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They didn't promote the Glee episode at all -- the online previews didn't show up until two days before -- so I doubt they'll take any extra measures to promote a rerun from last year (untouchably brilliant as it is).

Two important things to remember when I sound nonchalant about Community's fate:

a) I basically resent serial TV (too much investment and time, same reason I resent comic books), and would prefer to experience as much as possible in "Trade Paperback" Form. However, my wife is a TV enthusiast and I wind up getting invested in more shows than I'd like to be.

b) a Community I'm not watching would bum me out (the fact that the simpsons is not worth my time STILL bums me out) and I'd rather it die while it was young and beautiful. which it is.

man i knew that after this episode tumblr would be filled with animated gifs and people saying "best episode ever" but i thought that ilx would as usual provide an oasis of sanity, guess not though, this episode was really really subpar, not "bad" per se but i didnt laugh out loud once and the glee parody felt so forced and awkward and stupid and like... song parodies? really?

otm

offtm

i did lol @ "diminishing returns" "what's a dimibidibwibibdib"

i enjoyed how blasé everyone was after mr. rad confessed to murdering the first glee club, like "oh that guy tricked us" rather than "wow he killed eight people."

PS this is who mr. rad was based on from glee, mr. schuester AKA mr. schue:

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/feb2010/9/7/mirror-22-02-10-image-2-485221691.jpg

He is the worst person in the world.

anyway the more i think about it the more this episode was a total success -- annie's sexy idiot song, the baby boomer song and the children who don't know about jesus song were all perfection

I loved how cynically contrived each of those songs was as a recruitment tool, especially Shirley's.

is it someone's birthday today??? public schools won't tell me!

This episode was hilarious and it was more because of the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" vibe than it was because it was a musical. Britta going up to Jeff and having him turn around going "LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" and her subsequent scream was just money.

yup

yeah just the bland laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa was the lolingest part of that

also the implication that everyone else had to be brainwashed via a specific type of song geared towards their sensibilities in order to get sucked into the glee club, but Jeff could just go "LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" at Britta and after a good scream she's totally down

like, it actually subtly played to the character's total lack of connection to music

I got a Christmastime for me. I got a Christmastime for a tree.

like, it actually subtly played to the character's total lack of connection to music

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haha yes i remember thinking "that's all it takes?"

Pretty good ep. I really hate musicals and would never watch Glee willingly and was going to stop watching until Annie's dance. A pretty enjoyable episode. I liked how Pierce took credit for the perfection of music by the baby boomers. And the "Laaaaa" part was LOL, otm. And yay for animated gifs:

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i was cringing that entire scene.

prefer it in animated gif form.

I am reasonably certain that scene was supposed to induce cringing, hence Jeff's commentary at the end.

I enjoyed Pierce's reaction to the Baby Boomer Santa song. He looked so proud.

I loved that.

yeah and the dylan impression lol

http://i.imgur.com/mNT2E.jpg

peace

Yeah Troy as Dylan was fantastic. Although Childish Gambino has kind of killed the funny in Troy rapping, A-B-E-D had me laughing twice as much.

yeah i was kind of stunned at how bad the rapping was

I wasn't, because I've heard Childish Gambino records. I think Donald Glover is so funny but his rapping is tragic.

i mean i think he's a terrible "rap artist" but on a technical level i've heard him do better than that at least

Did not know that Dan Harmon busted up with his girlfriend this summer. Maybe this explains all the self-taken bubble bath photos he's posting on Twitter.

she used to take the pics for him?

I watched this again yesterday and Annie's "Wha's a 'dimwahwahwah wetwahwah'?" babytalk was hilarious

xxp yeah, i remember reading about the breakup (and a few "love is dead"-type things he posted to tumblr) and wondering if it would seep into his writing somehow this season. i don't think it has, really.

so i was listening to dan harmon on that nerdist podcast and it really alternated between somewhat enjoyable and total pseudo-science bullshit uncomfortable nonsense. i ultimately had to turn it off. that podcast has just the worst two hosts.

It makes me sad that there will be no Community on tonight and yet Whitney continues to exist.

Whitney's getting swapped with Up All Night soon, isn't it?

Not soon enough.

I thought it was very VERY telling that Chelsea Handler did a guest appearance on Whitney as her shrink and was EFFORTLESSLY a bazillion times funnier than everyone in the regular cast.

still read that everytime as Whiney and not Whitney.

Works either way.

that podcast has just the worst two hosts.

lol, it has three, but two of them are completely indistinguishable (and both are more subdued verions of the main dude)

i am fine w/ no new community tonight because i really needed to see the stop motion ep again

xp wait there are three hosts on that podcast???

oh, you know, i made a mistake. it wasn't the nerdist i was talking about. it was indoor kids. can we plz spend a minute talking about how terrible indoor kids are?

Enh, I think they're okay, but they really need a Jeremy Parish type who actually knows game history, context, the diff between Western & Japanese gamedev philosophies, etc.

the Whitney hate itt makes me very...happy. one episode was enough to make me gag.

Dan himself does Harmontown every once in a while in the space that the Nerdiast guys set up at an L.A. comic shop

the Cheslea Handler love itt makes me very...confused.

Wait where are you seeing Chelsea Handler love, because I know it's not in my post

it actually subtly played to the character's total lack of connection to music

She didn't sing as badly in last year's Christmas episode though. I have to admit I'm still having some trouble with what they're doing with Britta this season.