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Also posting "I think this is encouraging rape culture but I get the last word on it and also anyone who disagrees with me is part of rape culture" is the Absolute Worst Sort of Posting
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CPColin posted:That line about protesting the wrong Korea sounded really familiar and I'm ashamed I can't remember where I know it from. It was in the preview promo they put out in December.
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frogbs posted:I don't understand how anyone who likes Community at all could hate this episode, yet most commenters elsewhere seem to have not enjoyed it. Weird! If you know enough about this show to know about all the behind the scenes poo poo going on with Harmon then it's fairly easy to look at this as a return to real actual Community. With that comes all of the whiny nerd bullshit that comes with a long hiatus/cancellation including critically analyzing every frame of the loving thing and comparing it to the show's best episodes in its peak years. But even without that, season 4 tends to leave a really bad taste in peoples' mouths and you're not going to be able to win everyone back. Shakugan posted:Am I the only one who found this episode with it's treatment of the rear end-crack bandit as analogous to sexual harassment to be really distasteful? I'm sure I'll get a bunch of people jumping on me for "not having a sense of humour", "community is a tv show", "parody", etc etc, but those are the kinds of responses that are typically involved with rape culture, so it's expected. Fart fart fart you're a shitposter. Fart fart. Edit:  Occupation
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Jan 10, 2014 07:20
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Sort of odd that that one Dave joke was pretty close to "You like Phil Collins? I have two ears and a heart, don't I?" line from 30 Rock. Wonder if Glover wrote both of them. 
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Jan 10, 2014 07:26
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Chairman Mao posted:But even without that, season 4 tends to leave a really bad taste in peoples' mouths and you're not going to be able to win everyone back. I'm glad I skipped season 4. Watching this new season I don't feel like I missed much, except a gas leak.
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Jan 10, 2014 07:48
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Lord Krangdar posted:I'm glad I skipped season 4. Watching this new season I don't feel like I missed much, except a gas leak. You're really better off not watching it. Nothing of any import happens and it just comes off as lifeless and fake. Like the uncanny valley of TV shows.
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Jan 10, 2014 07:51
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Hate to be that guy, but I thought this was the weakest episode so far. It wasn't bad, but it didn't really do anything for me. It definitely referenced movies pretty well, but it didn't really do anything with them. The jokes weren't super funny. Still better than season 4 though. Low season 3 quality. I wish they'd set up Pierce being banned from campus in the repilot too.
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Jan 10, 2014 07:59
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VagueRant posted:I wish they'd set up Pierce being banned from campus in the repilot too. They did. He was banned for sexual harassment and had to pay for a wing of the school and that hologram as settlement.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:02
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Episode was okay but everything involving music was loving golden. Shirley's boys singing "Creep", the intro credits, the Tom Waits/Nick Cave tribute about buttcracks, five seconds of "Adagio For Strings" before facebook search finished, and of course all the stuff about Dave Matthews. Also somehow Shirley is starting to become my favorite character. Her nonverbal acting has been excellent, just check out her lip-synching to creep.
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Jan 10, 2014 08:28
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Occupation posted:Also posting "I think this is encouraging rape culture but I get the last word on it and also anyone who disagrees with me is part of rape culture" is the majority of what you find on tumblr
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Jan 10, 2014 08:35
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VagueRant posted:Hate to be that guy, But you're just gonna power on through it anyway. EvilTobaccoExec posted:the Tom Waits/Nick Cave tribute about buttcracks, Where was this?
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Capn Beeb posted:But you're just gonna power on through it anyway. Neil plays it over the radio "red right hand" style during a brief montage of how rear end-crack-fevor is affecting the campus, and a different part plays during the other montage of everyone after Pierce dies. I probably should have phrased it as "the tribute to Nick Cave/Tom Waits about buttcracks".
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Apparently Annie promised to stop the rear end crack bandit way back in season 2's election episode. (And Reddit thinks ACB is Pierce.  They also normalised the pitch of the voice message - it just sounds like some generic guy. But some think it sounds like Todd.)
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Jan 10, 2014 08:56
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My 2 most recent compositions- Concerto For Piano/Orchestra & a song called rear end Crack Bandit for #NBCCommunity airs 2nite! #proud https://twitter.com/BenFolds/status/421393945935896576
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Jan 10, 2014 09:00
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I found a Starbucks that still had Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas free episode downloads, and I picked up an extra. Here's the code: 6KM9L4A3ARK4
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Jan 10, 2014 09:01
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Episode was okay but everything involving music was loving golden. Shirley's boys singing "Creep", the intro credits, the Tom Waits/Nick Cave tribute about buttcracks, five seconds of "Adagio For Strings" before facebook search finished, and of course all the stuff about Dave Matthews. Ben Folds as the Professor with the ElwoodCuse posted:My 2 most recent compositions- Concerto For Piano/Orchestra & a song called rear end Crack Bandit for #NBCCommunity airs 2nite! #proud oh poo poo he wrote songs for it too? Pyronic fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:Neil plays it over the radio "red right hand" style during a brief montage of how rear end-crack-fevor is affecting the campus, and a different part plays during the other montage of everyone after Pierce dies. Ahh, there was something familiar about that sequence  VagueRant posted:But some think it sounds like Todd.) If they come back I seriously hope it isn't Todd, that guy is terrible. And with this season apparently having the Tim and Eric dipshits, that niche is already spoken for.
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Pyronic posted:Ben Folds as the Professor with the Salvia plant. Sativa, it was weed.
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I could not be happier about how this season is going so far, it really is like it got a second wind. I had been avoiding spoilers, so I watched the last few minutes of the episode with my jaw on the floor and marvelling in how they brought it all together at the end. This show has no business being on network television and I love it for that.
