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  There's a break next week! Last Week at Greendale: An increasingly-overplayed documentary gag showed us the struggles of curing Changnesia; Jeff sexually assaulted a woman; this thread had an in-depth and nuanced talk on the depiction of racism in popular culture. This Week's Curriculum: Economics of Marine Biology Jeff, Britta and Annie help Dean Pelton recruit a wealthy potential student; Abed starts a fraternity; Troy and Shirley attend a physical education class. (zap2it)                Greendale Faculty:  (Note: Professor Duncan is still on administrative leave in New York) Presenting Greendale's Wonderful Dean!  Donate Today and Help Cure:  (This OP brought to you by the New Radicals)
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I have no idea if thats chang or not, but what the hell
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Thank god, I thought there was a two week break.MrAristocrates posted:Troy and Shirley attend a physical education class.
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I hear we'll be seeing some more of the side characters tonight, which is always good.
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I had caught up a bit a few weeks back. I had watched up through the Inspector Spacetime episode. I thought that episode was pretty good but it felt like the first two episodes of this season were a shallow immitation of themselves. How were episodes 404-406?
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MrAristocrates posted:
Clickable spoiler images, how did we ever live without you?
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Mordiceius posted:I had caught up a bit a few weeks back. I had watched up through the Inspector Spacetime episode. I thought that episode was pretty good but it felt like the first two episodes of this season were a shallow immitation of themselves. How were episodes 404-406? Better, but still clearly a step down from seasons 1-3. If you go in expecting Classic Community you will be disappointed. If you go in expecting something on the level of New Girl or The Mindy Project, you might end up enjoying them.
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Irish Joe posted:Better, but still clearly a step down from seasons 1-3. If you go in expecting Classic Community you will be disappointed. If you go in expecting something on the level of New Girl, you might end up enjoying them. How does it feel to have the stupidest opinion in all the community threads?  New Girl is a much better show than Community's third and fourth season, it's definitely funnier than most of the first season and certainly rivals the highs of the second season.
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Twee as gently caress posted:New Girl is a much better show than Community's third and fourth season, it's definitely funnier than most of the first season and certainly rivals the highs of the second season. I'm sorry, but there's nothing funny about New Girl. Whatever fresh voice New Girl brought to the table last season was thrown out and now the show is just a half hour of adults yelling random things, making faces and acting like children. I understand why it appeals to people who yearn for that kind of arrested development, but I need more from my comedies. Jokes, for example.
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I'd have to say that Community on average this year has come in third humor-wise behind New Girl and The Following. Note: I'm not even kidding.
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Twee as gently caress posted:Good for you Chevy for making all that money and I hope this goes in syndication so you keep getting nice checks off the back of those hacks. Twee as gently caress posted:How does it feel to have the stupidest opinion in all the community threads?
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The official twitter is hinting that (minorest of minor spoilers but someone will complain if it's not tagged) Magnitude is going to be in this episode. 
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Do you really want to do this again, MrAristocrates? Because I'm game, but I'm not sure you want the thread to go in that direction. A quick edit might be a good idea, just saying. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Twee as gently caress posted:Do you really want to do this again, MrAristocrates? Because I'm game, but I'm not sure you want the thread to go in that direction. A quick edit might be a good idea, just saying. Holy poo poo you actually played internet tough guy. In TVIV. In the Community thread. Also just fyi all of your posts so far have been worthless reductionary inflammatory garbage that makes threads worse, I would quit when you're only slightly behind
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Twee as gently caress posted:How does it feel to have the stupidest opinion in all the community threads? This is my opinion right now. I started watching New Girl half way through Season 1 and it quickly skyrocketed to my favorite comedy on TV.
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MrAristocrates just cracked open the Arc of the Chevynant. And we're all gonna melt like a bunch of dumb Nazis.
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Victor Vermis posted:MrAristocrates just cracked open the Arc of the Chevynant.
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Occupation posted:Holy poo poo you actually played internet tough guy. In TVIV. In the Community thread. What?  I asked him if he really wanted to open the 'Chevy was right! Chevy was wrong! Chevy is an rear end in a top hat! All of those! box, not if he wanted to fight behind the bike rack, how on earth would you get that from my posts? Thanks for being such an rear end in a top hat about it and getting personal though, really upping the ante here. Let's all loving drop this and talk about upcoming guest star Magnitude Hopefully they don't run that into the ground as well Twee as Fuck fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2013 around 20:30 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:Oh, is this thread the claymation episode?  Twee as gently caress posted:Let's all loving drop this and talk about upcoming guest star Magnitude Not sure that you can run that character into the ground, he's the embodiment of depth and presents infinite storytelling possibilities. Abed and Magnitude get lost at the mall, Go. Magnitude, Shirley and Pierce mistake a nursing home for a spa, Go. Magnitude and Magnitude Pop Pop, POP POP. POP POP Victor Vermis fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2013 around 20:55 |
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Occupation posted:In TVIV. In the Community thread. Speaking of, this whole shitstorm started because someone took a cheap shot at New Girl, a show that is pretty well regarded on these forums. So maybe to avoid this kind of crap derail we can just try to avoid needlessly making GBS threads on other shows in a forum full of passionate TV watchers? Or something??
