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People keep making GBS threads on the handpuppet episode, but I reached the GI Joe episode last night and... why? I totally forgot it existed. And oh my God they kept Jared Fogle in the penultimate episode of season 5.
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Dan Harmon is very much an 80's kid. They dropped a few Transformers jokes in the early seasons I recall.
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May 21, 2020 13:10
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I’m not a big fan of the GI Joe episode but it’s far better than the puppet episode
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May 21, 2020 13:48
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mcbexx posted:People keep making GBS threads on the handpuppet episode, but I reached the GI Joe episode last night and... why? Having just watched this one for the first time, I can report it definitely felt out of place with the rest of season 5. It elicited the same feeling of the puppet episode, just cheap nostalgia with no deeper purpose other than "member GI Joe?" Seemed like an earlier Abed script they decided to recast Jeff in because they're already done too many imaginary Abed episodes.
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May 21, 2020 14:34
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The GI Joe episode owns and gave Jeff some good character development.
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May 21, 2020 19:21
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I'm watching "contemporary american poultry" which is the goodfellas episode. I forgot all about the angle where Abed's job reference was spot on. Pierce pretends to be donald trump and he extols the virtues of Abed's chicken frying. Old racist (who loves fried crap)? Inspired choice in pierce/trump
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May 21, 2020 21:06
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"I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh for you, man!"
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May 21, 2020 21:21
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Protip for new viewers: Pay attention to the word Betelgeuse when it appears.
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May 22, 2020 00:44
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mcbexx posted:People keep making GBS threads on the handpuppet episode, but I reached the GI Joe episode last night and... why? The big problem with season 4 is that it goes out of it’s to spin it’s and be wacky while not accomplishing anything or moving the characters forward, or in the case of the puppet episode movie characters backward. (Shirley’s character sure did get put in a dumpster that episode) Dan Harmon is very good at taking high concept episodes and grounding them in human experiences and emotions. This something season 4 fails at repeatedly for its entire run. For instance Britta and Troy’s weird rear end romance where they can’t even communicate on a basic level then break up, which has no effect on either’s character and is never mentioned again. I also think part of Community’s success is that it’s the rare sitcom with a central theme which is stated by Troy in episode 2 “try to be happy where you’re at” which is a driving force for pretty much every character in the show. To that end I feel like season 6 can put people off because that’s where the show’s central theme changes to “accept reality for what is.” This is actually why I like RV Repair for what it is, the cast and writers throwing one last tantrum over not wanting to move on and desperately trying to have one last hurrah, but it’s already too late for that. By the time it’s over the show’s pretty much moved on and the audience is ready to too. Then finale happens where the left over corpse of the show limps on for one last gasp before it’s finally done. In any case this was a lot more words than I usually post, but I like this show a lot for what it was.
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May 22, 2020 06:45
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I think the finale is a perfect ending for everything that "Community" was, and a movie isn't such a hot idea.
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May 22, 2020 14:44
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both the chang movie episode and grifting 101 were strong good episodes, imo
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May 22, 2020 16:49
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:both the chang movie episode and grifting 101 were strong good episodes, imo
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May 22, 2020 20:50
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Season 6 gives me a weird feeling, like they're performing an extra set of episodes after hours. Trying out some last few jokes, some long end tags, and so forth, but they're not planning on doing any big changes, they're just playing with what they have left. Season 2 and 3 feel special because the show was getting into its groove. It felt like there could be some really solid character development going forward, with Jeff's dad, and between Annie and Jeff and Britta and Troy. Season 4 kinda threw all that out, and a Jeff and Annie romance wouldn't have been good anyway, but they could have done more with other developments. Season 4 is just such a tragedy for throwing a wrench in solid character arcs.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Grifting 101 is goofy as poo poo and probably my least favorite episode in Season 6 but it has some strong moments. I think Grifting 101 is a good example of an episode that would be better if it were 22 minutes. It’s funny enough (if nothing special) but definitely needs to be tighter.
