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Henry Gale
01-02-2014, 10:56 PM
http://www.redcarpetcrash.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/preview.jpeg

Just a reminder to everyone (and myself) that this does in fact return tonight, Harmon reinstated, etc., for a one hour premiere.

I never actually did see the back half of Season 4, but I'm mostly aware of where the characters stood at the end of it (something Harmon said he'd keep intact), and I'm hoping I won't need any more information or experienced pathos from those episodes than that.

I'd say I'm cautiously optimistic but reviews of the first three of this new season have been decidedly strong, and there's certainly less unstable elements at hand than the beginning of last year, so... I'm remembering what it feels like to be excited for this show, and it feels good!

Mara
01-02-2014, 10:58 PM
Hahahahaha... I made this thread within two minutes of you. We are on the same wavelength! I even mentioned cautious optimism. But I'm going to delete mine because yours has a pretty picture.

Henry Gale
01-02-2014, 11:16 PM
Hahahahaha... I made this thread within two minutes of you. We are on the same wavelength! I even mentioned cautious optimism. But I'm going to delete mine because yours has a pretty picture.

Haha wow, and of course as I was putting the post together I worried about that exact thing happening. I guess if Community fans didn't always think alike, it wouldn't have existed like it has for this long now. Or it's a sort of Match-Cut mental osmosis.

But you're right, that picture does have John Oliver and Jonathan Banks in it. So thank you for sparing it. :P

ledfloyd
01-03-2014, 12:28 AM
Well, that was better than all of season 4.

Mara
01-03-2014, 12:29 AM
How the holy heck did they get Chevy?????

Mara
01-03-2014, 12:57 AM
Britta's hair and Shirley's clothes have never looked this good.

Henry Gale
01-03-2014, 01:42 AM
Genuinely good!

The credit tag in the second episode was extraordinary.


How the holy heck did they get Chevy?????

Nice to have a genuine surprise like that in the overwhelmingly spoiler-heavy world we live in. It was really unexpected, really weird, really funny, all things I'm glad the show can be again, even when it's writing out one of its original characters.

Sycophant
01-03-2014, 01:44 AM
Is there an online way to watch an NBC west coast stream live?

number8
01-03-2014, 02:55 AM
The credit tag in the second episode was extraordinary.

No kidding. Banks is going to own this season, I think.

number8
01-03-2014, 03:22 AM
Also, "gas leak year." Actually subtle.

Dead & Messed Up
01-03-2014, 04:00 AM
Also, "gas leak year." Actually subtle.

Yeah, a nice way to acknowledge last year without sandbagging it entirely.

Bosco B Thug
01-03-2014, 04:55 AM
Oooh my gooood.

Being one such person who constantly wrestles with the idea of how much we really know about our favorite works of art, the Nicholas Cage plot resonated sooo good.

ledfloyd
01-03-2014, 02:32 PM
"Isn't it weird doing this without... Magnitude?"

Also "after everything Scrubs did for him!?"

number8
01-03-2014, 02:46 PM
"after everything Scrubs did for him!?"

"...Sorry."

Mara
01-03-2014, 04:01 PM
I wonder what Donald Glover would have thought if prior to season one he was told that people would be ten times more upset when he left the show than when Chevy Chase did.

Hugh_Grant
01-04-2014, 01:32 AM
I wonder what Donald Glover would have thought if prior to season one he was told that people would be ten times more upset when he left the show than when Chevy Chase did.

"You found my Clive Owen Tumblr?" Awesome.

EyesWideOpen
01-04-2014, 02:02 AM
"You found my Clive Owen Tumblr?" Awesome.

That is the best line in the show.

Gizmo
01-04-2014, 02:39 AM
Kinda enjoyed these episodes. Still not to the level of pure joy that I got out of seasons 1 and 2, but a marked improvement from the last.

Henry Gale
01-04-2014, 04:44 AM
Still not sure if Zach Braff's narration at the end of Re-Pilot was actually from the Season 9 episode of Scrubs they show or if he recorded it especially for Community to complete the running gag.

