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Entertainment => Film & TV Talk => Television => Topic started by: mike c on Oct 21, 2011 at 08:54 AM
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1439629/
i liked his humor sa 'the soup', kaya jumped on this series recently (soon as i heard about it)
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Finally, a thread about this underrated series--I love this show; it's actually brilliant and funnier than most comedies like the overhyped Modern Family; too bad it's getting clobbered in the ratings.
And pop culture aficionado Abed is one of the quirkiest characters to ever appear on TV--his love for Cougar Town resulted in one of the strangest unannounced crossovers between two shows airing on different networks, with 2 characters from Cougar Town doing a cameo on Community, and himself doing a cameo on Cougar Town the week after. ;D
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yeah, i look forward to the end credits where abed and troy show their "talents"
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Finally, a thread about this underrated series--I love this show; it's actually brilliant and funnier than most comedies like the overhyped Modern Family; too bad it's getting clobbered in the ratings.
And pop culture aficionado Abed is one of the quirkiest characters to ever appear on TV--his love for Cougar Town resulted in one of the strangest unannounced crossovers between two shows airing on different networks, with 2 characters from Cougar Town doing a cameo on Community, and himself doing a cameo on Cougar Town the week after. ;D
Agree! I've been following this tv series since day 1 and it is very funny. Plus Annie is HOOOT! haha!
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For me, this is the most consistently funny sitcom on air. It's a MUST for pop culture enthusiasts. Amazing how they never run out of ideas of things to spoof.
That this show received no writing/acting/directing/best show Emmy nominations is a crime.
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Cool.cool.cool. Thanks for the thread, mike c!
Britta is my favorite character, though it looks like they have no idea what to do with her this season. I think they even admitted it when Abed called her a Wild Card in "Remedial Chaos Theory"
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Joel McHale does his People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive video:
http://youtu.be/WZ2hYXAocTc
:D
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NBC just shelved Community. Damn! Not cool!
http://www.tvline.com/2011/11/nbc-scheduling-changes-grimm-up-all-night/
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what? sayang ganda pa naman nung last episode...the "kiss from a rose" song is still playing in my head!
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what? sayang ganda pa naman nung last episode...the "kiss from a rose" song is still playing in my head!
yeah that last episode was hilarious
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It will still air until January 5. Saddened by the development, though. It makes a 4th season really unlikely.
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based on viewership, it's not spectacular, but it's also at least not the bottom of the barrel ...
i don't get why there are other shows that have fewer viewers but are still on the air.
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It's like Arrested Development all over again.
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based on viewership, it's not spectacular, but it's also at least not the bottom of the barrel ...
Actually, for NBC, I think it IS virtually the bottom of the barrel - the only show they have with lower ratings is CHUCK, and that's officially ending, so it probably isn't too much of a concern for them.
If Vulture is to believed, though, then there's definitely hope for the show: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/11/vulture-answers-your-questions-about-communitys-future.html
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NBC just shelved Community. Damn! Not cool!
http://www.tvline.com/2011/11/nbc-scheduling-changes-grimm-up-all-night/
Ngyar. I haven't been happy with this latest season, but I'm really bummed by this news. On the plus side, I instantly fell in love with Happy Endings so at least I have a rebound, just in case (although I hear that show's ratings aren't that great either)
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And of course after the benching, Community comes up with what I feel is the best episode of the 3rd season. Sayang!
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And of course after the benching, Community comes up with what I feel is the best episode of the 3rd season. Sayang!
totally agree!!!
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And of course after the benching, Community comes up with what I feel is the best episode of the 3rd season. Sayang!
+1. the irony.
Ngyar. I haven't been happy with this latest season, but I'm really bummed by this news. On the plus side, I instantly fell in love with Happy Endings so at least I have a rebound, just in case (although I hear that show's ratings aren't that great either)
i tried this series when i read your post above. i felt, the first episode didn't actually fit in (the rest of the episodes, seems like characters' attitudes were changed after the pilot, for the better IMO) but i've watched it straight through to the current episode and two thumbs up!
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Community wins TV Guide's Fan Favorites Poll; the show received around 300,000 votes from fans on TV Guide's Facebook page, besting other fan favorites like Chuck and The Vampire Diaries.
The win resulted in 3 different covers for TV Guide's December 5, 2011 issue:
(http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/community-tv-guide.jpg)
Also, College Humor launches a Save Greendale video with the cast of Community:
http://youtu.be/F52jXbG9gNc
Pop Pop! ;D
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^Pop pop!
