Jean, Community is fantastic.
I'm surprised how much I'm liking 30 Rock. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are amazing, and the stuff says Jack Donaghy is brilliant.
Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.
Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
Amy - Nov 04, 2011 6:45:20 pm PDT #4547 of 8625
Because books.
Lee - Nov 04, 2011 9:18:57 pm PDT #4548 of 8625
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So, if I was to finally give up on catching up on previous seasons of Community and just watch what's currently available on Hulu, would I be missing out on crucial backstory or otherwise diminishing the goodness?
Mostly I think you'll be missing a lot of the inside jokes, like why it was funny in this year's Halloween ep that Troy wanted to go to the school Halloween party to eat the taco meat the dean bought, rather than anything major arc wise.
Polter-Cow - Nov 05, 2011 6:10:27 am PDT #4549 of 8625
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Was the taco meat a reference to something?
Oh, duh.
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 6:39:42 am PDT #4550 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's the sort of show that rewards (and encourages) rewatching anyway, so you'll get the jokes soon enough. Probably ones we missed the first time round too. They're pretty jam packed.
-t - Nov 05, 2011 6:44:56 am PDT #4551 of 8625
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, good. I am jumping in. And if I can ever manage to watch a few DVDs, Season 1 is up next in the Netflix queue.
billytea - Nov 05, 2011 6:48:11 am PDT #4552 of 8625
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Oh, good. I am jumping in. And if I can ever manage to watch a few DVDs, Season 1 is up next in the Netflix queue.
I've just finished watching seasons 1 and 2 on DVD (the paintball episodes!). It really is superb comedy. I've had some success intriducing it to Wallybee too, which was not a given. It's thick with pop culture references, and not from her culture.
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 6:57:46 am PDT #4553 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Though, this season, it looks like you might need to know:
- Inspector Spacetime is a Doctor Who analog that Abed and Troy are obsessed with that was given to Abed to placate him after the cancellation of the British Cougartown (did I get that right?). References are flying thick.
- Evil Abed and Troy from the multiverse episode might make an appearance. They had an episode where they explored the multiple possibilities of what would happen if various people went to get the pizza, and one resulted in...I can't even say. You need to see that shit for yourself. But there was evil Abed and Troy, and they made an oath.
-t - Nov 05, 2011 7:02:27 am PDT #4554 of 8625
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The multiverse is the recent one with the die roll for pizza getting? That's on Hulu so I saw that. Hearing about that episode tipped me over into actually watching rather than just planning on watching sometime in the ill-defined future. Pretty incredible.
Lee - Nov 05, 2011 7:15:42 am PDT #4555 of 8625
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Now I want to go back and watch the whole run again.
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2011 7:19:59 am PDT #4556 of 8625
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, good, I'm glad you've seen it. It was pretty remarkable. I will be disappointed if there are no callbacks to it.