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Vicki got another singing gig! Good for her. Also roffles @ slenderman
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While I didn't have a problem with the E2 Britta storyline, my partner, who is not a Harmontown fan, initially did, until I explained that the show was absolutely taking her side. See, Harmon is closer to Britta than to any of the other characters - check out how he basically describes his oppositional defiant disorder in a Rolling Stone interview from last year:Dan Harmon posted:I think probably the worst thing about my personality is that there must have been some huge dopamine or serotonin spike when I shamed my grade school principal, or the first time I told my Mom she couldn't make me clean my room. Those experiences were too emotionally formative for me. At the age of 41, I still think I'm addicted to the rush of proving to people that they can't control me. Harmon had some really abusive parents, like seriously brutally abusive, as he tells it. On Harmontown he's talked about coming to basically the same conclusion as Frankie, realizing that the parents he developed himself in opposition to are now harmless, relatively good-natured old people. While their present benign selves don't make up for what they did, they do call into question Harmon / Britta's entire personal worldview. If their two original tyrants aren't monsters, then no one is a monster, and no one gets to be a hero for fighting them, especially a decade or two after the other side stopped actually being oppressive. In essence, carrying the theme from the first episode, how do you define yourself when there's no longer a Big Bad to cast yourself against? Of course, one shouldn't have to be an obsessive Harmon fan like myself to understand the emotional conclusion of the episode, so that's definitely something of a shortcoming. Still, I really love where the season is going so far, pairing the grounded, character-based plots (and exteriors!) of S1 with the rich, layered comedy of the later seasons. Happy to see most of the thread seems to be in agreement, but I suppose we're still in the S6 honeymoon period.
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Mar 22, 2015 19:11
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It took my third watch to realize that Annie was miming milking cow-Abed in their handshake, not miming jacking him off. Yeah, I'm kind of ashamed, but it's a good handshake either way.
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Apr 25, 2015 08:24
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*ahem* Haaaaaaaam, girl!
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Apr 28, 2015 08:16
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I don't know about anyone else, but I try to stream the show on different devices, from different IPs (nothing fancy, just maybe watching on the phone on 4G rather than my home wifi) to give it just a little extra boost. With adblock off even, which is a pretty unprecedented concession from me. If Yahoo! doesn't give us at least a movie, I won't be able to help but feel a little betrayed.Chwoka posted:This is the first season Chang's worked since the first.
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May 5, 2015 05:56
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Oof. I'm a little afraid we may have entered the "Harmon ran out of time and just slapped some poo poo together" part of the season. Someone please explain if there's another layer of comedy underneath "The Gang Does Grifting Tropes," because I'm just not seeing it, and I watched it twice in a row because it was so flat to me I thought I was watching it wrong. Ryan Ridley aside, It's like they didn't have time to go back and add / punch up jokes. Hot dogs??? Do I need to go watch The Sting or something? It kills me to say this on several levels, but the show has dropped off in quality after the product placement episode.
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May 5, 2015 10:07
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Nadir speech for the win! Solid episode - when was the last time things got this delightfully meta? I think that the last 2 episodes, before tonight's, will probably be considered the low point (nadir, sorry) of an otherwise excellent season of Community, like the last two episodes of Season 5, or the first quarter of the first season, excepting the pilot. Matt Besser's closing tag was amazing too.
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May 12, 2015 09:14
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For all the others who loved this week's tag, Dan Harmon talks all about its genesis in the newest Community Postmortem:quote:Yahoo:The show’s cartoon logic — the idea of following an idea to crazytown and beyond, but still being logical — is something you don’t see anywhere else. Another show might have a guy who buys a giant hand, but what is it about your thought process that generates the giant watch and the boy dragged away by a giant kite? I just discovered these Q&A's, will have to read the rest. Starting with Grifting 101, to get some goddamn answers 
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May 16, 2015 04:56
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Goddamn, the Grifting 101 Q&A reveals that in a later episode this season, Dan's wife Erin McGathy is going to be playing someone's fiancée. Dan then mentions that Erin's character's fiancée is "kind of a jerk," which I think in descending order of likeliness would be Jeff, Elroy, Frankie (most hilarious option IMO). Maybe Frankie wouldn't be so unlikely, though, considering that neither Jeff nor Elroy currently seems ready for a stable relationship, let alone marriage? So my interest is sufficiently piqued for whenever that happens, maybe second-to-last episode since the finale will be another paintball extravaganza?
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