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May 22, 2020 22:28
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Escobarbarian posted:I think Grifting 101 is a good example of an episode that would be better if it were 22 minutes. It’s funny enough (if nothing special) but definitely needs to be tighter.
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May 22, 2020 23:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifCU7WQ5ZA I just learned that Community did mini-episodes. It was a pleasant surprise to have fresh Community content to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmKvSHkquho Speaking of mini-episodes, I think a lot of people missed the literal Honda commercial they did with Abed and the Dean.
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May 23, 2020 13:23
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Ccs posted:Season 6 gives me a weird feeling, like they're performing an extra set of episodes after hours. Trying out some last few jokes, some long end tags, and so forth, but they're not planning on doing any big changes, they're just playing with what they have left. It's also shot very differently from the preceding seasons, odd angles and sort of warm filters used - which gives it another almost other-worldly feeling. I wanna say afterlife-ish, which might have been a conscious choice from Harmon to drive home the fact that this is the end, or it's past it's use-by date? Halfway through season six now, I do find the emails/hackers episode carries out the "we find out deeply personal things about each other" mission of the clunky puppet episode much better.
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DrDraxium posted:It's also shot very differently from the preceding seasons, odd angles and sort of warm filters used - which gives it another almost other-worldly feeling. I wanna say afterlife-ish, which might have been a conscious choice from Harmon to drive home the fact that this is the end, or it's past it's use-by date? Harmon says in the Season 6 commentaries (possibly episode 1) that it was a conscious decision to make the lighting appear more natural since their larger budget afforded them the opportunity to do so. He also said that they overlit basically every scene in, like, Season 5 because they couldn't really afford to take the time to reset all the lights for different camera angles.
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May 25, 2020 04:54
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That’s weird given that s5 has by far the dimmest lighting
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Escobarbarian posted:That’s weird given that s5 has by far the dimmest lighting Even if I didn't know every season by heart it is pretty easy to figure out which season a clip came from by lighting and "look" alone. Just like you can trace which 30 Rock season by Tracy Morgan's weight gain and loss.
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May 25, 2020 07:17
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Irrespective of this thread my wife and I started rewatching Community the other day, and I thought it was really funny that in Advanced Criminal Law Jeff compares himself to Alan Dershowitz. In the very next episode he starts putting the moves on Annie.
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May 25, 2020 17:44
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Outside of season 6, are the dvds/blu-rays the only way to watch this with commentaries?
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Never watched this show before but just watched it all in the course of 3 weeks, such a good and wholesome show. Here are some random comments. - I don't get why Troy and Britta were ever a thing really. Could've done without, it went absolutely nowhere. - I don't mind some Freaky Friday stuff but it went on too long and didn't really go well with Troy''s persona. - Hated the claymation and puppetry - But I enjoyed the GI Joe - The first paintball episode was absolute perfection - I liked Pierce as a character - Owen Wilson as the head of the popular group that was never mentioned before and will never be mentioned again was fun
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May 25, 2020 23:06
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There's a joke in the earlier seasons where the comment is made that if you slow down footage of two people interacting and play shmaltzy music over it, it looks like they have romantic tension using Jeff/Annie and then Pierce/Abed. It feels like the writers did that with Troy/Britta but felt like it was real.
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I wonder what people who didn’t watch the show when it aired think about the references to The Cape
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John F Bennett posted:Never watched this show before but just watched it all in the course of 3 weeks, such a good and wholesome show. Here are some random comments. The issue with the first 3 is all season 4s fault while Harmon was fired. Even if they had used those concepts they would’ve been better executed and he definitely would’ve gotten more out of the Troy/Britta relationship.
