what's wrong with liberal amounts of self-awareness?

as long as it's still funny, you can do whatever you want.

see: arrested development

9/24/2010 1:53:17 PM

Show should be pretty safe. Did a good job going up against BBT on CBS. Didn't lose any viewers from the finale last year.

Actually all of NBC's shows did as well as could be reasonably expected... including, unfortunately, Outsourced (bye bye P&R?).

9/24/2010 2:07:13 PM

Quote :

"A 'gall bladder' is just something doctors make up to charge you more money. Yeah, remove my *wallet* while you're down there!"

9/24/2010 2:19:22 PM

^^^Agreed.

I'd say self-awareness is hands-down the most important thing for any piece of entertainment media to have. They just have to make sure it doesn't turn into self-obsession and circle-jerking (because if it does, they've lost the self-awareness to see how stupid it looks...). I haven't seen Community approach that point yet though, thankfully.

9/24/2010 2:41:17 PM

Ratings were solid - I thought Big Bang would have taken away more - with the geek element.

9/24/2010 2:48:34 PM

i have no idea why anyone thinks the big bang theory is funny

nerds should be smart enough to see that they're being pandered to by the guy who makes two and a half fucking men

9/24/2010 2:55:20 PM

Is Big Bang Theory a show for nerds? I always thought it was more for people who find nerds funny. I figured the real nerds (like me) would prefer the IT Crowd or Chuck.

I just hope Community doesn't suffer a ratings hit to a show with a laughtrack.

9/24/2010 3:07:52 PM

Wait, Big Bang Theory is meant for nerds? I always thought it was just a shitty sitcom about people having sex/relationship drama, with a bad pun (or innuendo, or double-entendre, or whatever it is) in the name.

Then again, I've never watched it, and the ads make it look like shit, which it probably is... so no real loss there, I suppose.

[Edited on September 24, 2010 at 3:30 PM. Reason : .]

9/24/2010 3:29:22 PM

Chang was great, scenes with him in the classroom had me rolling.

Although the shit at the end with him was sorta weird, not sure about all that.

9/24/2010 5:29:15 PM

I liked the Gollum bit, but it seemed a bit forced.

9/24/2010 6:17:27 PM

^ that was a reference to Lord of the Rings, when Gollum's split personalities are talking to each other

9/24/2010 6:17:52 PM

^

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"Nerd Chick"

9/24/2010 7:24:24 PM

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"^^thanks, miz"

what

9/25/2010 4:34:52 PM

9/25/2010 7:32:27 PM

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"I'd say self-awareness is hands-down the most important thing for any piece of entertainment media to have."

Please elaborate.

If you're saying that for a program to be entertaining then it needs to understand what is entertaining about itself, then I agree.

But if you're saying that it needs to let the audience know that it knows what its doing to be entertaining, then I don't get you. How is that essential?

Of course, you may not get me. The way I've worded this probably isn't very clear. (sleepy)

9/26/2010 12:25:17 AM

I love community so much. Annie with the chloroform

9/30/2010 9:02:43 PM

I love annies boobs so much it hurts.

9/30/2010 9:58:09 PM

LOL at the cartoon world at the end.

"I didn't believe"

9/30/2010 10:13:25 PM

^^^ "Who are you? And why do you have a rag in your hand?"

9/30/2010 10:52:08 PM

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"Annie with the chloroform"

and drew carey's hole in his hand

9/30/2010 11:03:56 PM

^the handshake "pop" between he and jeff made that whole thing worth it

10/1/2010 8:34:08 AM

Best part of last night. "I can explain...let me explain!"

10/1/2010 8:39:59 AM

show is pure gold - getting close to arrested development levels of awesomeness.

10/1/2010 11:30:58 AM

confirmed my feelings from last year...best comedy show on tv. doesn't disappoint.

10/1/2010 11:39:11 AM

I quit doing blow, not being rad.

10/1/2010 1:03:52 PM

^great line

the rest is mediocre

^3 not even close for me. mostly because arrested development demonstrated they were addressing a full plot for three seasons out. its obvious once you watch it all, but this show lacks that sort of feel.

10/1/2010 11:54:02 PM

I like this show a lot, and I enjoy all of the characters, but to say it's getting close to Arrested Development quality is really pushing it.

There are some excellent self-contained episodes (chicken fingers, paintball), and the general story arcs are fine, but we'd be knee-deep in callbacks and in-jokes thought out a year in advance by now if they were on that level. Think of Sitwell/Lucille 2/Standpoor and the fact that they all existed in AD #101 as an example, and you'll see how Community falls short as of right now.

Also, this "Chang tries to get into the study group every week" bit is getting old, and it's only week #2. I hope they can it after three or four attempts.

10/2/2010 3:15:25 AM

You's on crack if you think this show is on the same level as Arrested.

Arrested was wrapped so tightly it's still somewhat mind boggling to me.

