Lumex All American 3666 Posts user info edit post |
Jesus, it's just a little constructive criticism. Sorry for posting something other than "Did you see that one part? OMG SO FUNNY"
Quote : | "Next thing you're going to do is bitch that Jeff doesn't try to sleep with Britta every 5 minutes." |
the hell you talkin bout?2/25/2011 2:23:18 PM |
toemoss All American 2950 Posts user info edit post |
Willis? 2/25/2011 3:00:13 PM |
dmspack oh we back 25462 Posts user info edit post |
Didn't really like the episode that much...but the opening scene with the notches did make me laugh. 2/25/2011 9:07:10 PM |
smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
2/27/2011 11:44:38 PM |
Duncan All American 1442 Posts user info edit post |
Good call, I can't wait for Community to make a clever "jumping the shark" gag.
My favorite is still the one in Arrested Development. 2/28/2011 10:25:57 AM |
phishbfm All American 4715 Posts user info edit post |
Troy already mentioned the jump the shark episode being the best happy days ep right? 2/28/2011 10:29:37 AM |
Ronny All American 30652 Posts user info edit post |
Someone yesterday posted on facebook that Community > Arrested Development.
LULZ! 2/28/2011 11:13:17 AM |
smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
Both shows became sad parodies of themselves.
[Edited on February 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM. Reason : also, I think britta aged 5 years over the winter.] 2/28/2011 6:58:20 PM |
Stein All American 19842 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Someone yesterday posted on facebook that Community > Arrested Development. " |
As much as I loved Arrested Development, every day I inch closer and closer to that conclusion as well.2/28/2011 7:09:06 PM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
as do I 3/1/2011 9:01:57 AM |
phishbfm All American 4715 Posts user info edit post |
I want to live in a world where they can both be the best shows I've ever seen. But for now, AD>Community, but yeah the margin is getting smaller. 3/1/2011 10:11:11 AM |
CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
I really enjoy Community a lot but it's nowhere close to touching AD for me 3/1/2011 10:12:28 AM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
AD is great - but dated. William Hung, sars jokes? 3/1/2011 10:56:23 AM |
Geppetto All American 2157 Posts user info edit post |
perhaps dated, but well orchestrated and incredibly witty. while community has a lot of these same elements, they are at no where near the level of design. 3/1/2011 10:59:08 AM |
CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
agreed. I guess it just comes down to taste. I really enjoy Community and my wife and I DVR it and watch it every single week (which we don't do with very many current TV shows). It just doesn't compare to the level of hilarity of AD for me personally. 3/1/2011 11:02:27 AM |
Lionheart I'm Eggscellent 12775 Posts user info edit post |
AD may be the most overrated tv show of the last 20 years not named Seinfeld 3/1/2011 3:27:19 PM |
phishbfm All American 4715 Posts user info edit post |
^blasphemy(and I'd love to know what you do have (properly)highly rated). 3/1/2011 3:30:05 PM |
CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
^^ considering AD and Seinfeld are both in my personal top 5 I'd like to see what you have rated high (just for comparison). No use arguing taste in comedies but I'm just curious. 3/1/2011 3:35:29 PM |
dFshadow All American 9507 Posts user info edit post |
AD was golden, easily my top fave comedy show. but i think we lionize it - we remember it to be better than it actually was. 3/1/2011 3:49:39 PM |
Lionheart I'm Eggscellent 12775 Posts user info edit post |
^^, ^^^ One thing I'll say is that overrated doesn't necessarily mean not good; it just means not as good as the perception
Also when thinking of top shows for me I don't go to a lot of comedies, The problem with comedies that runs over a certain number of seasons is that they start to just become one dimensional and almost parody themselves. Look at the first 4 seasons of Scrubs or so vs the last seasons. Early on you've got some great stuff but then it just becomes smarmy JD and shit. We can't know if AD would or wouldn't have gone down a similar path.
Its Always Sunny The Wire South Park Freaks and Geeks (Kinda Like AD in that its a little to short to judge with the longer running stuff) 30 Rock Chappelle's
I fully admit its apples and oranges for a lot of these but I wasn't just thinking commedies. Most comedies are either lowest common denominator (Raymond, Friends) or so up its own ass (Curb Your..) or just awkward comedy with very little real construction (Tim and Eric ) I honestly don't think theres a lot of good comedy on tv nowadays
I do like Archer and Community but I'm not ready to elevate those too far up yet.