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Guy A. Person posted:Speaking of, this whole shitstorm started because someone took a cheap shot at New Girl, a show that is pretty well regarded on these forums. So maybe to avoid this kind of crap derail we can just try to avoid needlessly making GBS threads on other shows in a forum full of passionate TV watchers? Or something?? That's kinda all that goes on in this thread.
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Guy A. Person posted:Speaking of, this whole shitstorm started because someone took a cheap shot at New Girl, a show that is pretty well regarded on these forums. So maybe to avoid this kind of crap derail we can just try to avoid needlessly making GBS threads on other shows in a forum full of passionate TV watchers? Or something?? Heck, it's not like I literally think that this is the worst opinion ever posted in the community threads, I used hyperbole (as the colbert showed) to drive my point that New Girl is a really funny show and that this was a cheap shot. I certainly didn't expect things to take an actual turn toward the venomous. That's why I suggested the edit so this thread didn't turn into another flamewar about chevy, since I feel guilty that I kickstarted the last one. Let's just all chill, sing some karaoke and everything will be fine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnT7FN92hTA 
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Twee as gently caress posted:Let's just all chill, sing some karaoke and everything will be fine. Still my favourite Community moment.
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Genetic Toaster posted:Still my favourite Community moment. Yeah this was definitely a highlight of that season for me (outside of the obvious CRT episode) Also am I the only one thinking that at this point, the Glee episode would have made the best series finale? Outside of Digital Estate Planning (definitely in my top 5 of Community) and Basic Lupine Urology, I can't even remember off-hand anyhing from the backk-end of Season 3, aside of the chang arc/dreamatorium episode. The Glee episode, on the other hand, was absolutely loving phenomenal.
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The Glee episode was not much more than an incredibly lazy parody. Like, there's so much about Glee to make fun of, and that's the best they came up with?
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precision posted:The Glee episode was not much more than an incredibly lazy parody. How was it a parody/mocking Glee? They just literally made a Glee episode within the community episode. If anything it's closer to Buffy's musical episode than anything else.
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Twee as gently caress posted:How was it a parody/mocking Glee? How was it not? I'll admit I don't remember it very well, I just remember "what the gently caress is Regionals" was said a lot and the general tone was "haha isn't Glee stupid". Glee is (or was, I gave up on it) a show about unpopular people getting poo poo on. The cast of Glee were to the rest of the school as the show Community was to the rest of television. So from first conception it's kind of rear end-backwards. It came off as petty. And then add in that the overlap between what I would perceive as the core Community audience and the core Glee audience is really small - of course Community can make fun of Glee. Dan Harmon really wanted to make fun of any one specific show, and it was about as safe a target as he could have picked. Now, if there had been an explicit Big Bang Theory parody or something of that nature, that would at least have been kinda brave to do. Watching the Glee episode just made me think of a bunch of Community superfans chuckling smugly about how dumb a show they've never even watched is. Maybe I'm overthinking things!
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precision posted:The Glee episode was not much more than an incredibly lazy parody. What made it lazy, the original songs, the vocal work, the choreography, the ominous outros? Do you feel the same way about Basic Lupine Urology?
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precision posted:How was it not? Because the songs, choreography and the story were pretty tightly written and was in fact a much better Glee episode than Glee has been since the first 13 episodes. They weren't mocking the show as much as having fun with the musical format, the same way that the paintball episode was a love letter to action movies, a lot of which happen to be bad. And I still don't know what the gently caress regionals are so I'll admit I don't remember it very well, I just remember "what the gently caress is Regionals" was said a lot and the general tone was "haha isn't Glee stupid". Also, as far as I'm aware, the Glee and Community shows shared a couple of sets or lots and they were pretty friendly with each others. I think the only show that Harmon truly hated was BBT and just ignored it for the most part.
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ETB posted:What made it lazy, the original songs, the vocal work, the choreography, the ominous outros? Do you feel the same way about Basic Lupine Urology? It was not funny, and certainly not a fitting final episode to the series.
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Glee episode rules. That prior 20 second gag was a better Glee parody (really how do you top wheelchair Pierce's jig), but the episode was your standard musical episode based on a premise about Glee-club mixed with a dash of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. To call it a failed parody sort of misses the goal. Aside from all the great songs, there were a bunch of jokes that really hit--the initial "cease and desist" madness, Jeff's Donald Sutherland impression, Britta's amazing tree dance. All this talk about final episode is nonsense though.
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Transmodiar posted:Maybe that it tried (and failed) in 22 minutes to tell the same joke we saw in 26 seconds during "Paradigms of Human Memory" or the better, five-second version we saw at the end of "Basic Genealogy." That's basically how I generally feel about season 4 with reference to previous seasons, with exception to the Inspectocon episode.
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Aside from all the great songs, there were a bunch of jokes that really hit--the initial "cease and desist" madness, Jeff's Donald Sutherland impression, Britta's amazing tree dance. I mean, how can you not laugh at 'R-R-Remix!' and the ensuing stabbing and screaming. I just lost it so hard.
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Twee as gently caress posted:I mean, how can you not laugh at 'R-R-Remix!' and the ensuing stabbing and screaming. I just lost it so hard. Fake butter and AIDS and... Twin Peaks!
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Arrested for selling marijuana to a police officer. At a police station. Edit: Splingles? Not this guy!
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Springles? Not this guy!
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Ok pretty strong start so far 80% of classes at least twice and paid for a premium locker
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