Also, my recording cut off Leonard's review of the chips--I see as far as the guy in the dreads coming into the shot and leaving it.

It was a Buy.

Also, my recording cut off Leonard's review of the chips--I see as far as the guy in the dreads coming into the shot and leaving it.

It was a Buy.

And one chip was shaped like a duck.

Okay, looks like I got most of the good stuff. Rock on, Leonard.

I'm trying to work out if what I said about the darkest timeline coming back is actually satisfied by the finale. Probably only technically. Still, good enough! Abed's imagination is too real.

I remember getting into a debate with someone who said the show was devolving into a lesson every week, and I can't quite remember it not having a lesson every week, pretty much. From the very start, it's usually Jeff getting a little nudge away from shallowness (just a little), but I feel that's been consistent enough to be a hallmark of the show.

And I do like that it's not a huge reset button, and that the characters have changed over the three seasons, not just their circumstances (which do change more than I'm used to from a sitcom anyway).

Yeah, I think every episode has had some kind of lesson, since the pilot. It's part of the meta-commentary and, as you say, the character growth.

Breaking News:

Dan Harmon out as Community showrunner.

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Shit. He may be crazy and a pain to work with but I'd really rather be watching the door hit Chevy's tuckis right now.

I'm still reeling at the back half of the season.

Oh, no. But not completely off the show, right? Don't ruin this for me, NBC.

This season has been amazing and maybe perfect and it certainly seems to be largely Harmon's vision. I know it's all collaborative, but somebody had to say "yes, let's be that weird, this is how we'll pull it off".

OH MY GOD that video game episode was unreal.

Yes, he'll still be consulting producer. So there will still be....Harmonising.

I'm not used to getting a feel off of sitcoms as to individual impact. Here's to hoping there's effectively no downside.

I do wonder what's up with this--did he get the boot--for performance reasons? Wrote one too many rant? They want to go in a different direction?

I mean, it feels like there are only 13 episodes left--why not just ride it out with the current team?

Yeah, everything that's been said about the move to Friday seems to imply that the goal is mostly to keep the current audience, so why shake things up further? Unless there were even more behind the scenes shenanigans than we know about. Which there could easily be. But I'm very curious about all that.

I'm also pretty curious about that scene Chevy wouldn't shoot or was resistant to or whatever it was that sparked the feud. I didn't notice any holes in the final episodes, but maybe I wouldn't if it would have been something surprising.

They've got to make some web version of the video game or a phone download or something, right?