And of course after the benching, Community comes up with what I feel is the best episode of the 3rd season. Sayang!
+1. the irony.
+1+1+1+1 All the episodes starting with Annie's moving episode have been fantastic. Very ironic and unfortunate :(
i tried this series when i read your post above. i felt, the first episode didn't actually fit in (the rest of the episodes, seems like characters' attitudes were changed after the pilot, for the better IMO) but i've watched it straight through to the current episode and two thumbs up!
Hahaha, you're a better person than me: if I'd seen the pilot first, I wouldn't have given this show a second look. Luckily, my girlfriend was watching an episode from the 2nd season one day, and the rest was history.
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For me, Season 2 was possibly the best sophomore season of any show. No sophomore slump.
Seasons 1 and 3 are about at the same level for me. Highs and lows. When it's on, it's AMAZING; and when it's off... it's still much better than most crap on air.
Time Magazine's analysis of the show is very accurate:
Community is television's first Cubist sitcom. Like the still lifes of Picasso or Braque, it starts with a simple tableau: a set of friends/acquaintances/nemeses in a community-college study group. Then, episode by episode — like a painter breaking a guitar into geometric shapes — obsessive creator Dan Harmon rearranges its component parts to play with perspective and create a picture truer than real life. One week the story is built around seven alternative timelines. Another, it's a parody of My Dinner with Andre. Another, it's told entirely through flashbacks to Community episodes that were never made. It's not just invention for its own sake but a way of using the storytelling frame to show how each character in the ensemble relates to the whole. Yet Community is not some high-art experiment but hilarious, good-time entertainment; it both defies sitcom formulas and lovingly embraces them. Unfortunately, NBC has just placed the low-rated series on hiatus. It should return later next year, and it may yet be renewed. If not, what we've gotten is worth hanging in a museum.
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For me, Season 2 was possibly the best sophomore season of any show. No sophomore slump.
Seasons 1 and 3 are about at the same level for me. Highs and lows. When it's on, it's AMAZING; and when it's off... it's still much better than most crap on air.
Time Magazine's analysis of the show is very accurate:
Community is television's first Cubist sitcom. Like the still lifes of Picasso or Braque, it starts with a simple tableau: a set of friends/acquaintances/nemeses in a community-college study group. Then, episode by episode — like a painter breaking a guitar into geometric shapes — obsessive creator Dan Harmon rearranges its component parts to play with perspective and create a picture truer than real life. One week the story is built around seven alternative timelines. Another, it's a parody of My Dinner with Andre. Another, it's told entirely through flashbacks to Community episodes that were never made. It's not just invention for its own sake but a way of using the storytelling frame to show how each character in the ensemble relates to the whole. Yet Community is not some high-art experiment but hilarious, good-time entertainment; it both defies sitcom formulas and lovingly embraces them. Unfortunately, NBC has just placed the low-rated series on hiatus. It should return later next year, and it may yet be renewed. If not, what we've gotten is worth hanging in a museum.
^ Pop Pop!
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The Christmas episode was a hilarious dig at Glee! Plus, they actually wrote original songs! Take that !
Pero they conveniently tiptoed around the fact that Abed is a muslim...or did i miss something?
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Time Magazine's analysis of the show is very accurate:
LOL, right on the money!
The best lingering image of this show for me is the one where the gang's making a diorama of themselves making a diorama. ;D
The Christmas episode was somewhat bittersweet because it's the final episode for now, with no announced return date for next year; my guess is that it will return during summer, but hopefully sooner than that.
The end credits sequence, with the Dean, Chang, Magnitude, Star-Burns and Leonard doing their rendition of "Carol of the Bells" was freaking hilarious. :D
Pero they conveniently tiptoed around the fact that Abed is a muslim...or did i miss something?
Hmm, not sure, but maybe it's because he was the first to be turned to the musical side, so his religion was never mentioned.
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I have a feeling Abed's non-practicing, or very moderate. My take is he follows the call of pop culture first and foremost. He did try to be Jesus in the second season ;D so I'm sure Christmas is all fair in his eyes
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Community is now being aired on the FOX Channel Asia...I miss these guys already. :P
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http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-chief-says-community-coming-back-194836342.html
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http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-chief-says-community-coming-back-194836342.html
It's odd though that most of the USA press omitted some important details about what he said:
"Greenblatt addressed several long-standing issues straight off the top. The ratings-challenged cult comedy Community "has not been cancelled," he said. "It will definitely return at some point during the spring."
