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I wish there were a word for the pleasure I am feeling at your misfortune.

― Ned Trifle, Friday, December 2, 2011 8:40 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^^^ I totally lost my shit at that joke

― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:43 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

thirded. to me that was the apex of the episode (that and the soccer ball bit)

the look on Jeff's face when Shirley revealed her foosball tyrant past was also amazing; they've been pushing McHale pretty far outside of his sarcastically inspirational box this season

oh yeah, even the week before when he weeped after getting fired from the Dean role in the commercial.

I kind of want this show to end this season -- it'll end at the top of its game, and we won't have to suffer lamenting "how bad the show got in later years" like with every other show I've ever liked :/.

"Sam, Ziggy says there's an 80% chance you can't leave Woodstock until you bone these hippies!"

http://i.imgur.com/e15Qa.jpg

xp I heard that, but didn't make the Quantum Leap connection until just now. LOL

Annie as Bale had me dying.

Yeah me too, 'this scene was a challenge for all involved' or w/ev had me falling about. Also the schadenfreud joke and the foosball man gag!

"Sam, Ziggy says there's an 80% chance you can't leave Woodstock until you bone these hippies!"

― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Friday, 2 December 2011 22:15 (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

who said this?

it was from the tv that the landlord was watching

http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/13675680180/crucial-update-on-my-bodily-functions

Dan posts about his stomach flu, goes on from there.

...Here’s a slightly less scientific but immediately present factor that makes me see very clearly that Community’s story is not over: you guys are fucking nuts, in the best way possible. And you are beautiful and kind and honest. And there is a magic emanating from you. You are in lockstep with a universal rhythm, here. You put our show on the cover of TV Guide BEFORE any of this was going down. It looks from a distance like we got yanked and THEN there was this pity party of clicking on that poll to make some point, but that is not what happened, I was there the whole time watching. First, you won us that cover. And TV Guide swore us to secrecy. Then, NBC rescheduled us. Then TV Guide came to the set and took the photos of the cast and swore them to secrecy. We were half wondering if the network would pull strings to kill the cover because, well, you know, awkward much? My point is that when I look at the timeline, I don’t see a boring cause-effect chain. I see a weird, ironic, poetic blossom of mythology. I see story points. I see the folds in the universal cootie catcher, I see an absurdly happy ending...

This episode was a good example of why Shirley is awesome and the haters are wrong. Glad they resurrected the dynamic of Jeff and Shirley as bitching partners from S1. I would happily watch more of the Germans as well, they need to pop up in an end scene sometime.

She's so much better not being a religous strawperson.

Quite like that the thing with Shirley is that she so wants to be a good person but she's actually meanspirited as hell, and that the group likes the honestly meanspirited Shirley much more than the dishonest Christian mother type.

Matt OTM

i love the pictures of her on the walls in the bar episode

haha yes, and when she threatened the bouncer into not revealing that she was a former regular

tbh, the thing that makes the hyper-judgy Christian persona work for me is the undercurrent of darkness that fuels it, generating sweetly smiled cruelty like her Halloween story

Also I watched an old episode of Curb the other week and the actress that plays Shirley turns up as an air hostess and I was genuinely weirded out to hear her speaking normally and not doing either her Miss Piggy or Samuel L Jackson voice.

She also does a voice on the utterly ABOMINABLE Pound Puppies cartoon, which I hate but my daughter loves.

http://j.static-locatetv.com/images/content/4/266418_pound_puppies.jpg

wtf, those aren't Pound Puppies, those are just regular cartoon dogs

children's television is a wasteland of unrecognizable '80s remakes as much as the summer movie season at this point

#puppiez

You have NO IDEA how bad it is, it makes the 80s pound puppies cartoon look like Miyazaki.

lol my only exposure to kid's TV these days is stuff like Adventure Time, Regular Show and The Amazing World of Gumball, so you're right re: me not having any idea

also I've been lolling at "#puppiez" a little too hard, maybe I should get lunch

This is why I go on about how great the new My Little Pony cartoon is, because the rest of them are so terrible that's it amazes me that anything legitimately funny and/or good can get made.

Ponybro?

http://image.spreadshirt.com/image-server/image/product/18875279/view/1/type/png/width/378/height/378/brony-brohoof-v3-t-shirts.png

oh my god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTQz0rLXic0

OH MY GOD

sorry everyone for taking the Community thread down the bronyhole

wow that sounds disgusting

http://www.welovefine.com/img/p/903-2226-large.jpg

BRONY BRONY BRONY

I profusely apologize to my Community friends for involving this thread in a discussion of pound puppies and Ponies.

http://www.nerdist.com/2011/12/the-indoor-kids-22-church-of-skyrim-2-with-dan-harmon/

Not sure what this means, but I'm hoping it doesn't mean NBC has shitcanned this week's ep too:

danharmon Dan Harmon
If you'd like to view half of this week's episode, NBC has dumped it online in pieces as if it was so much garbage. Merry Christmas.
3 minutes ago

iirc he's not a big fan of web teasers and having lots of ads spoiling too much about episodes before they air

hes referring to the episode previews/commercials

Alright, I just noticed maura's :( reply among a couple others and wondered if there was more to the story.

there's a big grassroots campaign to just talk about community on twitter until whiney explodes

haha

I might start using twitter again for that purpose.

would assist

We should all pick an hour to just bombard @1000TimesYes with Community updates.

Maybe live tweet this Christmas episode for him, all of us.

MasonMaguire Mason Maguire
@danharmon Are you sure disparaging the network that's *this* close to pulling your show is a good idea?
3 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
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@danharmon
Dan Harmon
@MasonMaguire yeah, I'll try apologizing for them and kissing their ass in every interview for another 2 years. IT'S THIS CLOSE TO WORKING.

:(

Troy & Abed's rap from tomorrow night's episode.

:(

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6664700/save-greendale-with-the-cast-of-community

das Butt

That guy is like human FroYo.

Genius episode tonight.

can't wait for the Annie gifs.

"Me so Christmas, me so Christmas."

Last two eps have been A+.

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!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/387576_10150505268049617_103137454616_8585653_189104951_n.jpg

and the other: http://www.jonnyeveson.com/product/inspector-spacetime-poster

ok, i'll admit that's kinda great

I am watching the first season on Hulu and holy shit re: the April Fool's episode and the billiards episode

we just finished season 1 and yeah those are about when it hit its stride

Oh dude happy belated birthday!

thank you! i have been celebrating by working through three planned vacation days!

Sweet!

wait what is the april fools joke? is that britta and the chang frog?

Yes

I got the s1 DVDs for Christmas. I'd actually forgotten how much I loved those episodes, even before they went all high-concept. Just great humour, stories, and characters. "Intro to Film" is slept on imo. And I forgot that the Dean actually first blackmailed Jeff in "Football, Feminism, and You".

Brie does seem to overact a little in the early episodes. I wonder if she got better later or if she just became so hot that I wasn't paying attention anymore.

Also forgot that Abed became Batman for the first time in the Mexican Halloween episode!

I think Brie just found her footing w/the role and it just so happened that it coincided w/her bringing the sexy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WZ2hYXAocTc