Thursday, January 23, 2014

Good Story 075: Community



And so it was that Julie and Scott began to describe themselves walking, and as they described themselves walking so did Abed confirm they walked. At the end of the walking, they sit down to some chicken fingers in the cafeteria and talk about Community. Episode 75! Cool cool cool.


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15 comments:

  1. I'm glad you brought up the Religion episode, because that was the episode that really rubbed me wrong. It was the typical white-washing you see whenever spiritual matters come up on TV nowadays so nobody gets offended or is required to think. It was really disappointing to watch especially when the pilot was so clearly anti-relativistic and wasn't afraid to speak about anything else that came up. Otherwise the show was very refreshing. It also doesn't help that the rest of the plot of the holiday episode was rather hokey and predictable by sitcom standards. I saw it as a secularist and even then I didn't find it satisfying on any level.

    Other than that I've quite liked the show, but then I've always been a sitcom fan from Frasier to Titus and still laugh at Al Bundy falling off the roof. One of my favorites is NewsRadio which has Phil Hartman in it in one of his best roles, but it also has Stephen Root who might be the funniest man that nobody knows the name of (he's also Bill on King of the Hill and Milton in Office Space) and a whole cast that works so well together. It's a shame Mr. Hartman was murdered, because he was a real talent and the show was his final work.

    If you like Bob's Burgers, I HIGHLY recommend the creator's previous series called "Home Movies" which is also an animated sitcom only about a boy who makes home movies that are based on his life (only he doesn't realize it at all) and those around him. The series is fairly underrated and unknown, but it was why I was looking so forward to Bob's Burgers when it came on. It was refreshing to see an adult comedy that didn't rely heavily on sex for jokes that has become rarer and rarer.

    McGuirk: We all live in our own prisons, Brendon.
    Brendon: Yeah.
    McGuirk: I mean, we're all trapped in these bodies.
    Brendon: Yeah.
    McGuirk: You have to go to school. That's a prison.
    Brendon: That is a prison.
    McGuirk: I have to be a soccer coach.
    Brendon: That's a prison.
    McGuirk: That's a prison.
    Brendon: This conversation...
    McGuirk: It's a prison.
    Brendon: It's a prison. Can't get out of it.
    *Silence*

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    1. That made me laugh out loud. After I catch up on Bob's Burgers I'll definitely have to look for Home Movies. Thanks for that tip. And I still miss Phil Hartman. His untimely death was so terrible on so many levels. He was supposed to be a really lovely person.

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  2. NewsRadio is also one of my favorites. Clearly I have to start watching Bob's Burgers!

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  3. Have never watched Community (sitcoms are 'not my scene' as they say), but loved this episode. I have many friends who are devotees of both Community and Arrested Development...it's good to know that there are episodes worth making a fuss over, so I won't have to suffer unwittingly! :)

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  4. Hi JoAnna! Thanks very much. If you decide to watch, I suggest giving the first episode a look. After that, roam at will. :)

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  5. I was feeling a bit ho-hum until the LAVA episode of this week. Great fun, I laughed hysterically. Of course, it helps that I used to spend a lot of time not touching the ground with my cousins. :)

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    1. Agreed. Halfway though I told my husband I'd buy the dvds of this season just for this episode. "Inchworm!"

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  6. Your commentary on Lost's ending was entirely wrong. That is NOT how it ended nor what was happening all along. You confused the flash sideways with the real world! I hate when people do this because it undermines s fantastic show!

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    1. Didn't it take like half the show's run to say what the monster in the FIRST episode was? I don't think audience members can be faulted for losing interest with pacing that off in order to keep audience's strung along.

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    2. Mea culpa, Karl. A quick trip to Wikipedia shows you are right: It is implied that a few survivors return home later, while others remain living happily on the island. The series finale reveals that the flash-sideways timeline is actually a form of limbo, where some of the survivors and other characters from the island are reunited after having died because their time on the island had been the most important part of their existence. In the end, the survivors are all reunited in a church where they "move on" together.And, yet, I still don't care about the series in the least. When it began to resemble Myst, which was fun but I eventually quit because there was so little reward for my work, I just didn't care anymore. :-)

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  7. And you are more than welcome to that opinion. Just an annoyance of mine that so many get that wrong!

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    1. Now I'll know the real story when I complain about Lost! Many thanks! :-D

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  8. Hey guys, I was looking over a sci-fi/fantasy list for future reads and I was wondering if either of you have read Neal Stephenson? I've been recommended Snow Crash before by a friend- is it worth trying first? I always feel like I'm always just missing something good.

    Oh, this was the list, by the way:

    http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg

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  9. Hiya JD!

    Julie and I are as split as can be on Snow Crash. I gave it five stars - just loved it. She gave it one star. So... not so much love there.

    At the time I read it, the book was unique. Irreverent, fun, snarky, cyberpunk. I still have very fond memories of it.

    I have no prediction on your enjoyment of it. Julie is not the only friend I have who disliked the book, and I am not the only one I know who loved it.

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  10. Thanks for the impressions, Scott! I guess this will have to be one I'll have to experience for myself since it seems so polarizing overall. But few things will turn me off of a book unless it's too meta. Like, on an absurd scale.

    Sort of like the flashback episode of Community were Troy has a nosebleed and begins screaming because Abed's flashback inside a flashback inside a flashback is frying his brain.

    Anything else is fair game!

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