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Lionheart I'm Eggscellent 12775 Posts user info edit post |
I also hate the office, british and american 3/1/2011 4:21:27 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
http://twitpic.com/453ysv 3/1/2011 5:03:43 PM |
Ernie All American 45943 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.avclub.com/articles/yes-theres-a-community-porn-parody-in-the-works,52552/ 3/1/2011 5:07:15 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "awkward comedy with very little real construction (Tim and Eric)" |
I know it's only one 15 minute episode, but the "Jim and Derek" episode of Tim & Eric might be the best piece of modern TV satire ever constructed.3/1/2011 5:52:04 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
I haven't watched a ton of Tim & Eric but it always struck me as quirky for the sake of being quirky, which I can't stand to watch. 3/1/2011 6:13:20 PM |
Jeepin4x4 #Pack9 35774 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Looks like Katherine Heigl’s (somewhat valid) criticisms of Apatow’s portrayal of women as shrill and joyless hasn’t affected his ability to draw female talent like moths to a bearded Jewish flame. Today brings us news that Allison Brie of “Community” and “Mad Men” notoriety is the next actress to betray her gender by appearing in an Apatow film. In Five-Year Engagement, Apatow will focus on the ups and downs of a couple (played by Jason Segal and Emily Blunt) over the course of their relationship. Brie will portray Emily Blunt’s younger sister/shoulder-to-cry-on. It would appear that in Apatowland, women don’t have friends, only sisters. If a female Apatow character has no sisters, she is an island, fated to settle down with a man-child, turning her frustrations inward until Paul Rudd or whoever learns to change.
Brie also stars in Scream 4, hitting theaters April 15. Her schedule is busy enough that she is perhaps the only person in entertainment not worried sick over the inability of “Mad Men” producers to get a production schedule together for season 5. " |
3/3/2011 2:08:30 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
Supposedly they're doing a Pulp Fiction parody in the near future...should be awesome. Also Josh Holloway (Sawyer from Lost) is appearing in an upcoming episode. 3/3/2011 2:13:42 PM |
Geppetto All American 2157 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "women don’t have friends, only sisters. If a female Apatow character has no sisters, she is an island," |
from my experiences, this is true in real life, as well.3/3/2011 5:00:55 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
why wasn't this new tonight 3/3/2011 11:10:59 PM |
bobster All American 2298 Posts user info edit post |
Mid season break, they'll be back 3/17. Also, WTF was on in Greensboro? Some Girl Talk/ Local News bullshit. Don't tell me the Office is on and give me that shit 3/3/2011 11:40:15 PM |
Jeepin4x4 #Pack9 35774 Posts user info edit post |
february sweeps ended, most shows take a "spring-break" of sorts in March and then come back with all new episodes between April and May for final sweeps and finale time 3/4/2011 8:35:12 AM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnLmjTR90Ak 3/5/2011 2:59:53 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
3/7/2011 4:29:02 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
I'm still waiting for Yacht Rock references. 3/7/2011 5:10:35 PM |
bobster All American 2298 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/03/10/donald.glover.obsessions/index.html?hpt=T2
Quote : | " (CNN) -- No matter what side of Donald Glover you've come to know -- actor, stand-up comedian, writer or rapper, under the moniker Childish Gambino -- get ready to become better acquainted with all of them. The Georgia native has been starring on NBC's cult favorite sitcom "Community" as the former jock Troy Barnes, but any Glover devotee will tell you that he's been steadily grinding at stand-up comedy and music along the way. All of that is coming to a head with his 24-city "IAmDonald" tour, which kicks off in Iowa in April. The entertainer has promised that the hybrid concert/comedy event will be the total Donald Glover experience. "I don't want [it] to be 'Donald Glover the comedian opened for Childish Gambino,'" he explained to MTV. "I want it to be more like, 'These are all facets of me.'" Perhaps it's an effort to help us realize that it's all coming from just one person. He worried last year in the L.A. Times that people didn't understand that "the guy who wrote for '30 Rock' is also the guy on 'Community' who's also the guy in [the comedy sketch] 'Bro Rape.'" But indeed it is. Glover's hasn't been in the front of the TV camera for very long, but his resume stretches all the way back to his days as a resident assistant at New York University. He may not be at the James Franco-nian level of ubiquity yet, but it's still hard to think of anyone who began their career writing for "30 Rock" as someone on the rise. He landed a job on the NBC show thanks to an executive producer taking note of his comedy work, but he soon voluntarily left to concentrate on stand-up. He then landed a role on "Community," and, well, you