MadMan
01-04-2014, 08:26 AM
As much as I love this show I'm starting to think that its just best if I wait for Season 5 to hit Netflix. Also because I still can't bother to finish Season 4. I think Season 4 broke me or something. Its nice to here its good again though.

number8
01-04-2014, 02:34 PM
You do realize that none of Community is on Netflix?

Mara
01-04-2014, 03:01 PM
It is on Hulu Plus, though.

Henry Gale
01-04-2014, 07:31 PM
Wait.. Why did I assume that this show has pretty much always been on Netflix in the US? (Since for Canadians, there was a time the American one seemed to have infinitely better selection. Which isn't necessarily the case anymore.) I feel like if NBC wanted a magical solution to all of their ratings and other financial woes regarding the show, that would be a step in the right direction.

Also, every season is on Netflix in Canada. Even as someone who owns the first three DVD sets, it's a great way to access them in HD. This may also explain why the show feels endlessly more popular in real (as in, non-internet fan discussion) life up here.

I even remember Gillian Jacobs and Yvette Nicole Brown coming on to a Toronto morning show a couple of summers ago to promote Seasons 1-3 being put on Netflix.

Sycophant
01-04-2014, 07:50 PM
I could not really have hoped for a stronger return. Everything feels more alive than it did last season. The jokes are funny and make sense and are really damn snappy. There's a darkness that underlies this show at its best moments without every coming to the surface. One of the things that fascinates Harmon's Community is how human beings exist in relation to where they are, who they're with, and what they do. THAT is a large part of what was missing last season. It's difficult, because it's unquantifiable, but I can really feel it.

Banks slipped into this show as if it were a worn pair of shoes. Hope his presence continues to work as well as it does here (and as well as Oliver always has, who we should be seeing a fair bit of). So glad Jeong is back in the most sensible way possible. Right now he seems like early season 2 Chang, which I liked, but as a math teacher could exercise a bit of Chang's best incarnation, season 1's abusive authority figure.

ledfloyd
01-04-2014, 11:17 PM
The table scene after the first commercial break is everything that was missing last season.

[ETM]
01-05-2014, 07:03 PM
I'm loving the fact that they got showrunners/creators of Breaking Bad and Arrested Development to act on Community. :D

DavidSeven
01-06-2014, 05:24 PM
That was definitely one of the funniest credit tags they've ever done.

Nice start.

ledfloyd
01-10-2014, 03:47 PM
Last night's episode was spectacular.

Mara
01-10-2014, 06:06 PM
It was pretty good, though I never really felt it come together.

Best line:

"If you want to make Trouble, go work for Parker Brothers!"

number8
01-11-2014, 12:10 AM
Best line:

"If you want to make Trouble, go work for Parker Brothers!"

Nope.

"Excuse me for being alive in the 90s and having two ears connected to a heart."

number8
01-11-2014, 12:14 AM
I like the ending, actually. It connects nicely to Jeff's speech earlier in the ep about how finding the Ass-Crack Bandit is ultimately trivial. All of a sudden, they get a real tragedy, and the whole thing's just dropped. Because Jeff's right. Troy snaps out of his catatonic state because of this, too.

Mostly, though, I'm glad a theme episode has specificity again rather than just "this week, it's a (genre) episode!" How many sitcoms would do an entire tribute episode to David Fincher's filmography?

ledfloyd
01-11-2014, 12:31 AM
My favorite line was actually: "Oh bloody hell, my shoe is untied by British standards."

Gizmo
01-11-2014, 12:31 AM
This was my favorite episode in a while, probably since Advanced D&D. I was engaged and smiling the whole time I watched.

Dead & Messed Up
01-11-2014, 06:37 AM
It was pretty good, though I never really felt it come together.

Best line:

"If you want to make Trouble, go work for Parker Brothers!"


Nope.

"Excuse me for being alive in the 90s and having two ears connected to a heart."

These may have been the best lines, but the best overall moment was Dean snapping his fingers at his secretary. I couldn't hear a single line from the Bandit's phone call over my tearful, joyful laughter.

