Yahoo! Screen's "Community" Discussion (2009-2015)

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Yeah I don't laugh out loud a lot either, but Modern, Community, and It's Always Sunny nearly always make me do it. My thought process is entirely different from yours, even through her Disney face I was still thinking bad Annie Edisen thoughts........

Hey. I didn't say that i wasn't doing that either!

I forgot about Sunny. I love that too. And south park. But I was mainly going primetime broadcast, not cable.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by gamma626

I forgot about Sunny. I love that too. And south park. But I was mainly going primetime broadcast, not cable.

I'm opposite. 90% my favorite programming is either FX or HBO.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Oh so is mine. I was just talking about non cable comedies.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by gamma626

Oh so is mine. I was just talking about non cable comedies.

Oh yeah gotcha, if it weren't for comedies I wouldn't have much left on network stations either.

[WyldeMan45]

Hey everybody tonight is the season finale!!! And here are some of creator Dan Harmon's thoughts via Twitter about the head to head in the fall with Big Bang Theory. Some are quite amusing, I am most looking forward to this off screen death, and clone replacement.

# Tonight, on Community, one character will DIE. Between scenes. And be replaced with a clone. And the show will never acknowledge it. 31 minutes ago via Twitterrific

#@yvettenbrown stop yelling at me and look what CBS is doing! Skynet has targeted humanity and you're retweeting LLCoolJ! 8:16 AM May 19th via Twitterrific in reply to yvettenbrown

#@brianstelter Well, if CBS thinks I'm a big enough threat to send a terminator, the least I can do is prove them right. 8:03 AM May 19th via Twitterrific in reply to brianstelter

#@billprady welcome to 8. Not a lot here but vampires and bones. I'll give you half of any viewers I find. Okay, more than half. 7:17 AM May 19th via Twittelator

#@philloau it's a hard knock life. My monkey hates this caviar. 6:52 AM May 19th via Twittelator in reply to philloau

#Woke Erin to fret at her. After counseling, she says "I had a bad dream," I snap "was it Big Bang Theory moving to 8?!" #badboyfriend 6:48 AM May 19th via Twittelator

#"so I'm generating hot air and friction." RT @JBFlint: "Nothing setting world on fire Thursdays at 8 p.m.," CBS' Kelly Kahl on Big Bang move 6:38 AM May 19th via Twittelator

#@sepinwall Well, tell Sheldon that Abed says he "shall not pass."

[The_Basterd]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Hey everybody tonight is the season finale!!! And here are some of creator Dan Harmon's thoughts via Twitter about the head to head in the fall with Big Bang Theory. Some are quite amusing, I am most looking forward to this off screen death, and clone replacement.

Someone is going to die on Community?

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by The_Basterd

Someone is going to die on Community?

Read the very first twitter at the top of what I posted, its hilarious.

[Meeklo]

So Slater and Britta......and Annie?

Seriously wondering how this big mess is going to be cleared up.

I'd go with Annie....she's the hottest woman on the show.

[Hendricks4333]

Big Boobs>>>>>>>Medium Boobs>>>Slater>>>>Black Boobs

oh and F CBS!

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by Hendricks4333

Big Boobs>>>>>>>Medium Boobs>>>Slater>>>>Black Boobs

Annie >>>>>>>>>>>> All of the above.

[Chordata]

BBT and Community are 2 of my faves, but I never watch any of them "live" anyway -- I DVR them and watch them later that night.

[Hendricks4333]

Originally Posted by gamma626

Annie >>>>>>>>>>>> All of the above.

Thats what I was implying. Annie is amazing.

Also Troy delivers every line perfectly and John Oliver had a terrible return to the show.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by Hendricks4333

Thats what I was implying. Annie is amazing.

Also Troy delivers every line perfectly and John Oliver had a terrible return to the show.

Ah. I wouldn't say she has big boobs though. However, they are the size I prefer.

[Hendricks4333]

Originally Posted by gamma626

Ah. I wouldn't say she has big boobs though. However, they are the size I prefer.

It was a joke from last nights episode I thought.

