Community: Season 3 thread - Page 4

"I wish there was a word to describe the pleasure I feel at viewing misfortune."

Seriously, name me a show that does a joke like that. There have to be, like, five different variables in place for someone to actually get this.

So good. There have, in fact, been good Shirley episodes and moments, but she's the least geek-friendly character on the show, so she tends to get overshadowed. This kind of episode is exactly why shows should push at things that seem like they're not working.

Something that I missed that was pointed out in the AV Club's comments: when Troy leaves his sheet fort, humming his little song...and "locks" the sheet behind him.

Also, how is this NOT everyone's avatar by now...??



(The cat should have been wearing a monocle, though. Serious missed opportunity.)

Dear God, did something happen in this episode? All I can remember is Brie and Jacobs, and my head exploding about a thousand times.

New Rule™ (with apologies to Bill Maher): Gillian Jacobs has to wear that unitard in every single episode from here on out. Watching this episode was like having Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs enter into a sexy tug-of-war...with my penis. Britta in that tree-outfit. Jesus Christ. Holy shit.

"MAYBE THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER BUS CRASH!!!"

No exaggeration, that's the hardest I've laughed all year. I will bathe in NBC's blood if this show does not both return, and then have another season.

Troy's Dylanesque '60s-voice was fantastic. Also: "This guy is like human froyo."

"What's a diminuhnuhnuhnuh?" made me pause the DVR, I was laughing so hard.

The highlight, though, had to be the "bump" at the end, with the Dean, Chang, and the others, and Chang's ornament getting clawed/molested by the monkey-paw.

If you weren't already in love with Alison Brie, I don't see how you could not be after that musical number. Brie has officially driven a stake right through Madonna's "Santa Baby," now and forever. And yeah, she was totally riffing on Lea Michele's singing style at the same time. This episode fired all cylinders so hard, the engine exploded.

Oh...there's definitely dislike going on, here. Just Google, "Dan Harmon Hates Glee" for more info.

Here's a response Harmon posted on Reddit last year, re: the final fate of Greendale's original glee-club (alluded to slightly differently last night, which just shows how far in advance some of these storylines are conceptualized/stored away):

I loved the Dean's disappointed, "...Aw, Britta's in this."

"Fake butter, AIDS, and Twin Peaks" had me laughing so hard, I had to pause the episode. Nothing speaks more to the talent of the performers and writers and director than the two musical numbers done by Troy and Abed. Completely different in style, and yet both note-perfect and hysterical.

Also, 1.5 in the overnights. So...that sucks.

For those who don't follow Twitter, earlier today from Dan Harmon:


This show brings out the elitist asshole in me. I might as well embrace this fact, and just stew in my contempt of the mouth-breathing masses, the shallow-minded, superficial morons who queue up every week to be stuffed with repetitive, predictable, pandering tripe, while leaving one of the greatest comedies of all time floundering on the precipice of cancellation.

Fuck you. I hope you die like the dogs you are.

Whoa, dude...hold on a minute. "Old"?

It's been probably over a year (or longer) since I've made any type of disparaging comment about either of those shows you mention. I think I've been on my best behavior, here, and you're reading way too much into things. Too, I never mentioned BBT in my post, nor was I even thinking about it specifically (as far as I can remember) when I typed it.

It's simply the fact that Community finally devoted an entire episode to accurately showing us why Glee doesn't work creatively (IMO) that I finally even said anything again. Frankly, to not have made the inevitable personal opinion-comparison (I respect anyone who likes Glee, for the record) would've been the odd behavior, given the situation and the plot of the episode currently under discussion.


I was wondering recently:

Would this show have done as well or better in a different broadcast climate? Like '90s NBC. Or on FX? Virtually all of my favorite comedies are now coming from non-broadcast-network places. I don't want this show to go away, and I've talked it up as much as possible to the point my friends are either onboard, or no longer my friends.

'90s NBC would have made the show a hit, but it would never have been made then, and outside of HBO (which just doesn't do sitcom -- maybe their new Veep will change that), nothing other than U.S. network TV could afford to make the show. Not just in terms of scope, but also the cast -- you'd only be able to have about half the number of regulars and supporting characters that the show now boasts.

If Community never comes back (it will, if only because NBC sucks at so hard at so much else), it ended on a perfect note: by making me desperately want to have sex with foliage and particularly-unintelligent babies. I haven't wanted to plug my penis into a tree this bad since Avatar.

Holy shit, Josh...you're taking this way too personally. Like, what the hell? (And why the Skyrim-swipe? I play the game, sure, when I have a spare moment.)

For the record, I was thinking more about Whitney, The X Factor, and most of the other fly-by-night sitcoms which more often than not are cancelled, but which still sometimes manage to pull larger numbers than Community during their quick runs. I don't expect you to believe it, but Big Bang isn't the first thing that always comes to mind when I make posts like this. Sometimes, yes, but not then.

Yeah, so I forgot about that quick, one-off-and-completely-dismissed Big Bang remark -- I own up to it, but I don't apologize for it either. This is a discussion forum, where a person can theoretically say, "[a show] is shit," without directly impugning any one specific person in the process.

Which is what I did, there. You don't like it, fine, but I can still speak my mind about a show, and even -- gods forbid -- call it crap once a year, without naming a single poster in this forum in the process. And as Jeff Winger (and Ryan Murphy) both put it, to imply otherwise is reverse-bullying.

I never had any personal vendetta against you, Josh -- in fact, I think you're one of the most thoughtful posters in here most of the time, and I'm honestly confused as to why you're taking this tone right now. None of that was actually aimed in your direction.
Edited by joshEH - 12/12/11 at 11:52am

I will immediately contact my governor or district leader, if only so that people can start dying again.

Community makes honey, people.

Also:

Community to pay homage to/spoof Law & Order:


...Omar is back.

And some more tidbits about upcoming episodes here.

Including an escalating, full-scale, all-school blanket-fort war.

OH MY GOD I MISS THIS SHOW PLEASE COME BACK NOW OK PLEASE OK??

One more thing:

"The Indoor Kids" podcast from Nerdist.com, where Dan Harmon basically talks about nothing but Skyrim for an hour-and-a-half.

I'm having this man's baby. Don't ask me; we'll figure it out somehow.