God, I've missed this show.

MadMan
01-11-2014, 08:06 AM
You do realize that none of Community is on Netflix?I have DVD in the mail from Netflix as well as Instant Viewing.

Qrazy
01-17-2014, 02:46 AM
That was pretty weird.

number8
01-17-2014, 12:44 PM
That Walton Goggins tag :lol:

I thought it was pretty great. It actually felt like Pierce was there with them. Perfect send off for him, and great setup to Troy leaving. I thought I was prepared, but it was nicely done.

number8
01-17-2014, 12:47 PM
Also, holy shit the iPod Nano callback. Incredible.

Mara
01-17-2014, 01:13 PM
I liked it quite a bit. The AV Club review (which is great) tied it pretty closely to Cooperative Calligraphy and the puppet episode last year.

As soon as they said bequeathment I thought that Annie would get that tiara.

ledfloyd
01-17-2014, 01:46 PM
That was great.

slqrick
01-17-2014, 01:50 PM
Great episode. Harmon goes back to the "why are these people even friends?" theme a lot throughout the series, and I thought this episode was another worthy addition to that whole deal. Like 8 said, good closure for Pierce and a great way to send off Troy's character.

number8
01-17-2014, 02:48 PM
That Walton Goggins tag :lol:

By the way, Harmon lifted that whole "I'm not usually like this, I'm fun, I'm creative, I'm like you" speech from a Sony exec who said this to him while drunk at a party. He talked about it on Harmontown.

Qrazy
01-17-2014, 05:38 PM
No one else found it over the top that Pierce died giving them his sperm? I'm typically for humor over sentiment but given all those fake heart attacks an actual heart attack might have been a better send off.

number8
01-17-2014, 05:40 PM
His dad already used that death.

Qrazy
01-17-2014, 05:51 PM
His dad already used that death.

Like father like son.

slqrick
01-24-2014, 02:11 AM
http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Troy-Community-Emotions.gif

ledfloyd
01-24-2014, 12:53 PM
Not everything in that episode worked, but the concept was so ludicrous I'm amazed at how much of it did work.

Troy's goodbye was pretty moving. Nice cameo.

number8
01-24-2014, 01:18 PM
I think everyone was expecting Troy and Abed to break down at the end and deal with their separation realistically. I like that they didn't though. They play acted to the end but made it no less emotional. That somehow made Abed's grief more subtle and thus more affecting. Donald's acting in that last hug was terrific.

This season has definitely been darker and more thoughtful that way. I am completely loving it.

Dead & Messed Up
01-25-2014, 04:04 AM
Yeah, episode did a good job, as always, blending high concept and deep emotion. I liked how it didn't avoid Season Four, with Troy whispering to Britta at the end. The show's had a tricky go of things, regaining the old style without being cruelly dismissive of the last season, but they're threading that needle well.

Gizmo
01-25-2014, 01:12 PM
I'm back to thoroughly enjoying the show again after the last couple seasons dropoff. Not sure how it'll play without Troy, as I feel he's the character that best connects the fantasy of the show with the reality of life. Without him, I'm not sure how Abed's zaniness can come across as connected to reality. I really hope Glover comes back to the show, because Abed and Evil Abed in the Morning just doesn't sound fun.

number8
01-31-2014, 12:51 PM
Is this going to be the flawless season? That was hysterical.

slqrick
01-31-2014, 02:42 PM
"They really get the incest right."

So great to have John Oliver back up in this.

Lazlo
01-31-2014, 06:17 PM
I was laughing continuously through everything with the dance. Chang's explanation, the revelation of the bear attacks, the fat dog dance. Gold, solid gold.

C'mon guys, let's fat dog for Friday.

Henry Gale
02-01-2014, 06:10 AM
http://i.imgur.com/wvvZDLg.png

The bottom...
http://i.imgur.com/nMkQDlt.jpg

And at least one person realized and made a gif showing the bulletin board falling off of the wall when Annie barged through the cafeteria doors in Episode 2 of this season, but I can't seem to find it again.

