Community (NBC/Yahoo) TV Show • Page 44

That Danny Pudi video is getting fucking huge lol, more people have probably seen it than Community

 

It's always very difficult getting my wife to start a new show, but once we do you can't stop her. After... uh, 6? years of trying to get her to watch Community we finally started last night and ran through the first 9 episodes back to back to back

 

Girlfriend hates Community. Complains everytime I try to get her to watch it. “It’s so stupid.”

I’m returning the ring.

 

I know that Netflix removed Advanced Dungeons and Dragons for the blackface instance, which is debatable.... but I will say... there are far worse things that Pierce says or does throughout the first season. But yes, I understand Pierce is supposed to be unlikeable.

That being said... "Basic Genealogy" is far and away the most problematic episode I have noticed on this re-watch. The way Shirley talks to, and about, Abed's family.... big yikes. The episode is one of the few times that there are racial jokes made which are there for comedy in themselves, not because they are in poor taste.

 

The Jeff meeting his dad storyline is one of the best bright spots in season 4. Unfortunately the episode is brought down by the terrible Shawshank storyline

 

man, I always remember the puppet episode being the worst of the series, but I forgot how truly gawdawful it is.

Especially coming after the Sophie B Hawkins episode which is probably the best of S4

 

Worst episode of the show is the return of the Germans in S4 imo but the puppet one is probably second worst

 

Germans 2 has way, way more laughs than the puppet episode (prob one of the worst episodes I've seen any of any show)

 

Yeah, Germans 2 isn't good but at least there's plenty of moments throughout

 

I hate that episode with a passion lol, first of all there was no reason to bring those characters back, especially if they couldn't get Nick Kroll to come back. The part I hate most though is that "emotional" ending where they clean the study room and talk about respecting the school or some shit and it feels entirely unearned

 

hey, I feel ya, the episode isn't good. But again, it's not the puppet episode so its not the absolute worst.

 

the dean freestyling is maybe the best moment

 

was watching last night and fell asleep with it still on. woke up and Mike from Breaking Bad has replaced Pierce and they're all teachers or some shit

 

eh by S4 standards? I think Germans 2 is one of the better ones. there's some funny exchanges like when Jeff starts giving the inspirational "growing up, we didn't have much" speech and they all sit down and sigh. or

"you had me at ruse"
"that was the last thing I said!"
"good thing you said it"

like, on any other season it'd be bottom quadrant, but I'd rather put that one on than a fair cut of S4 (including the first and last eps, the puppets, and that painfully boring whale ep)

 

Fully second Germans 2 being the worst episode of the series. Puppets and the graduation/paintball finale round out the bottom three.

 

Can we all agree that GI Jeff and the two part finale were an awful way to end S5?

 

The end of s5 is still funny, but yeah it would have been awful thematically

 

Is it wrong of me to say that season 4 feels closer spiritually to seasons 1-3 than season 6 does?

 

Season 4 feels closer because it’s desperately trying to emulate the first three seasons

 

I mean, in terms of its super bright lighting and cheery jokes, I see how the tone of S4 is more similar to the first 3 seasons. I always tell people to treat S6 like a totally different show. It's my favorite season, but I like it for different reasons than how I feel about the other seasons

 

I don’t think GI Jeff was a good conceit, but i do think Jeff confronting being a 40 year old working at a community college was essential to his character arc and is a big reason i like the show. Also the GI Joe cartoons figuring out they could die was funny to me.

 

The worst thing about the graduation episode is that it had the potential to be REALLY good, I like everything in the first half of that episode before all the stupid shit starts, but then they absolutely ruin it with the paintball stuff (I don't use this word often but I physically cringe when Abed says they "made paintball cool again"), forcing the ending to be incredibly rushed. That episode actually might be the worst example of the new showrunners entirely misinterpreting what the viewers wanted, I don't think there's a single fan that wanted the graduation episode, possibly the most important moment of the show story-wise, to be a gimmick episode

Sorry for the rants lol I have extremely strong opinions about this show

 

Accounting for Lawyers is a good episode

 

Leonard is the best ancillary character and I will hear no other opinions