Greenblatt would not commit to further episodes beyond this season, however.
"We'll just have to see how our midseason performs," he said. "We have a really tight schedule with comedies, and there's not really a lot of room to move in. We need to take a look at the six new comedies we have coming this season, and then figure out where Community makes most sense."
Full article can be found here (http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Community+chopping+block+Hargitay+head/5958192/story.html).
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It's odd though that most of the USA press omitted some important details about what he said:
Full article can be found here (http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Community+chopping+block+Hargitay+head/5958192/story.html).
wow. that sounds bleak for community ...
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Illustrator Aviv Or's brilliant take on the cast of Community as the X-Men: ;D
(http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/376cce7bc919d4eb23c9bc0966618122-650x459.jpg)
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Jim Rash, who currently plays Dean Craig Pelton on Community, was recently nominated for an Academy Award--Best Screenplay based on Material Previously Produced or Published, for the movie The Descendants starring George Clooney. Rash co-wrote the screenplay with Alexander Payne and Nate Faxon, adapting it from the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.
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Community creator Dan Harmon just posted this on his Twitter account (https://twitter.com/#!/danharmon/status/172052300033040384):
What you call 8:00, we call home. Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th.
yay! ;D
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Hurrah!
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Pop! Pop! ;D
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Pop! Pop! ;D
Wouldn't it be cool of the "Dan" who posts here is actually "Dan Harmon"?
Hmm... ;D
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they got a timeslot again (these are episodes shot already), but the question is, will the series be renewed next season?
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With Jim Rash winning an Oscar last night for co-writing The Descendants--and giving a fierce impression of Angelina Jolie while receiving the award--Community can now boast having an Academy Award winner.
...maybe NBC can think twice now about giving more respect to the show...
LOL, asa pa. :D
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and giving a fierce impression of Angelina Jolie while receiving the award
He did!? That's awesome! I'm hearting this guy more and more
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The Return of Community trailer:
http://youtu.be/9pAEyPpYn-Q
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Guys, watch the latest episode of community. Loads of laughs as they spoof law and order ;D
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The Feud:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/04/chevy-chase-vs-dan-harmon-community-feud.html
The Fallout:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/04/community-dan-harmon-chevy-chase-feud.html
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all's well that ends well na kaya? mahirap ba talaga ka-trabaho si chevy? baka naasar kasi konti lang eksena nya.
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all's well that ends well na kaya? mahirap ba talaga ka-trabaho si chevy? baka naasar kasi konti lang eksena nya.
You should read about his history with SNL. Google it.
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Safe!
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^^yup, renewed for a fourth (and not hopefully final) season of 13 episodes. Looks like shorter seasons are the norm these days.
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Worst TV news I've heard. They should've cancelled the show instead:
New Showrunners to Replace Dan Harmon on Community
May 18, 2012 11:01 PM ET
by Michael Schneider
Greendale Community College has a new pair of headmasters. Just Shoot Me! alums Moses Port and David Guarascio have been tapped to step in and replace Dan Harmon as the new showrunners of NBC's Community. Harmon has been given a consulting producer title, but that doesn't mean he'll be actively involved on the show.
Even though NBC pleased fans by giving Community a 13-episode renewal last week, Harmon hadn't yet struck a deal with producer Sony Pictures TV to return as showrunner next season. That's because Sony had been looking to make a change at the top. Initially, Port and Guarascio (who more recently consulted on Happy Endings) turned the offer down — but Sony came back and sweetened the pot. The duo's credits also include Aliens in America; this season they wrote the Fox pilot El Jefe.
According to insiders, Harmon signed just a one-year deal last year, with no option that would force his return this season. With no new deal on the horizon, Harmon prepared a farewell message to run as a vanity production card during Community's season ender, but the idea was later nixed.
Sony is said to be looking at ways to broaden Community and attempt to extend the show's life on NBC — and it's no secret that studio and network execs have clashed with Harmon in the past. Insiders warn that Harmon is so closely identified with Community that squeezing him completely might alienate the show's small but fiercely loyal fan base. Not to mention most of the show's cast: "Dan's the creator of the show, the voice of the show, so I don't know how that would work without him," says star Joel McHale.