They are the size I prefer as well and the biggest of the 3.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Oh. I haven't seen last nights episode.

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Hendricks4333

It was a joke from last nights episode I thought.

They are the size I prefer as well and the biggest of the 3.

Ja.

Annie's Boobs are awesome (and I'm not talking about the monkey!)

[Meeklo]

Ya know....Annie is such a sweet girl. Caring, bubbly, the kind of person your mom would be happy to see you dating. And all anyone here can talk about are her boobs! Show some respect yall.


























They are kinda nice though!

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by Meeklo

Ya know....Annie is such a sweet girl. Caring, bubbly, the kind of person your mom would be happy to see you dating. And all anyone here can talk about are her boobs! Show some respect yall.

They are kinda nice though!

what's wrong with talking about a monkey?

Also, Alison Brie sure as heck is not like Annie.

Alison Brie >>>>> Annie

now if you excuse me, I have to give a Banana to Annies boobs.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by gamma626

what's wrong with talking about a monkey?

Also, Alison Brie sure as heck is not like Annie.

Alison Brie >>>>> Annie

now if you excuse me, I have to give a Banana to Annies boobs.

But what am I supposed to do with my banana than............. cause he was really happy about Annie's Boobs.

[WyldeMan45]

'Pascal's Triangle Revisited': Trannies and furries and cookies, oh my!

A review of the "Community" season one finale coming up just as soon as I find a loophole...

Last week's "English as a Second Language" felt very much like a season finale, with the gang (and the show) figuring out how to stay together once they all finished their Spanish requirement. And as Abed repeatedly noted, "Pascal's Triangle Revisited" also felt very much like a season finale, here with the return of all the notable recurring characters, Annie preparing to leave Greendale, Troy looking for a roommate and, most obviously, with Professor Slater and Britta competing for Jeff's affections.

So why do what are essentially back-to-back finales? Maybe Dan Harmon, like Jeff with the two women, just couldn't choose between two finale pitches. Or maybe he felt like a show that's so self-aware about its place as a TV show couldn't accommodate all of its finale ideas into just one episode.

But for once, I think all the self-awareness got in the way of the comedy, as "Pascal's Triangle Revisited" didn't really come together until the Tranny Dance began, with Dean Pelton's dalmation/furry fetish, Britta and Slater ramping up the hostilities, Troy's giant cookie (and love of the original jump-the-shark episode of "Happy Days"), the drunk Professor Duncan being a complete ass (and then getting decked by Senor Chang and his roll of quarters) and the dance hall dividing into Team Britta and Team Slater (and Starburns remaining firmly on Team Coco).

Or maybe it wasn't the meta that got in the way earlier, but that I was so disheartened by the idea that "Community" would be building its first finale around the show's weakest element: Jeff and Britta.

As I've written many times before, the writers did a good job of turning into the skid with Britta and making the aspects of the character that nobody liked into comic traits that the characters hated as well. And I enjoyed her post-apocalyptic quickie with Jeff in "Modern Warfare," both because it suited the apocalyptic feel of that episode, because it was played as a one-time thing, and because the episode had been filled with meta-jokes about how little anyone cares about those two. So to see the show come back a few weeks later and expect us to invest in Britta suddenly realizing she has feelings for Jeff? That seemed a major miscalculation...

...until the show instead finally Went There and had Jeff and Annie - the two characters whose chemistry has been undeniable to everyone - kiss outside the Tranny Dance.

Well-played.

The genius of the Jeff/Annie thing is that it was clearly unplanned, or else Alison Brie might not have been asked to play an 18-year-old. But because she is, and because Joel McHale is playing close to his age and the two characters are at such opposite ends of the jaded-to-innocent spectrum, there is a lot of comic mileage to be had here, whether that kiss leads to more right away or not.

So good on "Community" for recognizing what was working and not trying to force what wasn't, and I look forward to seeing where this goes next semester, even as I'm bummed that Abed will have to compete with Sheldon from "Big Bang Theory" and Brennan from "Bones" in this weird Undiagnosed Asperger's Hour.