Bosco B Thug
03-01-2014, 12:45 AM
That episode was... AMAZING.

I'm not gonna be all like "BEST EPISODE YET" because the absence of Troy is indeed a heavy pall that we might address and the show is in a different place, but I was busting a gut of joy or surprise pretty much every chunk of minutes throughout. That might be unprecedented.

Henry Gale
03-01-2014, 01:01 AM
It was really, really good.

Absolutely love how they've worked Oliver and Banks into the group dynamic, I hate thought that their respective HBO series and Better Call Saul might pull them away if a 6th season happens.

And I can't believe an episode as strong as this one can argue for a Chang subplot as a highlight. Loved every second of his bits, and the final shot kicked me into an insane fit of laughter I didn't really shake until the credit tag.

Bosco B Thug
03-01-2014, 04:19 AM
Yes, absolutely. Chang's back and forth with the janitor is what it was that kicked me into a high point of hilarium. In retrospect it doesn't make much sense, but it's funny because it went there.

slqrick
03-01-2014, 04:22 AM
"Hong Kong, 1964."

number8
03-01-2014, 12:20 PM
All the cast members were really firing all cylinders this episode. It was incredible. I love Annie and Shirley's reaction to being sidelined too.

Troy's absence was handled beautifully.

ledfloyd
03-01-2014, 02:11 PM
All the cast members were really firing all cylinders this episode. It was incredible. I love Annie and Shirley's reaction to being sidelined too.

Troy's absence was handled beautifully.
It was a very low key episode, but the beats all worked really, really well. The vulnerability of Mike's duck comics, the scene with Britta and John Oliver in the car. And I liked the Chang plot, which never happens.

Thirdmango
03-03-2014, 05:12 AM
laughed uncontrollably at the Chang stuff at the end.

Mara
03-03-2014, 01:15 PM
I did not care for it as much as you guys. I thought it was merely solid. The Chang stuff was the strongest, but I don't even like him as a character.

Mara
03-07-2014, 10:53 PM
Maybe it's my enduring love of Logan's Run, but this one really tickled me.

number8
03-08-2014, 03:34 AM
It's all about Zarburns.

Qrazy
03-08-2014, 07:28 AM
Yeah I thought that ep was great.

[ETM]
03-08-2014, 10:02 AM
As odd as it sounds, seems like you can never have too many episodes where the school descends into utter chaos. It was so, so good.

slqrick
03-08-2014, 03:17 PM
Didn't find the execution to be as strong as it could have (or it's been in other parody episodes), but still enjoyable. A few people I know keep telling me something feels off about this season, but other than Troy and Pierce not being around, it feels like the same Harmon show with more emotional stakes.

[ETM]
03-08-2014, 05:42 PM
Of course someone on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/Meowmeowbeenz/) started working on the MeowMeowBeenz app straight away, and of course I signed up for the beta.

EyesWideOpen
03-10-2014, 12:34 AM
You can't go wrong by having Tim and Eric in your episode

Mara
03-10-2014, 01:46 AM
Roommate and I are watching "Logan's Run" because this episode got me thinking about it. She's never seen it.

Qrazy
03-10-2014, 07:11 AM
Fish and plankton, and sea greens and protein from the sea.

number8
03-13-2014, 05:36 PM
Tonight.

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1069374_10152280529148184_1233 689172_n.jpg

Mara
03-14-2014, 01:27 AM
I don't know if it was cohesive, but I was laughing to the point of shrieking several times. Funny stuff.

Hugh_Grant
03-14-2014, 01:58 AM
Gilligan killed it.

number8
03-14-2014, 03:06 AM
Hutwitz set a high bar last week, and Gilligan cleared it.

Qrazy
03-14-2014, 03:57 AM
That was amazing.