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New behind-the-scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSwWd_UbL4
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Jan 10, 2014 09:19
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I thought the Bandit was Jeff and he was only doing it in order to team up with Annie (But he probably wasn't the original guy because that'd be weird).
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Jan 10, 2014 09:34
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ashpanash posted:New behind-the-scenes: God, the pistachio line and the tic line should have both been in the episode. Although this episode was stuffed to the brim of amazing one liners already so it's not a huge loss. Also I need the full version of the closing song as possible.
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Just saw the reviews for this episode, which were once more stellar. With NBC struggling like it is, what are the chances we get our 6th season (And a movie...) simply due to them giving up and trying to brand it as "Well, at least the critics love it!" ?
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Paxicon posted:Just saw the reviews for this episode, which were once more stellar. With NBC struggling like it is, what are the chances we get our 6th season (And a movie...) simply due to them giving up and trying to brand it as "Well, at least the critics love it!" ? If they can maintain a 1.3 against BBT, then the answer is, "probably, yeah." So the answer is likely no. But you never know. It IS NBC.
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ashpanash posted:If they can maintain a 1.3 against BBT, then the answer is, "probably, yeah." It's doing better than Sean, and MJ Fox show.
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ashpanash posted:New behind-the-scenes: From my recent rewatch, the main thing I noticed was Professor Duncan was a great character and season 3 felt weird without him. So glad to have him back here. Helps that the episode was solid overall. I thought it was interesting that they came up with the most ridiculous crisis possible and immediately juxtaposed it with the most serious and depressing event. They handled Pierce's death weirdly realistically; it came out of nowhere and just bulldozed over everything else that they were wrapped up in. Now his death will forever be associated with the asscrack bandit, and I'm not sure if that's hilarious or sad.
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CaptainHollywood posted:It's doing better than Sean, and MJ Fox show. Premieres are always high. Expect it to drop. I'll be surprised if it's over 1.0. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless. Sean and MJ are dead sitcoms walking, so they're nothing to compare it to. The real question is, will NBC wipe the slate clean? They could just do that. But if Community performs well enough against BBT, then it's better than anything else they could conceivably put in that timeslot.
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ashpanash posted:Premieres are always high. Expect it to drop. I'll be surprised if it's over 1.0. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nonetheless. Sean and MJ are dead sitcoms walking, so they're nothing to compare it to. I'm half expecting 13 episode "final seasons" for Community and Parks. Too optimistic?
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CaptainHollywood posted:I'm half expecting 13 episode "final seasons" for Community and Parks. Too optimistic? Probably. Odds are you're watching the final seasons right now.
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ashpanash posted:Probably. Odds are you're watching the final seasons right now. On any other network probably. But NBC is Greendale IRL so who knows.
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Shakugan posted:The troy covered in a blanket on a couch, then later giving a speech about it happening to him and others? I thought it was pretty blatantly alluding to sexual harassment. How disgusting are the dirty jokes being told in the breakroom where you work? Wool blankets and styrofoam coffee cups?
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So did they do a Fincher parody because that's what the lighting looks like this season anyway? Did anyone make that joke yet?
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ElwoodCuse posted:My 2 most recent compositions- Concerto For Piano/Orchestra & a song called rear end Crack Bandit for #NBCCommunity airs 2nite! #proud I read through this while I watched this morning and I was waiting to see how long it took people to recognize Ben Folds's voice. How did the cameo not tip you guys off? I want a full version of the asscrack bandit song so bad.
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I didn't really dig that episode overall. They nailed the tone and the colour grading was especially spot-on but it just felt like a lesser season 3 episode with less good jokes. and that Troy stuff did make me a little uncomfortable, but not enough to derail the ep or anything. I was hoping this season would be a little more grounded than 3, but I guess Harmon has no intention of that. Still super excited for next week!
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frogbs posted:I don't understand how anyone who likes Community at all could hate this episode, yet most commenters elsewhere seem to have not enjoyed it. Weird! I didn't hate it, but VagueRant posted:Hate to be that guy, but I thought this was the weakest episode so far. It wasn't bad, but it didn't really do anything for me. It definitely referenced movies pretty well, but it didn't really do anything with them. The jokes weren't super funny. Still better than season 4 though. Low season 3 quality. I agree with this sentiment. A lot of the jokes were purely stylistic, so if you aren't a fan of that sort of movie/specific Fincher ref (like myself, generally speaking) it was an episode full of winks and nods that just weren't aimed at you. Doesn't necessarily make it bad but there is a subset of people for whom this episode will just simply not work on a basic level. EvilTobaccoExec posted:Episode was okay but everything involving music was loving golden. Shirley's boys singing "Creep", the intro credits, the Tom Waits/Nick Cave tribute about buttcracks, five seconds of "Adagio For Strings" before facebook search finished, and of course all the stuff about Dave Matthews. I definitely agree with this though, in spite of the aforementioned. And Pudi's scene was the best. Carlton Banks Teller fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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I really like the running joke of Shirley genuinely misunderstanding and loving things that reference angels or god.
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I am the rear end Crack Bandit. Humans make better banks than piggies. Whenever I get more change at the store I can't wait to drop it down your butts.
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Irish Joe posted:I am the rear end Crack Bandit. Humans make better banks than piggies. Whenever I get more change at the store I can't wait to drop it down your butts. Way too many sentences.
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My favorite little detail of this episode was that one of the Asscrack Bandit's letters was based on the "Dear Boss" letter, which was possibly written by Jack the Ripper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Boss_letter
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