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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: not that clay on September 25, 2009, 04:07:25 AM
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Anybody catch "Community" tonight? The used "Wise Up." It was great but I half-expected to hear Paul F Tompkins jump in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAuNiyEbiKA
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Am I off base in thinking that its usage might have actually had its basis more in The Best Show than in Magnolia? Tom, you should totally sue that guy Dan Harmon.
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I'm sorry to say this for such a "too cool for school" comedy crowd, but the furious Chinese Spanish teacher's monologue - particularly "it's none of your business, ok?" and his fake tittering laugh - got about 15 rewinds on the DVR. The show itself is ok, but that bit was pretty awesome.
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I'm sorry to say this for such a "too cool for school" comedy crowd, but the furious Chinese Spanish teacher's monologue - particularly "it's none of your business, ok?" and his fake tittering laugh - got about 15 rewinds on the DVR. The show itself is ok, but that bit was pretty awesome.
No need to hide it Buffcoat, that bit was great.
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I'm sorry to say this for such a "too cool for school" comedy crowd, but the furious Chinese Spanish teacher's monologue - particularly "it's none of your business, ok?" and his fake tittering laugh - got about 15 rewinds on the DVR. The show itself is ok, but that bit was pretty awesome.
No need to hide it Buffcoat, that bit was great.
I might've liked it more if I wasn't so sick of Ken Jeong. There have been a few things that made me laugh in the first two episodes but I've been very disappointed with the show so far.
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I'm with jbissell: not completely won over, and I'm not a fan of Ken Jeong.
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See? 2 kewl 4 skool.
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I'm sorry to say this for such a "too cool for school" comedy crowd, but the furious Chinese Spanish teacher's monologue - particularly "it's none of your business, ok?" and his fake tittering laugh - got about 15 rewinds on the DVR. The show itself is ok, but that bit was pretty awesome.
The way the did the campus protest won me over. I'm unbelievably earnest about my liberal politics. I hate it when the squares send up the hippies. I hate that Mike Judge stuff. So I really appreciated the way the campus protest thing was just loopy and insane. It wasn't putting them down for being earnest, it was just really goofy. You know, like when Tom says he voted for Lyndon LaRouche.
That and the insane dialogue montage set to "Wise Up." If you don't score that as a base hit your standards are just too high.
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Do you mean Tom didn't really vote for LaRouche? Than what the hell have I been standing in front of this Post Office for?
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I think these first two episodes have been good in kind of establishing the characters and I have laughed so I don't consider it a let down at all. Although after all the good buzz I was hoping for more laughs per episode (LPE) than I'm averaging. I'll stick with it though.
And the use of "Wise Up" was great. And Ken Jeong is still funny in my book.
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I'm giving it one or two more episodes because I haven't liked it at all. Not that I can't like two new comedies but Modern Family was a lot better.
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I'm with Snogrog on Ken, he hasn't worn out his welcome in my book yet. The show is a bit disappointing after all the hype but the one thing that I have to give the show credit for is they are using Chevy well. Not too silly, not too much, they're easing him back to the right side of comedy. Maybe he'll narrate a Fletch prequel after all.
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i laughed out loud at the "talk to Jeff about his tardiness" joke.
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I'm sorry to say this for such a "too cool for school" comedy crowd, but the furious Chinese Spanish teacher's monologue - particularly "it's none of your business, ok?" and his fake tittering laugh - got about 15 rewinds on the DVR. The show itself is ok, but that bit was pretty awesome.
I didn't like Ken Jeong in The Hangover, but I thought that was the best part of the episode. I hope they tone down Abed's pop culture references; that could get annoying in a hurry.
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I think its pretty good.
Obviously they will need to tune things up.
If they hit their stride it will be a really funny show.
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I thought that Ken Jeong bit was fucking TERRIBLE. He's done that "beard stroking chinese guy" bit in like 4 different shows/movies at this point, hasn't he?
UNFUNNY.
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I like the show. And since I teach at a community college with like 11 thousand students, I think I get 11000 votes.
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So. Searching for "Community" wasn't easy, but I lived and will assume this is the only related thread. I just finished the season 1 dvd and am kind of blown away at how a show that started as faintly amusing, but also annoyingly self-aware, flourished this much over the course of its first season to end so brilliantly. The first sign of greatness was the amazingly odd school mascot, but the chicken fingers and paintball episodes late in the season are two of the most ambitious and well-executed genre parodies I've seen on tv maybe ever. I generally don't even care about parodies, mainly because they're rarely so inspired. I mean, in my opinion those episodes crush that dated stuff in Spaced, for example. I'm almost worried about catching up with season 2 now in case its not up to snuff (probably unfounded... I hope)
It bums me out that this show is probably heading toward cancellation but it's too good not to eventually develop the Arrested Development-sized cult following it deserves. The fact that Donald Glover is obviously going to be a star won't hurt its chances.
Also, Ken Jeong started as an awful weak link but ended up providing what I thought was the greatest moment of the series in the paintball episode.
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The first sign of greatness was the amazingly odd school mascot, but the chicken fingers and paintball episodes late in the season are two of the most ambitious and well-executed genre parodies I've seen on tv maybe ever. I generally don't even care about parodies, mainly because they're rarely so inspired.
On just about any other show, that paintball episode would've been the typical "jump the shark" moment but somehow Community made it one of their best episodes. Season 2 has been strong so far, no need to fear. Having John Oliver pop up again the last few weeks has been a nice little touch.
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i don't have any poignant analysis, but i'm watching season 1 on dvd and i think it's great.
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At the risk of sounding like a real jerk, I haven't watched the show just because the people I work with think it's great, which is usually the kiss of death. However, it sounds like I need to give this a shot.
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Excellent use of ABBA in the Halloween episode.
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Besides Perfect Couples and Outsourced, Thursday night is the best night ever. Except Tuesday, of course.
Any thoughts on all the comebacks? I thought all were great, though P&R is now my favorite. I loved when Ed Helms got made at the DJ not picking a deep Dave Matthews cut.
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That lead guy in Outsourced is the worst. Everyone else is just boring.
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On the other hand, every single character in Parks and Rec is so great. Missing you, Mark Brendanawicz.
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On the other hand, every single character in Parks and Rec is so great. Missing you, Mark Brendanawicz.
For real. Every character on that show would be the best character on another sitcom.
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I'd love to see a Jerry spin-off, where every little thing that has ever made him happy gets made fun of.