i’ve been actually having a tougher time with this season… I feel like they are derailing from the human aspect and every episode is just shock and awe…
Just to be sure, that the dice roll universe for all the bad things happening was because they rolled a 1 aka critical fail…
Just checking
Oh, good catch!
Uh, I totally didn’t register that.
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Ok, first thing first, before this episode, I was very frustrated and disappointed with this season of Community. It’s like the writers decided the ploys used to create conflict in previous season is the defining aspects of the entire show and fills the entire half season with it. Yeah, some tributes and quotes and outlandish things are creative, but where the frak did the heart of the show go?
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so since last episode, it was a lot better, and this episode I felt like I was watching Community again, the Community I fell in love with. I mean I fell in love with Community when Abed made his documentary about his parents, so it makes sense that the plot that brought heart back into the show also features Abed making a documentary.
The dean burning his diploma and rubbing it all over his naked body is… wow… wtf… but now with heart, it is fun and not just ridiculous. When Abed told him that the Dean got most of the shots the first day of shooting and he just filled in the gaps with some of his footage, I was like… what shots? That final commercial was all Abed, except the last scene where he reused the early 90s commercial. Abed is such a cool dude.
Liking that they are playing up the Troy Britta things. Annie was not hogging the show, and showing her obsessive dedication in her true form. The character of Jeff seems to be deconstructed every single episode this season. Yeah, we get that he acts like he doesn’t care about a thing but deep down he really cares about everything and how everyone thinks of him, but do we really need to have Jeff crying and rushing off the scene every episode? That aside, having Jeff playing such a great Dean is hilarious, and his ploy of not getting air-time back fired but in the end he got more upset because he couldn’t get any air time, was wonderful. Pierce… of Pierce…
it was just wonderful. And I wish the rest of the season will be more like this…
by the way, I read somewhere that says Community won’t be aired any more. If that’s true, it’s really sad. Because this season was just getting good.
I just caught the TV-movie “The Late Shift” on TV. It’s about Jay Leno and David Letterman’s late night war. I was really amazed by the actor who played David Letterman, because my god he looks and behaves just like David Letterman (by the way, the CBS executive behaves just like Londo Mollari, perhaps cause he is Londo Mollari).
Then I looked up IMDB to see who played David, and my god, it was the Community professor who loves life and coaches the debate team. Man he looks nothing like Dave, and yet he was an exact copy of Dave… what a greate piece of acting…
the Annie “Santa Baby” skit was … disturbing. It was funny, then weird, then funny and at the end of it I was befuddled.
Jim Rash, Dean Pelton on Community, also has a writer credit for the screenplay of The Decendants, which is supposed to be one of the best movies this year.
I don’t know, man; that scene mad me feel all warm and fuzzy in a funny way that drove me to my bunk.
I thought that scene was a breaking the 4th wall moment, and the show was commenting on viewer comments on the show’s abuse of Jeff/Annie chemistry and Annie’s sex appeal. For me it was coined when Jeff said “Look, eventually you hit a point of diminishing returns on the sexiness”. Annie’s “what’s a dumeenesheeing reetommmm” was awesome. Yet, not moments later after Jeff was all hyped up about Glee, again commenting on how fans complain about Jeff/Annie sexiness plots, yet we come back for it with a smile on our face anyways whenever there is a Jeff/Annie sexiness scene…
I for one loves Jeff/Annie… so… they should just get it over with…
It caused a great disturbance in the force, IYKWIM. I’ve watched the ep a couple times. It’s awesome. I want the soundtrack album.
Indeed. That and the fact that breaking the fourth wall has been part of this show since the get-go.
yup, I agree with the appraisals, but it just caught me off guard. My Oddball brain saw the Santa Teddy and thinks it’s got the scene all figured out before note 1, then Allison and Joel fake me out 3 or 4 times in very short order. It is funny and thought bending in what 30 seconds or less … good stuff, good stuff.
At the end I felt like a hockey goalie who could hear the buzzer and see the red light behind me, but wasn’t quite sure how the puck got behind me 
The [1970s] remake was my first horror movie, as a young buck who was probably too little to see it, but my dad was cool, so hey, you know? Anyhow, most of the movie went over my head at the time, and I didn’t fully realize what was going on at the end with that classic Donald Sutherland reveal —*but it sure left an impression on me. Point being, that moment in Community really hit home.
The horror. The horror.
<------------------ yes, mister Sutherland is awesome (and Canadian).
Sean’s Max Dugan Returns reference in this week’s cast was also well-received.
If this trailer won’t make you excited for the rest of the season:
http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/03/community-returns-to-nbc-trailer.html
This Motherfrakker will go down!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~ (Sean scream~~~)
OMG~~~~~ It’s back, it’s finally back!!!