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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.

In what way?

For one, it's a little hard to swallow since they've basically changed her character/personality type without really showing how this is some kind of organic or logical development of her character. (Annie's character has changed as well, for example, but it makes sense as a sort of maturation of her character. Same with Jeff.) Also, I just don't really find the new Britta all that charming or funny some of the time, especially when they go really OTT with her, e.g. in the model UN episode.

Because character development and continuity do seem fairly important in this show, it's a little hard for me to accept that the same character who grudgingly began singing the final song of last year's Christmas episode in a low-key manner is the same character who sang the "Me so Christmas" song on stage in this year's Christmas pageant.

I love doofus Britta but it's a clear case of Homerization. Also Warren Piece was a step too far.

britta is the best thing about this show

britta was the last holdout against the glee mania too though.

Still, her whole attitude was different and, like I said, her singing voice was completely different. Her sense of humour, the way she relates to the other characters have all changed (compare her interactions with Shirley and Annie in last year's Christmas episode.)

i feel like there's a totally logical contrast between the way Britta acts when she's a smug defensive hipster and when she lets her guard down and gets enthusiastic about things. it's what makes her character realistic and, more importantly, hilarious.

i just assumed the difference is that her character is high alla time now

haha that could be it too

"me so christmas, me so merry" was such a perfect callback to "me so hungy"

i feel real spergy questioning this but rly Even In A Heightened Reality who would do that. feels like playing to the people (not me!! I'm way 2 smart for this!!!!) who thought every instance of an Arrested Development character repeating a two- or three-word phrase that had occurred earlier in the series was an intentional super smart callback to another point in the gossamer web of narrative

britta saying "me so _____" >>>>>>>>>> newt calling for "fundamental change"

ppl do have their catchphrases, even on this very borad

i feel like there's a totally logical contrast between the way Britta acts when she's a smug defensive hipster and when she lets her guard down and gets enthusiastic about things. it's what makes her character realistic and, more importantly, hilarious.

I don't feel like she has been developed as a character with those two facets coexisting in her personality though. I feel like she used to be one and has now been turned into the other because the writers got a new idea or something. Maybe I can buy the always-stoned thing...

i dunno to me it fits perfectly in w/ britta's botched jokes going back to season 1

every instance of an Arrested Development character repeating a two- or three-word phrase that had occurred earlier in the series was an intentional super smart callback to another point in the gossamer web of narrative

it was

what the hell is wrong with you people?
community is AWESOME

OK, after watching for the fifth time or so, maybe you are right, Mr Stevenson. Britta does sing much more conventionally when they're carolling at the end so it probably was her getting excited in the pageant when she was still hypnotized. She might have even thought she was doing a punk rock or outsider-art improvisation kind of deal.

Also, I don't know if we've mentioned this or not but Britta really has no fucking clue what the words to the song are, she just knows them in her heart, as Abed said.

http://splitsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/308.jpg

OK, after watching for the fifth time or so, maybe you are right, Mr Stevenson. Britta does sing much more conventionally when they're carolling at the end so it probably was her getting excited in the pageant when she was still hypnotized. She might have even thought she was doing a punk rock or outsider-art improvisation kind of deal.

― EveningStar, Sunday, December 18, 2011 1:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i have posted about britta but afaik i haven't said anything about the way she was singing in that ep

Yeah, I meant you were right about these things:

i feel like there's a totally logical contrast between the way Britta acts when she's a smug defensive hipster and when she lets her guard down and gets enthusiastic about things. it's what makes her character realistic and, more importantly, hilarious.

i dunno to me it fits perfectly in w/ britta's botched jokes going back to season 1

and I was extrapolating. It made sense in my head.

rendering the study group as X-men:

http://www.avivor.com/english/

http://www.jonnyeveson.com/

Inspector Spacetime posters!

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