[ETM]
03-14-2014, 06:41 PM
Heh. :D "I told my wife that if I ever met Dan Harmon, he'd replace her picture as my phone background..." (http://9gag.com/gag/a44Wngw)

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/a44Wngw_700b.jpg

Mara
03-14-2014, 07:00 PM
Rewatched the Dean's rap. Could have been standard but the delivery elevated it to eomething hilarious and unnerving.

Hugh_Grant
03-14-2014, 08:51 PM
I think it was the "I don't know what that was."

http://youtu.be/FswfgcXD_pY

number8
03-17-2014, 08:52 PM
This is fucking money.

https://soundcloud.com/theleadguitaristforgunsnroses/dean-pelton-payday

number8
03-21-2014, 12:33 AM
Definitely not as good as the first D&D.

Mara
03-21-2014, 06:46 PM
Solid enough, though nothing mind-blowing. The retired-cop routine witht the two goblins was great.

number8
04-05-2014, 02:12 AM
Man this episode is really divisive among fans apparently. I enjoyed it a lot.

EyesWideOpen
04-05-2014, 02:18 AM
Like most of the Community novelty episodes it wore out its welcome 2 minutes in.

Henry Gale
04-05-2014, 07:36 AM
The divisiveness surprises me. Really loved this one. Thematically it kind of played like a more depressing, older-set counterpart to Lego Movie.

transmogrifier
04-05-2014, 10:41 AM
Close to my favorite of the season, following immediately after what was easily my least favorite. That D&D retread was just.....bad.

[ETM]
04-05-2014, 11:10 AM
It's another instant classic.

[ETM]
04-06-2014, 04:46 PM
I've been reading up on internet chatter, and it's mindblowing how many people dismissed the entire episode as "GI Joe related" even almost all of it was poking fun at 80s cartoons in general. I'm 34, haven't seen a second of anything GIJ, and I still "got" all of it.

number8
04-11-2014, 12:30 AM
That tag was incredible.

Bosco B Thug
04-12-2014, 03:08 AM
That tag was incredible. The tags this season have been kind of dark, absurdist masterstrokes/acting tour de forces.

This ep was brilliant. This season has been a constant exercise in needing to drop your expectations with purpose. The GI Joe episode made it clear there was no longer a divide between Harmon's Community and Rick and Morty mindsets, so we needed to accept that. Whereas most people wanted to revert back to peaking into classes, I was more let down that it wasn't being The Wire of comedies vis a vis the racket of Jeff teaching. We haven't seen him teach one class! But this episode was the perhaps unintended hit back to such criticisms: everything's happening behind the scenes, real life has no plot..

Qrazy
04-18-2014, 05:21 AM
Good stuff.

Bosco B Thug
04-18-2014, 06:21 AM
Hilariously pleasant.

number8
04-19-2014, 06:38 AM
Man, this season.

slqrick
04-21-2014, 12:24 AM
Really great.

number8
05-09-2014, 06:58 PM
Officially cancelled by NBC.

It's been real, folks.

Mara
05-09-2014, 07:00 PM
Officially cancelled by NBC.

It's been real, folks.

I am really surprised. It has survived worse and I thought it was on a roll.

dreamdead
05-09-2014, 07:10 PM
I expect Netflix or some cable network to swoop in, but I'm not really angry at the cancellation anymore. This past season was enjoyable, but I kept hoping they'd do more with Jeff as a teacher, which the show largely abandoned.

Dead & Messed Up
05-09-2014, 07:17 PM
I would never blame NBC for canceling the show. It's insane the amount of goodwill they gave to the show, given Harmon's temperament, the show's nightmarish production schedules, the embarrassing ratings.

I'll miss the hell out of the show.

Henry Gale
05-09-2014, 09:39 PM
Well shit. Somehow I'd gone from expecting it every year to not actually thinking it would happen this time.

If they'd kept the same timeslot, next season would've been the first in some time to not have to go up against Big Bang Theory (since CBS acquired Thursday Night Football), and really everyone,, both fans and those involved with the show, would've been fine with making it the final season to wrap everything up.

