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Community: Season 4 Premiere February 7, Old Timeslot
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She is the worst. Team Annie! let old wounds be freshly opened sir.
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Also, the last episode is actually good and bad at the same time, until someone watches it, then it collapses into one of the two positions.
how boring!
There, I said it. How controversial.
And the leotard didn't complement Britta, or many people for that matter. The episode where she wears the red dress, however, is fantastic
This is basically the core of your argument and why you are wrong. Community isn't about realism. Most shows aren't. Realism is often a dull affair that gets in the way of storytelling. Realism blows. If the characters in Community behaved realistically for even a second, this plot would never have happened. Hardly any of the show's stories would have happened, or could have happened. It's not a realistic show in any capacity.
What matters in fiction (because it is fiction and therefore by definition not real) is internal consistency, and Community has plenty of that, this episode included.
You've got a warped view of what's important to show in a story. You're upset with the episode's end because they don't really react to Mr. Rad's outburst, but they do. They react with bafflement and vague horror before he runs off. What happens to him after that? Irrelevant. He probably gets caught, since he confessed to murdering people in front of an entire crowd. Showing him get arrested isn't important. It isn't. It would break the flow. Showing the other characters react seriously to having dealt with a murderer also isn't necessary, because even though he killed people, Mr. Rad is hard to take seriously. Vague horror followed by relief (which is how they reacted in the episode) is a perfectly appropriate response, especially when you consider the rest of the show.
The music as also fine. Troy and Abed's rap was great, Shirley's song was great, Abed and Troy apealing to Pierce's baby-boomer self-centeredness was great. You say there was no conflict there, but that would be wrong. In Pierce's case, for instance, yeah, he was open to flattery. Which is why they appeal to that through song. Just telling him that hey, baby-boomers are great! wouldn't have won him over. The song was an essential part of his recruitment. The only case where your whole "there was no conflict!" thing even remotely applies is Annie's song to Jeff, because he's not won over at the end of it, or at least not because of Annie's increasingly creepy performance. He is, however, in a significantly more vulnerable position, and it's no stretch at all to assume that they would be able to convert him off-screen.
"Show, don't tell" is important, but "show" doesn't refer to literally just showing you exactly how something went down instead of telling you with words, it refers to the whole act of giving the audience enough information to draw their own conclusions as well.
And you don't seem to grasp that. And, again, you make the mistake of thinking that realism is in any way important, when internal consistency is the main thing.
edit: Whoops, people have moved on. Didn't mean to have this thing drag on further.
I feel like you should get some award for this. Consider yourself awarded.
This isn't a "worship Community" thread, it is a "discuss and debate Community" thread. I would say that, yeah, if two people want to debate something you have two choices: engage them, or suffer through the debate. Or both, I guess.
I'm no mod, but that's just how it is. It's not "threadshitting" to debate Community in a Community thread in Debate & Discourse.
"Yeah, my favorite Christmas tradition is trimming the Hellraiser."
God, I'm going to miss this show.
I liked that line a lot.
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Also, does the cast ACTUALLY hate Chevy? I can never figure out if its a gag or legit.
Edit...redux: And I found this, which I figure you might enjoy:
http://www.nbc.com/community/video/the-darker-side-of-community/1348853/?__cid=thefilter
I don't think they hate him, but he is a notorious pain in the ass to work with. Like a lot of jokes on this show there is some truth to it, but also a big heap of exaggeration. The purest meta-gag they have going is about how Yvette (who doesn't drink) is a raging alcoholic (this is on the S1 DVD commentaries if you haven't heard it) and it bled into the show in the bar episode in S2.
I mean, aside from the fact that Allison Brie is obviously hot, the song itself was incredibly disturbing/creepy.
I doubt jeff would run straight to britta after finally banging Annie.
Unless... he wanted a threesome D:
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He didn't; he was just standing there in the hall when Britta found him, with a stupid grin on his face. It all makes sense!
The Troy/Abed rap was easily my favorite.
I also have to think that this easily goes into my top 5 community episodes.
Hooray!
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No way; it'd be really out of character for Annie, who's always placed emphasis on actual, meaningful relationships and been grossed out by Jeff's casual encounters. It'd also be really out of character for Jeff specifically in regards to Annie, as Annie sexualizing herself to Jeff in any way tends to make him push back hard in an attempt to avoid taking advantage of her.
That said, I would be shocked if something hadn't happened there; either another song or a repeat of their encounter in Abed's timeline during "Chaos Theory". Harmon really loves inverting traditional "will they/won't they" relationships and sneaking crap in under the radar, so I'm automatically suspicious of any scene where it seems that there's more to it than meets the eye.
It was disturbing as all hell, which is why it worked so well on so many levels. It was funny at face value, it was funny because it was Annie trying to be sexy but still goofing it up because she's Annie, it was funny because it was such a disturbingly accurate commentary on the sexualization of women in a lot of Christmas media. Just too great, and Jeff's horrified facial reactions made it.
I guess because among Jeff vs Troy vs Abed, Troy is always going to win. Always.
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1. We know Jeff wouldn't be easily turned, since he hates Glee more than anyone, and by the end of her bit ("are you doing a bit"), he still isn't turned.
2. Boop de boop de doop doop SEX
3. Just as Jeff is the Protaganist here, in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Protaganist usually gets turned, but you never see him get turned and it isn't revealed until its too late. Just like when Britta finds Jeff in the hall, at that point we knew Annie tried, but it didn't seem to have worked..so she must have had done something else..
4. That Grin on his face..they totally had sex.
That said, they've demonstrated that they're not averse to romantic encounters of a less extreme nature, so something very well could have happened. They could also whip up some offscreen justification for why they'd be comfortable randomly having sex a la Jeff and Britta's offscreen relationship in S2, which would also work.
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The Jeff/Britta scene was a bit different, though, as that wasn't actually trying to conceal the fact that they did it. A better comparison would be to S2, specifically Britta's remark about Jeff's underwear (which is, incidentally, one of the three parts of the awesome season-spanning Beetlejuice joke).
That said, I really do agree that there's no way they'd treat something of that significance so casually. Harmon knows how dedicated the Jeff/Annie community is, he loves the Jeff/Annie community, and I don't think he'd slap them in the face that overtly. While I expect the traditional "will they/won't they" to be subverted with these characters, I think it'll still be in a manner which attaches slightly more import to the events than we just saw, because Annie isn't the kind of character to engage in that lightly. Neither is Jeff specifically in regards to Annie, for that matter.
That being said, remember, being in the Glee Club is apparently like being on Ecstasy, and entails memory-loss afterwards. Nobody in the group was really in their right minds this episode, with the probable exception of Abed, who I don't think was actually under the Glee influence.
You're probably right. And it's even funnier because Troy is the least sexualized of those three. Hell, maybe even including Pierce. Troy had a couple of random scenes regarding women/dates in Season one and some flirty stuff with Britta, but not much else. Pierce had the escort (Sharon Lawrence's character) and that entire episode with the Chinese girl in season 2.
What, no love for the Dean?
And they weren't in their normal states of mind, most definitely, but nobody was actually acting out of character; portions of their personality were just accentuated or brought to the surface.
Troy did have Sexy Dracula, which was great.
Wow this is like the age-old debate over whether or not Hamlet ever slept with Ophelia.
I'm going to argue the same way I argue with regard to Hamlet and Ophelia: no fucking way.
And yes I just compared Community to Shakespeare.