What do you think about the show "Community?"

[Jayson1]

I was curious because I watched it not to long ago and I fell in Love with it. I mean I had heard the hype but I just assumed it was hype because I am always skeptical of network tv shows. Most are just not that good. I loved Troy and Abed but in reality they were all great. Also liked the supporting players. That Dan Harmon guy seems to be a kind of somewhat unstable person but he does know comedy.

To the 4th season while not great wasn't nearly as bad as I what I was expecting. They did get 6 seasons so I wonder if they will ever get that movie.

Jason

 

[bigdaddy]

Dan Harmon is a crazy asshole who I would never work with in a million years. He seems to be a horrible POS.

However the show was awesome, even the gas leak season 4 was good.

I hope you aren't busy, you have a lot of reading to do.
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/ongoing-community-discussion-thread.135676/

 

[Forbin]

My wife and I are trying it out, watching season one. I find it amusing enough, but she finds the humor sophomoric (no pun intended) and rarely funny. What that means, of course, is that we're not going to keep watching it.

 

[gblews]

I absolutely love Community. I think it is one of the most imaginative, unique, and funny network sitcoms of the last 20 years or so. The only thing I've seen during that time that even comes close is How I Met Your Mother.

I got hooked on the show during season 2 when I tuned into the Halloween episode where Halloween party goers became zombies. Comm had me from that point on. From the paintball episodes, the multiverse episode, the Glee/Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Christmas mash-up, to the Ken Burns style documentary on Abed and Troy's pillow and blanket fort war, I don't recall anything like this from a live action network sitcom.

The show's exquisite knowledge of nerd culture allowed it to send up nerd culture in a way that no other network shows could match. The only thing I didn't like about the show was Chevy Chase, an actor I have always despised. But other than that, it was close to perfection, for me.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I didn't like it.

 

[Tosk]

Loved the first three seasons enough to coast all the way to the end. I don't remember a lot about the last three seasons other than they were okay at best, with a few good episodes sprinkled throughout.

 

[bigdaddy]

I absolutely love Community. I think it is one of the most imaginative, unique, and funny network sitcoms of the last 20 years or so.

I got hooked on the show during season 2 when I tuned into the Halloween episode where Halloween party goers became zombies.

I think that's the first episode I watched and went 'I need to watch this crazy ass show'. Love the Ken Burn blanket fort episode, the L&O episode, changing from Star Wars to Western in the paintball episodes. Just too fucking crazy you never knew what would come next.

I love the season 5 finale where if the show got canceled that means a comet crashed into the Earth and that's canon. Kind of which season 6 never happened.

My wife and I are trying it out, watching season one. I find it amusing enough, but she finds the humor sophomoric (no pun intended) and rarely funny. What that means, of course, is that we're not going to keep watching it.

The show really picks up with Paintball and the later seasons. It's not that the show is laugh out loud funny, it's what they do with the comedy gene, making fun of it is what makes it funny.

I think my favorite seasons would have to be 2-3 and 5. I really loved what they did with 5 and that really lead me to be disappointed with what they did with season 6.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I loved it, even the gas leak year. It wasn't as good, but had its moments.

 

[DonIago]

I love the show, though I never quite felt the same love for Troy and Abed that some others do. It does get going kind of slowly; I think the chicken fingers episode was what clinched me as a fan.

As nobody else has mentioned it, this was also what turned me on to John Oliver!

 

[Jayson1]

I love the show, though I never quite felt the same love for Troy and Abed that some others do. It does get going kind of slowly; I think the chicken fingers episode was what clinched me as a fan.

As nobody else has mentioned it, this was also what turned me on to John Oliver!

For me I became a big fan of John Oliver from "The Daily Show." I was kind of surprised just how much he was in "Community." I was under the impression he was only in a couple of episodes of season 1 and that was it.

Jason

 

[JirinPanthosa]

One of the best TV comedies of all time. Amazing cast, writing that seems to know exactly what I think is cool about everything.

Season 4 sucked. Post 4 good not great.

Where’s my movie?

 

[J.T.B.]

I watched the show from the premiere and thought it had a strong first and second season. After that I felt like it shifted its focus away from being a comedy first and foremost to being... something else, I'm not exactly sure what. The "meta" and "deconstructing" stuff seemed very forced and self-conscious to me, and wasn't funny. Abed delivers a baby in the background of shots, so what? It's not funny. The characters drifted away from what made them funny originally. I think we stopped watching around the middle of season 3. Around the same time, I thought 30 Rock was much stronger and handled the meta thing more deftly, and I still rewatch it, but never have cared much about seeing Community again.

 

[Sophie74656]

It's on my list of things to watch. I always lump it together with Parks and Rec in my head (which I loved)

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I agree the show occasionally got a little over the top with the meta stuff, and the show acknowledged in seasons 5 and 6 that the characters evolved from believable people to cartoon exaggerations. But through season 3 they still consistently came up with amazing nerd-out episode concepts.

The thing I liked the most about season 6 was the idea of the character Frankie Dart who was having nothing of the insanity and calling everybody on their stupid crap.

 

[gblews]

Licensed physician as well as actor/stand-up comic, Ken Jeong (Senor Chang), leaves stage while performing stand-up, to help an audience member who was having a medical emergency.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ken-jeong-jumps-off-stage-042841121.html

No word on whether or not an emergency Changectomy was required.

 

[bigdaddy]

That's the best thing I read all year.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Hopefully she doesn't end up with Changnesia.

 

[thribs]

It was a good show. The paintball episodes are the best.

 

[Riverside2233]

It was a good show. The paintball episodes are the best.

Season one was great. It was all so different from anything else on TV. Without a doubt, S1 Paintball Episode is my favorite. It has some moments in the rest of the series but all starts to go downhill mid S2.

Donald Glover as Troy and Jim Rash as the Dean were great.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I think it hit its stride mid season 1 and didn’t lose steam until the gas leak. I love the crazy nerdy high concept episodes, and when Abed is used as a proxy for fir the audience’s love of television.

#AndAMovie