Oh well, definitely hurts. Though knowing the fan base, general enthusiasm for the show (likely shared by NBC themselves since they stuck with it so long despite everything) and the world of a million venues for programming and funding productions we now live in, I can't imagine it actually being the last we ever see of the cast and crew making something out of this world and its characters.

But for now, goodbye show. :sad:

EvilShoe
05-09-2014, 11:33 PM
C'mon Netflix... :sad:

Ivan Drago
05-10-2014, 01:48 AM
From now on, I'm referring to NBC by the name of my local affiliate. That network is dead to me.

I have never been this angry and sad over a show getting cancelled...ever. If Netflix or Hulu Plus make an offer, I will love them forever, but from the looks of Harmon and others on Twitter, they're moving on for now.

This sucks. :(

Lazlo
05-10-2014, 03:04 AM
We were lucky to get as much of this show as we did. Imagine if it had ended last year. I'm not really sure what else there would be for them to do. Shows can't last forever and at least this one went out with the same quality and spirit that made the show so great.

slqrick
05-10-2014, 03:09 AM
Was surprised by how much the news hit me emotionally. I think it's dead, and while a Netflix/Hulu revival or something is possible, I get the feeling in my gut that this is it.

Watashi
05-10-2014, 03:42 AM
It's for the best.

After Troy left, it really went downhill.

MadMan
05-10-2014, 07:27 AM
Well shit. I guess we were lucky that the show didn't get canceled after Season 1, 2, or hell even 3. Thirdmango and I were even ready to pay homage to Community in our short lived shows thread if it was going to be canceled at the end of Season 3. Farewell Community. I'll finish up Season 4 and enjoy Season 5 I guess.

EvilShoe
05-12-2014, 11:36 AM
Dan Harmon posted an update on his Tumblr.
http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/85510995369/more-than-a-tweet

Anyone else looking up Toast of London now?

Henry Gale
05-29-2014, 06:18 AM
HULU apparently interested in picking it up for the 6th Season. (http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/community-hulu-season-6-dan-harmon/)

Hope it comes together. My only worry/question though, are there any Hulu-exclusive shows that even begin to approach the budget (or even viewership) of Community? I'm sure Sony would cover a lot of its finances, similar to how they did with NBC which left them willing to keep it on the air so long, but it feels like a huge leap from their usual "Original" offerings. Many of them just seem to be U.S. rights to international stuff.

EyesWideOpen
05-29-2014, 06:51 AM
Hulu is trying to make a push in to original stuff to combat netflix so I would assume they would be going all out for their first big title.

slqrick
05-29-2014, 01:41 PM
It would have to have more of those bottle episode types, and less of the crazy ones. I'll believe it when I see it, but it would make sense for Hulu.

Henry Gale
05-29-2014, 02:52 PM
A big thing to consider is how many times in the past Sony has picked up the tab on struggling shows that the networks are no longer as keen on producing themselves. They managed to keep things like Damages, Rules of Engagement, and even that old Brad Garrett show 'Til Death on the air (the last of those just so it could hit the right number for a syndication deal) once their respective networks cooled on them.

If Hulu really wants to do this, I could see Sony allowing them the money to do it right and with a transitional production that looks as seamless as possible.

EvilShoe
06-24-2014, 02:41 PM
Hulu's out:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/community-wont-be-saved-by-hulu-after-all-20140624

number8
06-24-2014, 02:48 PM
Prediction: all of NBC's Fall comedies will bomb and they'll enter a deal with DirectTV to co-finance a sixth season.

EvilShoe
06-24-2014, 03:08 PM
Prediction: all of NBC's Fall comedies will bomb and they'll enter a deal with DirectTV to co-finance a sixth season.
Wouldn't it be problematic that the actors' contracts will have lapsed by then?

Although I guess they're all doing guest roles at best, so I dunno.

number8
06-24-2014, 03:13 PM
Only if the cast refuses to sign new ones. Which I think is unlikely unless they're all tied up in cushy new jobs in the next 6 months.

Lazlo
06-24-2014, 04:41 PM
Woof. Let it die. One of the all-time great shows for much of its run, but people need to learn how to let things go.