lot with the little they give him, especially those end credit sequences with Abed.

Kind of a half-baked episode.  Not terrible, but not up to the usual standards.  At least I got my

Maybe the show has just grown on me but I thought this was easily the best episode so far.

 The beginning had a different pace and rhythm than the show usually has, which started making me think this was cobbled together from bits of an unaired pilot.  The ending came back to what I was used to.

Kudos to the guy who plays Troy -- it would have been so easy to get lost in the background, but the way he delivered his rant about why Abed could not "get" him was hilarious in its delivery.  In fact, the whole Troy & Abed chemistry is a huge part of what makes the show click.

Had I been drinking milk, it would have shot out of my nose when Chevy Chase was playing his cribbed jingle on the piano.  When he yelled out, "AT THE PICNIC", I had to pause the DVR while I L'dMAO for five minutes.  BTW, the lyrics for the school song were amusing in their absurdity.

I sort of expected Luis Guzman to make a cameo, but since he didn't and they unveiled an honest to goodness statue in his honor, this gets the official award for "Most Random Celeb Name Drop of the Week".  

I wish they could do them a couple of seconds earlier as the ends of them always get cut off for me.

Another Jeff Zucker "innovation"... IIRC, it used to be 5 minutes off.

Fortunately I DVR all the NBC Thursday comedies (not Jay Leno, but I said "comedies") but I still miss about five seconds of the credits gag in each show. Lame.

Anyway, I absolutely love this show; best start to a new sitcom in a long time. The professor telling the Mark David Chapman lookalike, "Fine, go kill John Lennon again, you loser!" was the hardest I've laughed at a sitcom since Michael Scott signed up for an online dating service as "LittleKidLover."

I love this show!  There has not been one episode yet that I haven't liked or thought was just "meh".

That was the funniest thing ever.  Best episode yet!  "If I had all this to work with, she'd be at the Comfort Inn giving me the Mexican Halloween."  I had to pause it right there to recover.  "Why is Urkel ripping off the professor's antenna?"    Wall to wall hilarity.

Troy was suppose to be Eddie Murphy Raw right?
I liked Chevy Chase as Beastmaster.

Best episode yet!  I love this show.  I was LOL'ing for most of it.  And "Mexican Halloween"?! I lost it right there.

This has got to be the most impressive launch of any show since Arrested Development.  Seven shows and not a clunker in the bunch.  Aside from some growing pains in the first half of the pilot, this has been an assured and consistently funny series that's regularly been the best show on Thursday night.  That's no mean feat for a rookie series much less one in competition with The Office and 30 Rock.  Another impressive feat is the ability to spotlight every single character in the series, something that hit shows aren't able to accomplish seasons into their runs.  When you have larger ensemble casts like this on a half hour sitcom, you figure a couple will eventually end up with one or two lines an episode and then gradually get phased out.  But they've been able to cultivate each cast member even as Danny Pudy breaks out, Chevy Chase has a career renaissance, and Joel McHale get's his headliner share of screen time.  Even Britta, whom I was dogging earlier in this thread has found her groove.  And then they throw in ancillary characters like Senor Chang, Dean Moby, the English Professor and even Starburns.

This is easily the best new show of the season.  Bar none.  When I watch it, I LOL so much I'm constantly rewinding to catch the jokes I missed. 

I laugh just reading the word Starburns, especially in italics.  It's got to be a good show for me to be hooked because I general don't watch comedies.

I was laughing hard again at this show...and when Chevy Chase was having his trip (and the makers using that attached camera) I bust out laughing. Bloody hilarious....so, so good.

This has already emerged as my favorite of the NBC Thursday shows. 30 Rock and The Office have past (and semi-frequent current) greatness going for them, but as far as the current seasons go, Community is the one I look forward to the most and save to watch last each week.

To go along with what Hanson said, I love that, seven episodes into the series, we've already explored the relationships between nearly every possible pair in the study group.

It's definitely fun seeing Alison Brie do more than pout and pine in '60s period clothing.

"Raw" was purple leather, "Delirious" (his first stand-up special on HBO) was the red leather.

I definitely echo what others said earlier. This show is funny and great, and glad to hear that it got picked up for a full season.

Pierce, Pierce, Pierce!
Pierce, you're a B!

I almost choked to death on that ride out.  Also, when the Polish guy started singing, "I'm getting rid of Britta, getting rid of the B!"  This show's so good, it's almost worth blowing off one of my following hour recordings just so I could get the last few seconds of the tag scene.  Vaughn showed up and it cut off. 

I don't usually buy current shows on DVD/Blu-Ray, but I'm already waiting for this one.  I always say I'm not big on comedies, but maybe I'm starved for them because the last show I responded this strongly to was the ill-fated The Unusuals.

Haven't mentioned it in a while, so: that Britta is so darn cute (I know I'm testing Hanson's patience, but I forget about her during the week and am pleasantly surprised every time ).  Every single main character is gold.

Oh, speaking of which--awesome guest cast news:

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Edited by Greg_S_H - 11/6/09 at 2:49am

You missed maybe 5 seconds. I think he said something to the effect of "It's on, Pierce" and that was the end.

Funny episode. Much like Jeff and Abed, me and my friends would stay up all night watching TV in college. Although we watched Twin Peaks or The X-Files rather than Knight Rider.

 It finally dawned on me last night who Allison Brie reminds me of -- it had been slowly coalescing in the back of my brain for the past few weeks, and it finally crystallized last night -- Allison is an attractive version of Allyson Hannigan*!  I can totally picture Allison as Willow in an alternate reality cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It's like they came from the same acting school (or perhaps womb).

Troy's line about Allison perhaps being confused because "Randy is a boy or girl's name" was hilarious.  I didn't get it at first, so it was a way homer.

All three songs were infantile and worthy of rewinding.  There's nothing like being cleverly infantile -- it's like the best of both comedy worlds.

Greg, if you love Britta so much, choke.   That is, rent the Sam Rockwell movie Choke.  And yes, the entire Community cast is awesome.  I haven't laughed this much at Chevy Chase since... um... Caddyshack?  I know Fletch is a cult classic, but that movie never did anything for me.  I do have this nostalgic attachment to Modern Problems, as I saw in the theaters as a wee lad.  But Chevy was like a gambler on a losing streak with regard to funny -- a twenty some-odd year losing streak.  His facial reactions playing the keyboard were... is there another word to use instead of "hilarious"?  I think I've used that word a bajillion times in this thread.  But yeah, hilarious (I think the bolding helps differentiate it a bit).

Man, Vaughn has really tiny nipples.  Is that make-up or did they purposefully cast a small nippled man for the role?


*as noted in the HIMYM thread, I do not find Allyson Hannigan "hot" or even all that attractive.  Sorry if that offends you.