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BrooklynBruiser posted:Honestly I've never been a huge fan of Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas. Regional Holiday Music is drastically better in basically every way. Not really, all the "music" is really bad and the episode is one really badly written Glee joke. 'WHAT'S REGIONALS!?!?!??!?!?"
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1st AD posted:Not really, all the "music" is really bad and the episode is one really badly written Glee joke. 'WHAT'S REGIONALS!?!?!??!?!?" So you're just going to pretend that the whole great bodysnatchers aspect of the episode doesn't exist?
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Dec 27, 2013 18:30
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"great" is not the word I would use to describe it
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BrooklynBruiser posted:Honestly I've never been a huge fan of Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas. Regional Holiday Music is drastically better in basically every way. Same. Haven't seen either episode in a long time, but I easily think back and remember all the parts I liked about Regional Holiday Music and most songs/shifts in the episode. Abed's Christmas just isn't all that memorable aside from the gimmick (well, and the clay characters like Teddy pierce or Jeff in the Box). Plus the funniest joke ABC gave us wasn't even in that episode.... it was the clip show's recollection of Jeff's stoic disinterest with everyone pretending to be made of clay.
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1st AD posted:Not really, all the "music" is really bad and the episode is one really badly written Glee joke. 'WHAT'S REGIONALS!?!?!??!?!?" If you don't love Baby Boomer Santa, you're dead inside. e: And Taran Killam was -excellent-. BrooklynBruiser fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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Dec 27, 2013 19:06
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Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas is warm, funny, and great overall. Easily the best Community Christmas episode. I. M. H. O.
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Dec 27, 2013 19:40
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Last Chance posted:Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas is warm, funny, and great overall. Easily the best Community Christmas episode. 100% agreed. Regional Holiday Music is a very funny episode, but it's honestly third in my Community Christmas episode rankings because the two that preceded it both make me tear up (plus the first season Christmas episode is one of the funniest of that year).
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Dec 27, 2013 21:15
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It's always funny when people arguing about which piece of art is objectively better and why (and don't get me wrong. I do it.), but it's doubly funny when it's about Christmas specials.
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Dec 27, 2013 22:33
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Shirley's "Baby what? What the hell??" alone makes Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas amazing.
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But which Halloween episode is the best? Despite played out zombie plot, it's certainly season 2's in my opinion thanks to ABBA and George Takei.
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Dec 28, 2013 00:31
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Zombie Jeff smashing the blackberry is one of the funniest bits in the whole show IMO.
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I think Epidemiology had a better story and was more clever, but Seven Spooky Steps made me laugh out loud more, even though it's probably the weakest of the three. Statistics was one of the first episodes to really show Community's freak flag, which gives it a special place in my heart. It's a tough choice. I'll go 2 > 1 > 3 as episodes of TV, and 3 > 2 > 1 as my personal enjoyment of them. But they all have their merits.
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Dec 28, 2013 00:36
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The best Halloween bit in Community is the outtakes from Season 1 where Donald Glover ad-libs questions to ask Batman.
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Dec 28, 2013 00:39
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The zombie episode is too fantastic for my tastes and the short stories one has a weak premise. Season 1's is my favorite by default, but that being said, I don't think Community has done a great Halloween episode like it has done two and a half great Christmas episodes.
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Dec 28, 2013 00:42
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I just can't believe that a Community haunted house episode written by the Ganz ended up so disappointing. Oh well! In case anyone is really, really curious and doesn't care about major spoilers, the episode description for 504 has been released and begins with "after Pierce's untimely passing..." still, it happened to Starburns
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Dec 28, 2013 15:20
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Ludwig Gorannson (the show's composer) released a medley of tunes that wasn't on the original soundtrack. (He still has yet to release the tunes from Fistful of Paintballs though!) It is both awesome, uplifting and amazingly nostalgic. (for something that is 4 years old) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzdJFyHM5cc This show. 
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In Dan Harmon news, Dan Harmon got engaged to his girlfriend today. Good for him. 