know what happened with that. Along the way, he also churned out 2009's dark comedy "Mystery Team" with the comedy group he co-founded, Derrick Comedy, and starred in his own Comedy Central special last year. Does he sleep? Not really. "I have so many ideas and things I want to do, sleeping isn't going to accomplish that," he's matter-of-factly said. Lately, though, it's his rap skills as Childish Gambino -- a name cultivated from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator he discovered in college -- that are getting the most attention, particularly with the release of his latest EP that was made available free of charge on Tuesday. His music comes without a price tag because Glover has said his intent is to just express himself as much as possible to as wide an audience as possible, something he may not be able to do as easily if he went corporate. So while his newness is relative -- the EP that fans are appropriately calling "EP" follows closely on the heels of his prior album "Culdesac" and a number of mixtapes -- SPIN still spotlighted him as one of the best five new artists to watch in March. The track "Freaks and Geeks" -- which is accompanied by a high-energy music video that will likely provide some with a "wait, that's the dude from 'Community'" moment -- is definitely one to note. "As Childish Gambino," SPIN says, "Glover is bringing the razor-sharp wit, humor, and delivery he's mastered on TV to rap... He used to rap over a lot of indie rock, but now the music's mostly original and he's touring this spring with a band and there's nothing gimmicky about it." That honesty is definitely part of his appeal. It seems the Internet goes hard for him with support (see: Donald Glover for Spider-Man campaign, circa last summer) not just because he's quite talented, but also because he's simply being his own, nerdy self. "My parents had a lot of foster kids living with us, and a lot of my stuff is autobiographical -- stuff that weirded me out as a kid," he once explained to Variety of his comedic style. "I was the only black kid in my school for a long time, and I got picked on a lot as I was a big nerd. I was really into 'Star Trek' and 'Looney Tunes' and crafts and writing plays. I wasn't one of the cool kids."
So when it comes to the idea of "cool," especially as it's been applied in hip-hop, Glover isn't interested. "I want to make it OK for people to be whoever they are," he explained to MTV. "I feel like a lot of my music, for a long time I didn't do it because I was afraid [of], 'Oh, people shouldn't know this about me; they should just know me as a comedian.' But I'm kind of done with that. That's bull[expletive]. I'm over trying to be cool." Yet of course, by unabashedly embracing what some consider the antithesis of whatever "cool" may be, he's becoming the very definition of it." |
3/11/2011 12:19:30 PM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Childish Gambino -- a name cultivated from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator he discovered in college" |
ahahahahhahahaa, that's awesome on so many levels.3/11/2011 12:22:51 PM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
paintball II:
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/03/community-s2-finale-first-look-behind-the-scenes-of-apocalyptic-greendale.html 3/13/2011 2:48:32 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
aha
3/13/2011 3:40:25 PM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
looks like an old west theme 3/13/2011 6:21:15 PM |
skokiaan All American 26447 Posts user info edit post |
annie's boobs 3/13/2011 7:06:19 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
annie's boobs have always been streets ahead 3/13/2011 7:07:18 PM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
coin and minted! 3/13/2011 7:28:12 PM |
Stein All American 19842 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/630297/the-dire-warnings-of-future-donald-glover.jhtml#id=1659013 3/15/2011 12:16:05 PM |
Budiss All American 2348 Posts user info edit post |
Mystery Team dropped on Netflix Watch Instantly. Low Budget Derrick Comedy Movie.
Not that great but quality Donald Glover. 3/15/2011 12:28:37 PM |
armorfrsleep All American 7289 Posts user info edit post |
picked up for a 3rd season, along with Parks and Rec, and The Office
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/nbc-renews-the-office-parks-and-recreation-and-community 3/17/2011 3:55:54 PM |
marko Tom Joad 72825 Posts user info edit post |
is that a drawing of winger or sting? 3/17/2011 6:47:15 PM |
DoeoJ has 7062 Posts user info edit post |
hahaha, did their sweatshirts to commemorate the paintball episode say "Its All Downhill from Here" ? making fun of themselves i guess 3/17/2011 8:32:40 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
"Later Luka is going to teach us how to break the will of an entire village by killing their livestock and desecrating their places of worship." 3/17/2011 8:42:45 PM |
se7entythree YOSHIYOSHI 17377 Posts user info edit post |
why is it that the last few episodes britta has been a bumbling retard? 3/17/2011 10:43:32 PM |
GGMon All American 6462 Posts user info edit post |
pulling back layers 3/18/2011 8:05:57 AM |