and how do you keep people watching if they are only watching with one eye open? big flashy anime and rap sequences
― CaptainBurlapSax, Monday, 12 December 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
impressed anew with ilx's ability to suck the fun out of anything
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 December 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
the honeymoon is over mookie
― CaptainBurlapSax, Monday, 12 December 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
Too much overthinkin' goin' on up in this bitch
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― Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Monday, 12 December 2011 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
my bad
― Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Monday, 12 December 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
i read an article today about how community & himym are like 'post-tumblr' where clearly a lot of jokes are written with an internet afterlife in mind--moments made for gifs & hastags
it was all v rmde til i opened this thread
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
thing is people have been like this w/ comedy for the longest time -- i mean seinfeld may be more meme-y than anything actually made in the era of people saying the word "meme" constantly. but now every other fucking show has the title w/ a hashtag in front of it in the corner of the screen or quotes names with @ in front of them in ads instead of magazines or newspapers, so there's a whole self-consciousness about how entertaining audiences is somehow different now that the audience is all having a million public conversations with each other as soon as the show is over.
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
just watched the claymation episode with my sisters, full of renewed love for this show.
― reddening, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
Assuming NBC had any intention of giving Community a bump in order to attract a bit more viewership, they'd do well to rerun the claymation Christmas episode at some point this month.
― In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Monday, 12 December 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
they are, either this week or next week
― reddening, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― pothole pleasures, Monday, 12 December 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
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
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
offtm
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
i did lol @ "diminishing returns" "what's a dimibidibwibibdib"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― reddening, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― reddening, Monday, 12 December 2011 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
He is the worst person in the world.
― Nicole, Monday, 12 December 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 12 December 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
is it someone's birthday today??? public schools won't tell me!
― j., Monday, 12 December 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
yup
― flexidisc, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
yeah just the bland laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa was the lolingest part of that
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
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
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
like, it actually subtly played to the character's total lack of connection to music
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I got a Christmastime for me. I got a Christmastime for a tree.
― Tarfumes the Escape Goat, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
― OH NOES, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:17 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
haha yes i remember thinking "that's all it takes?"
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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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― Emperor Cos Dashit, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
i was cringing that entire scene.
― sir thermo of thinwall, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
prefer it in animated gif form.
I am reasonably certain that scene was supposed to induce cringing, hence Jeff's commentary at the end.
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I enjoyed Pierce's reaction to the Baby Boomer Santa song. He looked so proud.
― Mr. Farmer, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I loved that.
― pothole pleasures, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
yeah and the dylan impression lol
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Monday, 12 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
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peace
― tumblr whine-y (dayo), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was kind of stunned at how bad the rapping was
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't, because I've heard Childish Gambino records. I think Donald Glover is so funny but his rapping is tragic.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
she used to take the pics for him?
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I watched this again yesterday and Annie's "Wha's a 'dimwahwahwah wetwahwah'?" babytalk was hilarious
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― reddening, Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
It makes me sad that there will be no Community on tonight and yet Whitney continues to exist.
― Nicole, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Whitney's getting swapped with Up All Night soon, isn't it?
― OH NOES, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Not soon enough.
― Nicole, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― OH NOES, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
still read that everytime as Whiney and not Whitney.
― big popppa hoy, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Works either way.
― Nicole, Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link