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Irish Joe
Jul 23, 2007

by Lowtax

Well that's literally the first time he ever made a movie. I'm thinking more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4xMMSlKbAY

or the Pierce documentary episode.

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LiterallyATomato
Mar 17, 2009

If Six Candles didn't make you cry you're a heartless monster.

Snacksmaniac
Jan 12, 2008

I liked it but I laughed at haaaaam girl for 20 minutes straight.

holttho
May 21, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYMGs-6Vqg

They should team up.

Thought the episode was pretty good. A good number of solid laughs in there for me; though I'm still not on board with kettle/steel drums.

The movie producer is how I picture every single real movie producer.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Snacksmaniac posted:

I liked it but I laughed at haaaaam girl for 20 minutes straight.

Where's the 10 hour YouTube video?

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.

Irish Joe posted:

That said, the episode was still eight minutes too long and lacking in all of the qualities that made "classic" Community good.

Yeah but what eight minutes could they really have cut? Jeff's death scene?

GutBomb
Jun 15, 2005

Dude?
I loved this episode. I love this season. I love Community.
The highlights this season for me have been the prisoner episode, the dean in the VR helmet, the Honda episode, and the laser bomb.

Also, I took the frisbees being tied together as something the study group did while building their "set" rather than some cheap prop that the Community production crew made that we weren't supposed to notice.

kayakyakr
Feb 16, 2004

Kayak is true

holttho posted:

I'm still not on board with kettle/steel drums.

Have to agree. Wish they had went with something ridiculous that she could actually do. It just looks so bad when they try to pass off that she's playing steel drums. poo poo, just cover the insides of the things with a blanket, watch a youtube of a steel drum player, and emulate that.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Bown posted:

Commenters, rapeface. I wrote "commenters".

That's even crazier! Who reads the comments!?

CPColin
Sep 9, 2003

Big ol' smile.
This episode was plenty good enough to satisfy my urge to watch a good episode of Community and the thread is not as bad as it could be.

Jagermonster
May 7, 2005

Hey - NIZE HAT!
Actors pretending to be bad at acting in a shoot within a tv show or movie just isn't funny.* It's tedious. It's bad. Movies and television need to retire that trope ASAP. Not a great episode.

*Unless it's Jack Donaghy trying to figure out how to walk.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Jagermonster posted:

Actors pretending to be bad at acting in a shoot within a tv show or movie just isn't funny.* It's tedious. It's bad. Movies and television need to retire that trope ASAP. Not a great episode.

*Unless it's Jack Donaghy trying to figure out how to walk.

I feel similarly. I have trouble with the lethal weapon 5 episodes of always sunny because of this. Maybe it's because I've been in improv classes before and it makes me feel cringe-y when people are trying to be funny without a script. Scripted scriptlessness and rehearsed awkwardness are even worse.

I laughed like crazy at the green three for some reason though. And the rest of the season is strong so I can forgive something not hitting me the right way.

El Tortuga
Apr 27, 2007

ĄTerrible es el Guerrero de Tortuga!
Almost every theatre professor I've ever had has told me the two hardest things an actor can do is act badly and act drunk.

holttho
May 21, 2007

El Tortuga posted:

Almost every theatre professor I've ever had has told me the two hardest things an actor can do is act badly and act drunk.

Simon Pegg had a pretty good section in his interview on Conan a while back talking about acting drunk well. Like the slow, incomplete blinking and unnecessarily holding your breath. The subtle "hold it together!" rather than the 1950s Hays-Code-era style "I'm totally fitshaced!" shtick that you instantly disbelieve and takes you out of the moment.

Jagermonster
May 7, 2005

Hey - NIZE HAT!
Yeah, I've been taught that the key to acting drunk is trying really really hard to act sober.

hard counter
Jan 2, 2015





Jagermonster posted:

Actors pretending to be bad at acting in a shoot within a tv show or movie just isn't funny.* It's tedious. It's bad. Movies and television need to retire that trope ASAP. Not a great episode.

