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I love Halloween episodes of shows! The only thing better than a Halloween episode of a show is a Christmas episode of a show! And the only thing better than a Christmas episode of a show is an episode of a show that is just a stand-out good episode without having a gimmick attached! That being said, last night’s Halloween episodes were not the best Halloween episodes I’ve ever seen. Community was fine, and I like the idea of having each character tell their own Halloween story, but how it was carried out — especially considering how it was surrounded by the idea of Britta finding the personality test psycho — kind of felt rushed, or at least not thought out enough. Parks and Recreation was fine too, but I wasn’t really into the Entertainment 720 plot, and was only kind of confused when Aziz had that nice Lesie Knope tribute video all along. I know it’s a comedy, but, What? What a weird twist! The parts that took place at the Aubrey Plaza party were great, though. The Office was also just fine. Loved the Jesse costume. There were two funny lines. One of them was when Pam said, “Dwight, are you eating a stick?” The other oneeeee I forget. I’m sure you remember, though. Wasn’t that funny?! LOL. Whitney was perfect as usual. I loved It’s Always Sunny. It was very loud and weird, but I loved it WHAT CAN I SAY. More importantly, what can you guys say? About these things?
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COMMUNITY: C+. It would have been hard to top the great alternate-realities episode of two weeks ago, and the similarities (a tale told from the perspective of each character) makes the comparison all the more painful. There were some great flashes throughout, but overall a Brittaed episode. Its disappointing quality is sadly pretty much on par with this rest of season.
Side note: I think I’ve figured out The Walking Dead and my frustration with it: it’s written by Britta but I wish it was written by Abed.
PARKS AND RECREATION: B-. Okay? Just okay. Kelly summed it up. I don’t have anything else to say about it.
THE OFFICE: B-. A typically mediocre episode, but some great lines. Besides the root line:
“She’s from somewhere, I bet. Maybe from the forest.”
“Yeah. Seems like there isn’t even a narrative. Maybe the filmmaker realized that even narrative is comforting.”
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA: B. Like Kelly, probably my favorite episode of the night, but it seemed to fizzle out quickly from the amazing premise. Let me break it down. ACT 1: A. The initial explanation of the game and its levels and its byzantine rules. Amazing. The board getting nailed down for Mac’s sake and Mac’s cheerful admission that he’d no doubt forget and try to flip the board over anyway was pretty hilarious. ACT 2: B. The actual playing of the game was still pretty good—I liked the dog kennel—but it wasn’t quite as funny as Act 1. ACT 3: C-. So limp. I realize that was kind of the point—a lame coin toss ending—but it was still a disappointing third act after such a great first act.
Had this one already in the chamber, wert?
Yep.
HOLY fuck, what is THAT BEAUTIFUL awesomeness from?
Seconded…I know I’ve seen that action sequence before, but I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the movie, and I think it’s about time I watch it for reals. Fill me in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=IzPndisOxNs#t=1h39m37s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singham
From a movie call Singham. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948150/
Whoa, WHEN THE fuck did THE US OF A start outsourcing AWESOMENESS.
TIME to Qwikster THIS SHIT.
Kickass!
hey werttrew,
i know we’ve disagreed in the past, but i too agree Community was a C+ tonight
or last night. whatever. i haven’t been sleeping much lately.
I thought Community was fantastic. Way too many laughs within each story for it to be a weak episode. I think it’s being unfairly compared to the last episode.
It’s weird, I came in here to say that this was one of the first episodes of Community that I really enjoyed!
Also, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I would have probably had a better time watching baseball last night than sitcoms. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it appeared as though the Cardinals were playing their own CharDee MacDennis type of game after they won. they may have been dragging him to the kennel…i’m not sure
FUCK. WHAT the hell CRUZ? WAY TO fuck it up. OH WELL, CAN’T deny the CARDINALS BROUGHT that shit. GAME 7, BITCHES.
I knew you’d be a Texas fan.
HA YEAH, cause I’m going to ROOT FOR someone OTHER THAN God’s team? SOMEONE NEEDS a root CANAL, HOMIE.
God’s Team = LA Angels
Tony Danza made a movie about it.
God, that was great. I absolutely fucking hate the Rangers. Like, a lot.
I can’t wait to use this gif ALL THE TIME
Community was my favorite kind of Potbong.
I was half expecting Jeff to do a line of weed off Britta. Overall not the best episode but the first act? Awesome.
Oddly enough, I think the League was the winner of the night, just eeking past Sunny. Off night I guess?
“You a light sleeper? Heavy sleeper?”
“Heavy…”
“Nice.”
My favorite line of the night was Raffi’s:
“My dick is TERRIFYING.”
The goose is loose!
All hail the goose!
Hermes is on the loose!
I preferred his toilet college speech.
