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.
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.
Now I want to go back and watch the whole run again.
Oh, good, I'm glad you've seen it. It was pretty remarkable. I will be disappointed if there are no callbacks to it.
That was an amazing bit of storytelling.
Perkins, I would be up for some Community and sushi or similar some lazy weekend...
OOH! That would be cool, though I would have to get S1 back from Juliana first.
That was an amazing bit of storytelling.
They compressed so many stories and so many commentaries on character into 22 minutes. It was some of the most efficient use of screentime I've seen. So tight.
I was actually getting kind of antsy every time Abed's "different timeline" line came up because how can they get through them all if they say the whole line every time? But they did, and didn't feel rushed. And, going into it basically not knowing any of these characters, I came out feeling like they were people I want to see more of. Impressive!
Okay, I'm going to have to get these DVDs, huh?
I know! I kept thinking--are we going to see the crazy dorky pizza dance
every
time? Uh, no. Because not every reality needs the pizza dance. But two of them did, so we watched it twice. This week's took over as my favourite of the season so far, but I'm still so very
impressed
by the multiverse.
eta: Steph, I'd be REALLY surprised if you regretted it. It starts kind of conventionally, but not conventionally bad. And then it ramps up crazy mad pretty quickly.