On Sunday, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said that he expected "Dan's voice to be a part of this show somehow. I'm just not sure if that means him running it day to day or consulting on it." (Harmon himself has said he's not interested in a consulting role.)
The decision to tap outside producers to join the show was also borne out of necessity, as Harmon's key producing partners are all exiting the show. Former exec producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan (who signed a deal at 20th Century Fox TV to create new shows) have already been hired to run Fox's Ben and Kate, while coexecutive producer Chris McKenna has set up a deal at Universal TV to develop new shows — and insiders said he wouldn't have taken the showrunner job without Harmon's involvement. The seeds of this week's showdown were planted long before Harmon's public feud with star Chevy Chase, but it likely didn't help. "It's hard to imagine that Dan will be back on the show," one source said earlier this week. "And it's hard to imagine that Dan won't be back on the show."
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Community-Dan-Harmon-Replaced-1047797.aspx
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"Dan's the creator of the show, the voice of the show, so I don't know how that would work without him," says star Joel McHale.
I guess that says it all. This sucks! >:(
And here I was gonna say how episode 20, in which the Greendale 7 turn into retro videogame characters, was the best episode ever. (http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif)
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The situation is even worse. No negotiations, apparently. He was just fired over the phone!
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Community-Dan-Harmon-Speaks-Out-Says-He-Longer-Have-Any-Power-42670.html
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The situation is even worse. No negotiations, apparently. He was just fired over the phone!
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Community-Dan-Harmon-Speaks-Out-Says-He-Longer-Have-Any-Power-42670.html
Is this due to the power of the Chevy? Or is he really that bad to deal with?
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By all non-Community groupie accounts, Harmon's a nightmare to deal with.
But the only people watching Community are its groupies, so... ;D
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Chevy Chase leaving 'Community'
NBC sitcom will film last 1 or 2 episodes of season 4 without Pierce
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/chevy-chase-leaving-community
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Season 4 Sneak Peek: The Hunger Deans
http://youtu.be/Y7ACRFd9aJ4
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yey! Community coming back on Feb 7!
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/01/11/community-season-4-hunger-games/
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I thought the season premiere was good, but different. They did a bit too much with it in attempts to show that it hadn't changed.
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ok, good to know.
the new york times panned the 2 episodes it got in advance. so i didn't want to expect too much
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/arts/television/community-returns-on-nbc-without-dan-harmon.html?_r=0
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Fans of the original Beverly Hills, 90210 will probably get a kick out of the American version of Inspector Spacetime shown in last episode's credits sequence. ;D
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^haha, pero mas natawa ako sa reaction ni Abed! Pati sa sinabi ni Britta kay Troy something like " that guy wants to steal your boyfriend"
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Community has been renewed for a 5th season, with an order of 13 episodes.
The last episodes haven't been that good, and you could easily identify the episodes that they filmed after Chevy Chase's departure.
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Wow. I'm glad that it got renewed although the season is a bit of mixed bag. I thought that the finale was just downright awful.
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Wow. We're 100% opposites on that one, rusty. I thought the entire season was awful, and the finale was the saving grace of Season 4. It felt like the Harmon-penned episodes.
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Excited to go to the premiere of Fast 6 tomorrow, not to see the stars, but to see the director, since he also directed my favorite Community episode: "Modern Warfare." :D
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I don't like nice Jeff. I'm with rusty on this one. Parang pilit magpaka-weird nung last episode
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here's Gillian Jacobs dancing and singing because of the renewal.
https://vine.co/v/b0qxH1VA29m (https://vine.co/v/b0qxH1VA29m)
she also looks great without makeup
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'Community' creator Dan Harmon confirms return to show
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/1/4386678/community-creator-dan-harmon-confirms-return-to-show
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^ cool cool cool. 8)
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Great News!
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Donald Glover to appear in only 5 out of 13 Community episodes this season (http://www.vulture.com/2013/07/donald-glover-will-spend-less-time-on-community-season-five.html?mid=twitter_vulture)
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I read that this might happen a few weeks ago. It's a bit weird that it's only 5 episodes. I was thinking at least 7, so he'd be in half of the season. But last season's showrunners really didn't know how to write for Troy. He became peripheral, and of all the actors, you could really see the plastic "What the crap am I doing on this show?" expression on his face the most. Still, this is a dick move. I remember Henry Winkler's interview when asked why he stayed with Happy Days until the very end, and he said, "I would never leave the show that saved me from obscurity."