*Unless it's Jack Donaghy trying to figure out how to walk.

I think that's the reason why I disliked this episode. It got a few laughs out of me regardless (Alison killed her lines) but I was not enjoying myself. The only other nice thing I'll say is it wasn't 100% predictable, I thought Chang's undoing would've been bad publicity from the Greendale movie.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Jagermonster posted:

Actors pretending to be bad at acting in a shoot within a tv show or movie just isn't funny.* It's tedious. It's bad. Movies and television need to retire that trope ASAP. Not a great episode.

*Unless it's Jack Donaghy trying to figure out how to walk.

Jesus loving christ will you people piss the gently caress off and stop watching the show. It can't win with you people. Nothing it can do will ever be enough. It has become more than just a tv program for you. Every episode has to be judged as if it was the most important thing in the world. Oh no Community is underachieving again, gently caress this gay earth! If you cunts could die in a horrible painful manner which takes quite a bit of time but kills you before you can post about community ever again... that'd be great.

8raz
Jun 22, 2007


He's Scouse, He's Sound.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Jesus loving christ will you people piss the gently caress off and stop watching the show. It can't win with you people. Nothing it can do will ever be enough. It has become more than just a tv program for you. Every episode has to be judged as if it was the most important thing in the world. Oh no Community is underachieving again, gently caress this gay earth! If you cunts could die in a horrible painful manner which takes quite a bit of time but kills you before you can post about community ever again... that'd be great.
Now THIS is how you act drunk!

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

TequilaJesus posted:

If Six Candles didn't make you cry you're a heartless monster.

seriously. that short should win awards

XboxPants
Jan 30, 2006

Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Jesus loving christ will you people piss the gently caress off and stop watching the show. It can't win with you people. Nothing it can do will ever be enough. It has become more than just a tv program for you. Every episode has to be judged as if it was the most important thing in the world. Oh no Community is underachieving again, gently caress this gay earth! If you cunts could die in a horrible painful manner which takes quite a bit of time but kills you before you can post about community ever again... that'd be great.

If it helps I thought this episode was loving great, one of my favorites of the season.

(but then I didn't find last week's very funny so maybe I'm still marked for death...?)

Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!



If people would just say "Wasn't feeling it this week!", whatever. But people are way overanalyzing a sitcom they're watching for free and treating every episode like the show is on life support and needs to be out down. Just enjoy a thing.

EatinCake
Oct 21, 2008
Thought the episode was pretty decent. Definitely one I'll forget in time, but nothing bad. Which hey, if the show can keep doing, good on it.

Gotta give props to the writers for the two new characters. They've been consistently well written for, and bounce off the regular cast surprisingly well for people who've only been around such a short time.

Takoluka posted:

If people would just say "Wasn't feeling it this week!", whatever. But people are way overanalyzing a sitcom they're watching for free and treating every episode like the show is on life support and needs to be out down. Just enjoy a thing.
I dunno. This is a message board, and a thread meant specifically for discussing or analyzing said tv show. Some folks probably take it to far, sure, but it's hard to fault em' for not liking a thing and then going online to try to explain why they didn't like it.

While in real life criticizing a thing all the time will make you pretty unpopular in your group, ya can't really complain about folks for doing it in a place specifically designed to be an opinion dump. Even if they're using over-emotive wordings to make their opinion be more grandiose.

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

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Please no community discussion in the community thread please thank you please

EatinCake
Oct 21, 2008
Ok.

Snacksmaniac posted:

Where's the goddamn gif?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
Paintball episode spoilers: Koogler's back! And it'll be played on the down-low, so probably spy-themed.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Regarde Aduck posted:

Jesus loving christ will you people piss the gently caress off and stop watching the show. It can't win with you people. Nothing it can do will ever be enough. It has become more than just a tv program for you. Every episode has to be judged as if it was the most important thing in the world. Oh no Community is underachieving again, gently caress this gay earth! If you cunts could die in a horrible painful manner which takes quite a bit of time but kills you before you can post about community ever again... that'd be great.