Still, Community is one of the best shows currently on television.

10/2/2010 10:43:23 PM

Arrested Development has significantly higher replay value, since you keep picking up on more and more jokes each time you watch an episode. That said Arrested Development was not a perfect show, and there were some elements of it that either didn't work or were obnoxious. Community isn't perfect either, but it's consistently hilarious and that's all you can really ask.

10/3/2010 3:35:32 PM

community has rewatchability.

10/3/2010 7:51:08 PM

It does to a certain degree, but after one or two viewings most people would have picked up on all the jokes/references...that's not the case with AD where you can keep peeling back layers of jokes on the 4th or 5th viewing.

10/3/2010 7:58:00 PM

Arrested Development is dated now. You might as well be watching Mary Tyler Moore. Get with the new decade.

10/3/2010 10:20:32 PM

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"Also, this "Chang tries to get into the study group every week" bit is getting old, and it's only week #2. I hope they can it after three or four attempts. "

I thought that was the funniest part of both episodes.

10/4/2010 8:59:35 AM

Arrested Development is an amazing show.
Community is is an amazing show.

I don't feel the need to rank them in order. I can enjoy them both.

But praising Community and recommending it to friends will help keep it on the air. Arrested Development is out of our hands now (even the movie, if it ever actually starts filming).

10/4/2010 1:21:41 PM

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"But praising Community and recommending it to friends will help keep it on the air"

i feel like everyone i know must secretly be morons whenever I'm not around. Because whenever I discuss this show i get responses like "Community is alright, but it's not all that funny. but OMG did you see the Office after it? Jim put his desk on top of Dwights! rofl rofl"

i then sit there going

10/4/2010 1:45:09 PM

^^this reminds me of an argument I heard earlier that made me :carlface:

someone was saying they liked modern family, and another couple of guys were like "ugh, why do they keep putting out this drivel?" When asked why, they said they are find with their arrested development on dvd- and upon further investigation, they hadn't even seen modern family, but rather assumed that nothing could be as good, and thus was bad. WHY CAN'T YOU LIKE MORE THAN ONE SHOW? ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN IT A CHANCE??


On that note, I think Community if my favorite thursday night show on NBC now... the cast just has great chemistry (and yes i know it has its retarded moment, but that is part of the allure- being able to sit back, turn your brain off and laugh for 25 minutes is what I want when I watch most "comedys" on tv now)

10/4/2010 1:59:10 PM

kind of a meh episode overall, but you can't go wrong with britta and annie oil wrestling. Also lol @ betty white/inception tag.

10/7/2010 8:33:36 PM

so what was Abed doing the whole episode? i caught him in the background one scene helping a preggo chick that went into labor, i'm assuming there were many more such scenes, but thats the only one i noticed

10/7/2010 9:41:28 PM

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"Arrested Development is dated now. You might as well be watching Mary Tyler Moore. Get with the new decade."

take it back

10/7/2010 10:27:03 PM

holy shit Sepinwall was an extra in the oil wrestling scene. In retrospect I think I enjoyed the episode more than I let on initially.

10/8/2010 1:02:33 AM

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""I only kissed Jeff because I wanted to be cool and sexy like you. I'm gross." Britta: "I only had sex with Jeff because I hate myself. I'm twice as gross.""

What's with all the hate for Winger?

10/10/2010 12:16:54 PM

I totally missed the whole Abed in the background - have to re watch.

10/10/2010 12:23:25 PM

This sounds awesome:

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"Scoop: 'Community' pulls a 'Rudolph' When Community ingénue Alison Brie (Annie) says, “It’s going to be a very special Christmas episode,” she means it. The sophomore comedy is officially going through with plans to produce a holiday eppy in stop-motion animation like the old Rankin/Bass classics. “When I found out,” Brie adds, “I fell in love with the show all over again!” She wasn’t the only one. “It is so hard for me not to tell everybody I know about it,” exclaims Danny Pudi (Aped). “The minute we read that script, I was over-the-moon excited. It’s like that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special that you see every Christmas. But in true Community fashion, it’s also a little subversive and a little dark.” ...."

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/09/17/exclusive-community-pulls-a-rudolph/

10/11/2010 10:57:06 AM

Abed in the background:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tP0ubODOUQ

I knew something was up with that shot of Shirley, but missed the entire thing.

10/11/2010 11:18:59 PM

Tonight's episode is an astronaut movie parody, in the vein of the paintball episode from last season...should be pretty entertaining.

10/14/2010 6:08:36 PM

pumped.

10/14/2010 7:45:38 PM

Chevy Chase is bringing the LOLs this episode

10/14/2010 8:15:47 PM

Quote :

"there is a time and a place for subtlety, and that time was before Scary Movie"

10/14/2010 8:28:24 PM

EPIC

10/14/2010 9:08:48 PM

Hands down the best product placement episode ever.

10/14/2010 9:22:47 PM