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The cast of Community at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con:
(http://i.imgur.com/joF2CKw.jpg)
The Community 2013 SDCC Panel with Dan Harmon and the cast:
http://youtu.be/bDt9S86RNV4
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Season 5 has the show's old feel back. The characters are actually characters, not stereotypes who feel the need to explain their behavior every week. And Donald Glover no longer has that Stepford Wives look in his eyes that he had throughout last year. Too bad he's leaving, it'll be hard to imagine Abed without Troy.
I loved the surprise cameo in the premiere.
Too bad the ratings were even worse than last season. I guess the disaster called Season 4 lost a lot of the audience, and they just didn't come back even with Dan Harmon back at the helm.
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Natawa ako sa sinabi ni troy about zach braff coming back to scrubs for only a few episodes in season 9 "after everything scrubs did for his career?" Hahaha!
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Ang galing ng latest episode! Akala ko kung anong tv show ang pinarody, yun pala david fincher movies!
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just started watching this last Sunday and now i'm through all four seasons! now i'm thinking whether to start season 5 now or wait til the whole season's over. i just can't get enough of this series and my crush on Alison Brie has just gotten stronger!
my favorite catch-phrase: Cool! cool, cool, cool! ;D
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Abed is here in manila!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152276433351131&set=a.10151806638766131.1073741832.329069471130&type=1&theater
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Danny pudi in the philippines!
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Fox Channel Philippines held a meet-and-greet contest for fans.
A friend of mine just happened to be in the same walking tour yesterday.
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aw! sayang. saan nila ginawa yung meet and greet?
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Not sure. Didn't look into the details.
Ganda ng GI Joe episode ng Community this week. The best episode since season 2 for me.
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Yup, lakas maka-throwback ng episode! With the retro -looking tv ads!
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Cancelled.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/05/09/community-cancelled/
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badtrip talag NBC. Six Seasons and a Movie!
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Hulu in talks with Sony Pictures TV about a possible 6th season of Community
Source (http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/community-hulu-season-6-dan-harmon/)
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'Community' getting sixth season on Yahoo
"THE REPORTS OF OUR CANCELATION HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED." —JOEL MCHALE
http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/30/5858810/community-renewed-for-sixth-season-on-yahoo
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'Community' getting sixth season on Yahoo
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...but they really should get Donald Glover back. Also liked the addition of Jonathan Banks last season, they should also bring him back.
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...but they really should get Donald Glover back. Also liked the addition of Jonathan Banks last season, they should also bring him back.
i agree regarding Donald Glover. Abed just seems so incomplete without Troy. kahit yung pasulpot-sulpot lang like John Oliver.
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Holy cow, boys and girls: "Community" has been renewed, after all. The dream of six seasons and a movie is still alive — thanks to Yahoo, of all places, which closed a deal for an additional season of the cult NBC comedy.
Source: http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-renewed-by-yahoo-for-sixth-season-movie-to-follow (http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-renewed-by-yahoo-for-sixth-season-movie-to-follow)
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Holy cow, boys and girls: "Community" has been renewed, after all. The dream of six seasons and a movie is still alive — thanks to Yahoo, of all places, which closed a deal for an additional season of the cult NBC comedy.
Source: http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-renewed-by-yahoo-for-sixth-season-movie-to-follow (http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/community-renewed-by-yahoo-for-sixth-season-movie-to-follow)
Yup reported and posted already since the start of July.
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Yvette Nicole Brown Departs Community
Source (http://www.tvguide.com/news/yvette-nicole-brown-1087724.aspx?rss=breakingnews)
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it's not nice. Dan Harmon says they're bringing in 2 new characters in the show. one was a failed sales rep. probably someone who'll rival Jeff on his speeches ;D
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Okay so just started watching this show just now. Don't know why I did not start sooner. lol
And yes Alison Brie is the cutest/prettiest thing on TV.
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It finally ended today. Four seasons too late, IMHO. LOL
I did like the final scene with all the narration, but I thought the episode itself, much like most of the season, was weak.
I'd still watch the movie if it ever comes, but strictly for completion purposes only.
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sayang, di talaga bumalik si troy for the finale :(
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It's in netflix.. Missed this show..
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It's in netflix.. Missed this show..
Community on Netflix is remastered to 4K HDR.
Community on Prime Video has the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(Community)) episode that was removed from Netflix.