That's a spirited defence! It's almost as though it's the most important thing in the world to you!

Rexides
Jul 25, 2011

Reading constructive criticism (and even angry rants that had a point) in TVIV has helped me enjoy TV shows better. I may not always agree with people's opinions, but actively engaging with the show rather than turning your brain off is a much better experience, and there is nothing wrong with having expectations from the shows you love. Posting about how you hated an episode on the Internet is not necessarily an act of defiance against free entertainment or contempt for people who liked it, it's part of being critical of the entertainment you consume.

Or maybe Community sucks now, I don't know, whatever. The fake-acting parts sucked, the episode was kinda ok, will tune in next week anyway because not every episode has to be peak Community.

NieR Occomata
Jan 18, 2009

Glory to Mankind.

Rexides posted:

Reading constructive criticism (and even angry rants that had a point) in TVIV has helped me enjoy TV shows better. I may not always agree with people's opinions, but actively engaging with the show rather than turning your brain off is a much better experience, and there is nothing wrong with having expectations from the shows you love. Posting about how you hated an episode on the Internet is not necessarily an act of defiance against free entertainment or contempt for people who liked it, it's part of being critical of the entertainment you consume.


there's a difference between being critical and vomiting the same tired vitriol in a thread about a show you clearly hate just to poo poo in people's cornflakes week in and week out

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
It's funny because the post the meltdown guy quoted was pretty fair. I mean he's allowed to not like those kind of jokes.

NieR Occomata
Jan 18, 2009

Glory to Mankind.

Bown posted:

It's funny because the post the meltdown guy quoted was pretty fair. I mean he's allowed to not like those kind of jokes.

oh, certainly

Irish Joe
Jul 23, 2007

by Lowtax

Bown posted:

It's funny because the post the meltdown guy quoted was pretty fair. I mean he's allowed to not like those kind of jokes.

The strawman won't stand up if you remove all the hay.

a crisp refreshing Moxie
May 2, 2007


I enjoyed the episode, but for some reason I'm blanking on what people are talking about when they mention the "green three".

Magnitude (getting Pop! Pop!ed) in a lovely carrot costume still makes me chuckle every time I think about it.

Edit: OH MY GOD the mysterious green three! Yeah, that was a "pause the video to recover from laughing" moment for me. Adding Keith David to the show is seriously my favorite casting decision this show has ever made.

a crisp refreshing Moxie fucked around with this message at 17:13 on May 1, 2015

ComradeCosmobot
Dec 4, 2004

USPOL July

fount of knowledge posted:

I enjoyed the episode, but for some reason I'm blanking on what "green three" was referencing.

That's the point (I think)

kayakyakr
Feb 16, 2004

Kayak is true

fount of knowledge posted:

I enjoyed the episode, but for some reason I'm blanking on what people are talking about when they mention the "green three".

There's a monologue for Keith David where he's wondering what a pool ball that he found in his trailer is for because a green three is not used in any billiards game he knows.

Chwoka
Jan 27, 2008

I'm Abed, and I never watch TV.

Cricket?

SpaceParrot
Jul 18, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2g6D6Ki_-Y

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Jul 13, 2004

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Chwoka posted:

Cricket?

Snooker has a green three, but I can't remember if 3 is actually written on the ball

bull3964
Nov 18, 2000

DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.


Let's come up with the most outlandish reasons for it that we can think of.

The green three is a commentary of the over-reliance of CGI in movie and TV production. The ball is green so they can easily change it to any color they want even though there's only one "correct" color that it should ever be!

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Jul 13, 2004

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bull3964 posted:

Let's come up with the most outlandish reasons for it that we can think of.

The green three is a commentary of the over-reliance of CGI in movie and TV production. The ball is green so they can easily change it to any color they want even though there's only one "correct" color that it should ever be!

I actually saw someone on another forum conjecture that it represented "the greendale three" who were missing and meant they would come back. Which is oh, so stupid.

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Malcolm Excellent
May 20, 2007

Buglord
Will they ever catch the rear end crack bandit?

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