I have a confession — I didn’t start watching the League until two weeks ago… even though I absolutely love everyone involved. Why? Sports. But now I know how wonderful it is and I can’t get enough. I LOVE this show. LOVE IT. And I can’t find season 2 anywhere. I know it’s my fault for being stubborn about sports but I need to see it. I need to know what happened!! Help!
missed the FX shows and apparently a fucking awesome ball game for a pretty mediocre stretch of shows…i still love the Office even though everyone else seems to be over it.
had to rewind twice when Erin pulled out pecker poker. so great.
I like The Office too, I think if you go into something expecting to hate it it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I mean here’s a gif of Erin
Erin’s so cute.
I can’t wait for The Erin Show spin off. I think I’m going to delete everything off of my DVR to make space, just in case this becomes a real thing that really happens.
i dont know..i think they make her a little TOO dumb sometimes..i couldnt watch a whole half hour of her not knowing things..
LOOK, YOU are welcome to like THE SHOW. THAT’S great. BUT THERE’S just no FUCKING way you can TELL ME it’s even anywhere near THE SAME DAMN show it use to BE. WATCHING OLD episodes of THAT SHIT and then fastforwarding to THIS SEASON where OSCAR–one of the more grounded CHARACTERS in the Office–is smashing car windows AND PEOPLE ARE clapping at a character POURING SHIT into a random person’s car is FUCKING BIZARRE and doesn’t even seem REAL.
AND KEVIN. HOLY fuck anything with Keven.
Is this comment supposed to be read in Christopher Walken’s voice? I’m not understanding all the CAPS.
I’ve been confused about that for a while.
Not being as good as it used to be doesn’t mean it isn’t good. Just that it used to be better. It’s still better than most other stuff out there, and still watchable. It would be very hard for many shows to maintain a high quality for a long time, and it would hardly do it by being stagnant. So, unless shows stop once they hit their peak, that’s going to be a constant problem. And it would also mean that television quality would go down as most great shows on a downward slide are still better than most of the other crap out there.
god bless beavis and butthead. welcome home, fart knockers.
Abed humming the song on the radio was the best part of the night. So good. But I agree, otherwise, kind of lukewarm across the board.
Also, because Facetaco, famously, loves Suburgatory, I gave it a shot. Jury’s still out, but that’s not the point. The point is, I also watched Modern Family and Happy Endings for the first time (due to inertia) and Matt Besser was on both. Way to go Matt Besser!
Thank you Thank you for this! I was going to ask but didn’t want to make you go to the trouble. You are truly the Johnny Appleseed of vgum.
Britta is the best.
Robert California is so great. I was cracking up at almost all of his lines.
He was, and James Spader is, as great as his character’s shitty kid was completely unnecessary.
His intensity in general is my favorite but using that to make the scariest story ever was not only totally character-appropriate but totally funny. I swoon sweetly at his slightly sociopathic smarminess.
Goddammit. I need to stop reading Courtney Stodden tweets. They’ve infected my brain.
Ha! I managed to avoid her twitter until a couple days ago, and Oh my lord, what is that?
Sidenote: It was brought to my attention the other day that her creepy old husband was the creepy liver eater in the creepiest X Files ever. His creepiness knows no bounds.
“You’re beautiful! On the inside. Where your spirit lives.”
We need some Gangsta Trobed up in here. Community was fun but pretty empty of substance. And after Chaos Theory I am going to be looking at most episodes this season and thinking “you could be so much better than this”.
I play this game every Thursday called “See how much of Whitney I can watch.” It’s never very much. And I figured out one of the problems with the show, It’s Whitney! (As in the person, not the show, although the show isn’t really helping itself) She’s always smiling, at least in the first few moments of the show I always watch. It’s like she’s really excited to say her next line and thinks it’s SO HILARIOUS that she’s on a sitcom and doesn’t everyone agree?
“Plus she has a HUGE mouth” – Julia Roberts
As I’ve mentioned before, I tend to be too lazy to change the channel, and I catch most of Whitney, and what I simply cannot get over is what a HORRIBLE FUCKING AWFUL TERRIBLE person she is! She is like some kind of nightmare representation of the worst kind of female stereotype, and her (fake pretend tv) boyfriend is like “oh, you’re so crazy, that’s why i love you” and I am like “no she is a manipulative BITCH who ruins your jeans and puts HIDDEN CAMERAS IN YOUR HOUSE!!! Get out of there!!!” Unfortunately, I can’t seem to stop hate-watching this mess.
“Hate-watching” – my new favorite phrase
I thought Community was very good. It was definitely weird to have two consecutive episodes with such similar gimmicks, but a) apparently the timeline one was supposed to be earlier in the season and b) I actually thought last night’s worked better. The stories flowed into each other more naturally and it was easier to justify their differences since they came from different characters’ perspectives. Which left more time for LAFFS (as opposed to repeating lines seven times over, which wasn’t not funny, don’t get me wrong)
Okay I watched the cold open of Whitney because I had no idea what it was and it pretty much did the exact type of cold open that Louie made fun of in the ‘Oh Louie’ episode, complete with the ‘I love you despite you being an asshole’ look at the end.