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VagueRant posted:Ludwig Gorannson (the show's composer) released a medley of tunes that wasn't on the original soundtrack. (He still has yet to release the tunes from Fistful of Paintballs though!) It is both awesome, uplifting and amazingly nostalgic. (for something that is 4 years old) Season 1 music, best music.
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VagueRant posted:Ludwig Gorannson (the show's composer) released a medley of tunes that wasn't on the original soundtrack. (He still has yet to release the tunes from Fistful of Paintballs though!) It is both awesome, uplifting and amazingly nostalgic. (for something that is 4 years old) Senor Tron posted:Season 1 music, best music. I don't know man, season 3 had Starburns' memorial video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGeWA-5pVs
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Dec 29, 2013 02:07
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Can you fix these in the OP 3<2<1<4 2<1<3<4 Both of these statements say 4 is the best. Hopefully this isn't what you really mean.
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crm posted:Can you fix these in the OP Gah! I'll fix that, there's a formatting bug for ampersands and the less than/greater than signs in the Awful app so I had to redo that part every time I made an edit. E: and now every apostrophe and quotation mark broke  e2: fixed by copying my source document and editing in the changes I've made since, though in the process I inadvertently turned the entire OP bold for a short bit. What I'm saying is I'm kinda lovely at this. Arist fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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MrAristocrates posted:In Dan Harmon news, Dan Harmon got engaged to his girlfriend today. Good for him. To Erin? That poor bastard.
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Dec 29, 2013 02:47
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Sounds like Cupid hit him with three arrows.
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Dec 29, 2013 04:09
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Oh, now it has arrows. That's safe. 
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Re-watching some season 4 episodes, and its worse then I remember. This puppet is plain awful.
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Death By The Blues posted:Re-watching some season 4 episodes, and its worse then I remember. This puppet is plain awful. I previously stopped after puppets and just caught up. I didn't even stop intentionally or with any sort of angst. I just stopped caring and now I remember why.
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Capn Beeb posted:Oh, now it has arrows. That's safe. paper balls are emitted from off camera
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So is this show worth watching again or not? As soon as I heard Dan Harmon was no longer involved I kinda just stopped watching since I figured he was the main creative force behind it.
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Death By The Blues posted:Re-watching some season 4 episodes, and its worse then I remember. This puppet is plain awful. I tried rewatching season 4 with my girlfriend recently and we couldn't even get through two episodes. It's just that bad.
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SwissCM posted:So is this show worth watching again or not? As soon as I heard Dan Harmon was no longer involved I kinda just stopped watching since I figured he was the main creative force behind it. We only have the critics' word for it for now, but boy, do we have some good news for you 
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SwissCM posted:So is this show worth watching again or not? As soon as I heard Dan Harmon was no longer involved I kinda just stopped watching since I figured he was the main creative force behind it. Judging from those that have seen the first few episodes already, it will be a must to start watching again.
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I'm gonna add it to the OP, but everyone who didn't watch Season 4 should at the very least watch episodes 8 and 11 (Herstory of Dance and Basic Human Anatomy), which are actually pretty decent episodes, at the very least. In the case of Herstory of Dance, it's even more important now because it introduces a really great guest character who's returning this season.
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Basic Human Anatomy in particular is a really good one. In the end Season 4 might have been worth it since it meant that Jim Rash had an opportunity to write a script and not have it picked apart and rewritten and retooled by insane control freak perfectionist Dan Harmon.
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I wish Jim Rash could write more episodes because he's real good at that writing thing.
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Good reviews a'commin.
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quote:Aliens do not invade Greendale. Troy and Abed don't consciously re-enact the plot of the "Bosom Buddies" pilot. The evil study group from the parallel universe does not reappear. Already better than season 4.
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Irish Joe posted:Already better than season 4. IIRC the same goes for Inspector Spacetime, because IP rights and lawyers. Thanks, capitalism!
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Sakarja posted:IIRC the same goes for Inspector Spacetime, because IP rights and lawyers. Thanks, capitalism! lol is this for real? Because if so thank god, Inspector Spacetime is the worst thing ever.
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