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May 26, 2020 01:55
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Dawgstar posted:There's a joke in the earlier seasons where the comment is made that if you slow down footage of two people interacting and play shmaltzy music over it, it looks like they have romantic tension using Jeff/Annie and then Pierce/Abed. It feels like the writers did that with Troy/Britta but felt like it was real. It was not a joke. They were planting Troy/Britta stuff all the way back in season 1. The earliest thing is in this drat webisode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifCU7WQ5ZA&t=110s I think Harmon has stated that they didn't even get the Jeff/Annie idea until they all watched the fan made video that it was then parodied in the clip show episode. Which then leads them to Troy/Britta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsBvqDwVqwc The bigger "start" to it was the Troy/Britta dance A-story from season 1, but you can see it slowly building in frequency and importance through season 2 and 3. Mixology Certification, Competitive Wine Tasting, Remedial Chaos Theory, Documentary Filmmaking: Redux...this doesn't come out of nowhere. The biggest problem is that the two-year buildup gets screwed over in just by being in season 4...the new showrunners didn't know what to do. I believe that the relationship probably would have ended in a blow-up, but just...would have been done better. That was the big problem with season 4 in the first place: they came in with the idea that "Community is this whacky, meta show that does parodies" and tried to play too hard into these ideas, instead of just...being itself.
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I just finished the whole run and realized that I had watched most of S6 as background noise when it originally On the other hand it now feels like it ended for real this time around, so I'm kinda bummed out now.
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Nobody seems to be mentioning Jonathan Banks, but I liked his character. Especially the episode where he and Annie had to fight the bureaucracy of the school. I also really loved the whole Troy and the airco cabal sub-plot that ran through the entire show. John Goodman was great in the role.
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May 26, 2020 11:44
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Jonathan Banks was great, yeah. I think he fit in just as well as Paget did in s6.
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He was interesting when interacting with individual members of the group but didn't bring much to the scene around the table, I think they didn't know what to do with an old guy who wasn't Pierce who would make some really off color joke and be kind of the villain of the group. Paget was really funny, especially when they make that meta joke about the IT lady. I knew she was in season 6 so it was weird seeing her in season 5 in a different role, and they then actually addressed it in the most Community way ever.
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"As an outsider who came in and nailed it," I love Paget Brewster I think Community season 4 would have been the high point of a lot - a LOT - of shows. But hearing the cast and creator hate on it so cruelly makes me feel bad for liking the Sophie B. Hawkins Dance so much.
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May 26, 2020 19:11
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movie pitch: the study group reunites on an island after each receives a mysterious invitation, And Then There Were None style. maybe Troy returns as a Count of Monte Cristo type
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Jai Guru Dave posted:"As an outsider who came in and nailed it," That one and the Troy/Britta breakup are usually seen as the "good ones" from season 4. Harmon was at least smart enough to bring back Alison Brie. edit: even if the initial premise of "Abed is a loser and can't find a date" was pretty debunked in S1 and S2 to the whole idea about needing to set him up was strange.
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May 27, 2020 00:57
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Jai Guru Dave posted:"As an outsider who came in and nailed it," I like that one and the haunted house episode.
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:movie pitch: the study group reunites on an island after each receives a mysterious invitation, And Then There Were None style. maybe Troy returns as a Count of Monte Cristo type this idea came to me in a dream: it's a new movie in the Scary Movie franchise but it's just a community movie.
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Dawgstar posted:There's a joke in the earlier seasons where the comment is made that if you slow down footage of two people interacting and play shmaltzy music over it, it looks like they have romantic tension using Jeff/Annie and then Pierce/Abed. It feels like the writers did that with Troy/Britta but felt like it was real. Turns out that doesn't make for interesting TV.
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GoutPatrol posted:That one and the Troy/Britta breakup are usually seen as the "good ones" from season 4. Harmon was at least smart enough to bring back Alison Brie. Brie Larson. And I agree! I wish she was in more episodes.
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I can't believe 2 persons called Brie starred in this show and they both made it big. What a time to be alive. I liked the Brie Larson character.
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Escobarbarian posted:Brie Larson. And I agree! I wish she was in more episodes. I never found the Captain Marvel character interesting and her weird behaviour in all the media surrounding it put me off. So I was pleasantly surprised for her to show up in Community and be a very likeable character.
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