I only watch P&R, but I thought everyone was being kind of terrible? Like what was April’s problem? Normally I love her but I just wanted to punch her face last night. And Tom ruining Leslie’s thing–although I am glad she went off on him. I’m glad Ann’s getting some non-Leslie time. I’m sick of the Chris-and-Jerry’s-daughter thing already. Why was Donna only there for one scene? Yay for Oren. And can we please get Ben and Leslie back together already?
What was your problem w/ April? She didn’t do anything especially terrible, she was pretty much her normal self. She even stuck up for Jerry (!) in the closing tag.
I felt like she knew why Ben was mad and just played along with Dumb Andy. Andy plays oblivious so well, but it just came off as mean-spirited when April didn’t acknowledge that it was a dick move to not let Ben know about the party.
They did sort of point out how each of them was treating their roommates like their siblings, and her messing with him was her way of treating him like family (just like Ben’s passive aggressiveness, and Andy’s play fighting)
Inspector Spacetime forever!
Just so I’m clear Abed was Alex from A Clockwork Orange right?
Abed was Inspector Spacetime and Troy was his companion.
little known fact Inspector Spacetime was in all Kubrick films, he played the baby in 2001 A Space Odyssey
That is a widely known fact.
Didn’t they say something to the effect that they were not wearing costumes and when they were we would know? So they just dress up like Inspector Spacetime for fun? I am so okay with this. Not just bc I’m going as Rose tomorrow.
I would like to request a gif of Andy moving Ben’s lips for him at the party, please! That was my favorite part of the night!
I might have to write stories about that moment. On like, another website.
Yay!!! Thank you!
“Your lips are so soft…”
That is my roommate at every home improvement store ever.
This is how I felt when I used to go to movie rental stores. (rip blockbuster)
As soon as I saw this last night I was waiting for this gif. <3
I loved Community last night. I seriously can’t decide whose story I loved the most.
Dammit, shoulda hit refresh. Here’s this one instead:
Actually LOL’d at that. I love her so much.
FINALLY she gets an episode-long focus.
Did you or your broadcaster censor the finger and dick cards? Came through crystal clear for me.
So Ryan was Jesse Pinkman right?
Whoa, I totally missed that. Did Ryan have a single line last night?
Whoopi Goldberg
Well if he only had one, at least it was a good one.
DOES Ryan ever HAVE LINES since like SEASON 5?
http://videogum.com/401691/thursday-night-tv-open-thread-26/tv/recaps/
“Once you get through the first season…”
I thought Community was great last night. Britta reading the book ‘Warren Peace’ in her account of how one of them would kill everyone else I thought was the best, such a small detail but so true to her character.
The world needs a Robert California “Deal with it” gif with replaced sunglasses! NEEDZ!
What about Happy Endings Halloween Ep? If you weren’t dying of laughter watching Max in that Baby Bjorn with those tiny little doll arms, then I am not sure we can be friends.
I actually preferred him in the swimsuit. Because I’m a perv. A perv for Max.
But Whitney was great, AMIRITE?
HELICOPTER BITCH!
idk why gifs hate me.
Parks and Rec, as usual, I found to be the winner of the night. Mostly, for these two lines:
“Oh, the shock wire. I call it that because when you take a shower and your touch it, you die. ha ha”
“A hammer, half a pretzel, a cartridge that says sonic and hedgehog, half a scissors, and a flashlight…full of jellybeans”
I watched that last one a couple times, and couldn’t stop laughing. I could watch a show entirely centered around Ron Swanson.
I almost died when he said ‘Sonic and Hedgehog.’
I can’t believe there are 100 comments
I’m gonna go out on a root here and say The Office was the best of the night. Gabe was especially excellent as super awkward creepy guy.
100 comments and no one has brought up that “art film?” Or Erin and Andy having their super personal conversation in front of Robert California? I thought last night was wins all around.
Are we sure that Gabe isn’t the Scranton strangler?
Also, I know this falls under the category of too stupid to be credible, but Kevin’s cluelessness about mummies was really funny to me.
“Why on earth would a museum put a mummy in it?”
I don’t know if anyone accidentally left the TV on like me (“Sure,” you’re thinking, “accidentally”), but if so maybe you noticed that KEN MARINO was on Whitney. I had mixed feelings about this!
I would rather Ken Marino would guest star on Parks and Rec. Ben’s old college roommate or something like that?
He shows up on A LOT of questionable television. There was that remake of the British show about men behaving like children in the 90s, Professor Creepy in Dawson’s Creek (which I absolutely loved) and a bunch of other very weird stuff I’ve put out of my head.
Hey, dude’s gotta pay the bills.
http://www.cc2biz.com