This is moderately entertaining, but it would be otherworldly if we were seeing the study room (or mostly seeing the study room) and Abed was describing his hallucination.
Not much point in doing stop-motion animation, then. If this were a normal episode, I'd agree with you.
Eh the stop-motion should be a means not an end. It doesn't work for me that much. You lose a lot of the performances this way IMO
Yeah you lose a LOT of the performances without faces I was hit by that almost instantly
but the episode also had a lot of emotional and psychological depth--that was well done
shirley CAN sing, if thats actually nicole yvette brown
At the same time, it wouldn't be that surprising if Dino Stamatopoulos had those things in real life just because.
Oh he most definitely has real starburns, at least he did at this years comic-con, though he has to dye the gray out for the show
He wound up growing them. But you can see in the early episodes (the pilot, maybe?) that they look very different, and they talked in the commentaries about them being prosthetic.
As I was watching the episode, I wondered what line would be used for the new thread title. As much as I wanted it to be Christmas Pterodactyl, I saw the tag. The very last line, I knew. Lo and behold, the first thread I see upon checking the forums, "Troy and Abed in Stopmotion!" PA, you never disappoint.
[Edit] Also, Pierce coming back at the end almost makes up for the fact that they've been underusing his character for the past few weeks.
I guess I'm the odd man out, because I didn't care for this one at all (and I've loved every episode up to now).
I was hoping it would all end up being a dream or one of Abed's movies or something. I hate the idea that he was actually delusional, and that the people trying to snap him out of it were treated as the bad guys who didn't get it. The worst part was him putting down Britta for trying to help him, and apparently making her cry.
For me, it just went way beyond "Abed is being wacky" and into "Abed is seriously disturbed."
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I was hoping for more chang, i saw him peaking around the corner when they first entered christmasland.
I guess I'm the odd man out, because I didn't care for this one at all (and I've loved every episode up to now).
I was hoping it would all end up being a dream or one of Abed's movies or something. I hate the idea that he was actually delusional, and that the people trying to snap him out of it were treated as the bad guys who didn't get it. The worst part was him putting down Britta for trying to help him, and apparently making her cry.
For me, it just went way beyond "Abed is being wacky" and into "Abed is seriously disturbed."
They weren't bad for trying to help him, they were bad for lieing to him about what they were doing. And Abed isn't wacky he most likely has a serious mental disorder that makes him incapable of connecting with other people. Several times in the series it's implied that he has Asperger's, although that's not for sure just a likely reason for his personality.
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edited December 2010
The Britta rebuff was entirely acceptable. Britta's idea of 'help' at the start of the episode was to let him deal with it himself and alone, through a therapist. Only at the end of the episode did she get that, as a friend, she had to be part of the help. Intelligent caring vs emotional caring.
I guess I'm the odd man out, because I didn't care for this one at all (and I've loved every episode up to now).
I was hoping it would all end up being a dream or one of Abed's movies or something. I hate the idea that he was actually delusional, and that the people trying to snap him out of it were treated as the bad guys who didn't get it. The worst part was him putting down Britta for trying to help him, and apparently making her cry.
For me, it just went way beyond "Abed is being wacky" and into "Abed is seriously disturbed."
Well, Abed has always been somewhat disturbed. Remember one of the first episodes of season 1 where he manipulated Jeff and Britta into acting similarly to his parents so he could film them and show it to his father as a way to express his feelings? Those aren't actions a normal person takes.
Also, he didn't put Britta down for trying to help him, he put her down for trying to help him in her way, instead of the way Abed obviously needed. He even explicitly says it to her, both in speech and song. She thinks she always knows best, and can be controlling. She doesn't believe that others can have the right answers. She doesn't have the faith that they can figure things out on their own or fend for themselves.
Not all of the others were bad guys. Annie and Troy helped him continue his journey, and Pierce stayed with him until the end. Jeff, Shirley, and Britta - the know-it-alls - were punted because while they all wanted to help Abed, they weren't willing to help him in the way he needed to be helped. They wanted to do it on their terms, not his.
Abed's prism is TV and movies. His meta comments aren't meant as a joke from him. It's how he processes the world. And, really, how is stop motion animation fundamentally different than Robocop vision?
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The Lost thing bugged me a little bit but it was still very clever.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Exactly. It was perfect.
The Christmas episode last year. Sensitive Night, Appropriate Night.
She was singing while decorating the tree ("The Lord, The Lord, THE LORD!") and then after the fight ("Function with relative ease").
first season
good episode. sweet.
Starburns was one of the writers!
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To be fair, he has a little experience with stop-motion.
starburns wasn't a great brilliant original flash of an idea just for this show?
this guy possibly had star shaped sideburns just because and they ran with the idea?
what does one do with star shaped sideburns in real life?
The same things that normal people do.
But with star burns.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I usually hate cheeseball Christmas specials, but man, this episode hit all the right buttons.
Dammit Community, stop being so good at everything. You're making the rest of TV look bad.
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and willy wonka references.
oh and songs.
and tasers because of songs.
so many good things here.
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The perfect amount of Chang.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Abed dancing on the cars, Abed 'playing' with the Changman
Oh he most definitely has real starburns, at least he did at this years comic-con, though he has to dye the gray out for the show
Yeah you lose a LOT of the performances without faces I was hit by that almost instantly
but the episode also had a lot of emotional and psychological depth--that was well done
shirley CAN sing, if thats actually nicole yvette brown
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
[Edit] Also, Pierce coming back at the end almost makes up for the fact that they've been underusing his character for the past few weeks.
Yep
Where he wrote one of their best sketches:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrlS9_n8GX4
I think he also wrote the audition sketch
For me, it just went way beyond "Abed is being wacky" and into "Abed is seriously disturbed."
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Also, he didn't put Britta down for trying to help him, he put her down for trying to help him in her way, instead of the way Abed obviously needed. He even explicitly says it to her, both in speech and song. She thinks she always knows best, and can be controlling. She doesn't believe that others can have the right answers. She doesn't have the faith that they can figure things out on their own or fend for themselves.
Not all of the others were bad guys. Annie and Troy helped him continue his journey, and Pierce stayed with him until the end. Jeff, Shirley, and Britta - the know-it-alls - were punted because while they all wanted to help Abed, they weren't willing to help him in the way he needed to be helped. They wanted to do it on their terms, not his.
Abed's prism is TV and movies. His meta comments aren't meant as a joke from him. It's how he processes the world. And, really, how is stop motion animation fundamentally different than Robocop vision?