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Community is back! Hooray! All of our old friends! Parks and Recreation is gone! Oh no! All of our old only good show! One thing that I’m already annoyed about with Community is their idea that the thought exists somewhere that in order to get people to watch their show, the gang has to act “normal.” Whatever that means. We saw a good amount of that in the first part of this season and I feel like, of course having had the hiatus, it’s now going to be back in a much more obvious way. And, ugh, that thing is so whiny and annoying. Don’t get me wrong, because I do really like Community, but Community loves Community self-righteously and unapologetically and more than any of us ever could, and that shit is hard to deal with when you’re just trying to WATCH A SHOW. But in any case, this episode was entertaining! I liked it. Britta and Jeff did some terrible drunk person acting, but aside from that, and from the thing I was just complaining about, it was fun and I was happy to see it back. C’est la Community. 30 Rock has been struggling all season, and it continued to struggle in the same ways with its St. Patrick’s Day episode. It just feels kind of empty? Like, there are lots of jokes in there, but they all feel like they’re coming from a dead-eyed 30 Rock robot. What I DID like, though, was the Settlers of Catan reference because well for just no reason I don’t know why I would have liked that or even KNOWN that it was a Settlers of Catan reference because I don’t know I must have seen that on like a store shelf or like maybe I heard someone talking about it or I don’t know GET OFF MY BACK. What I did not like was that when Siri was used the noise that it was using was the gchat noise? I don’t have Siri on my phone — does it really use the gchat noise? I highly doubt that it does. This is a huge problem, someone get Tina Fey to my apartment. The Office was enjoyable, actually. They’re definitely doing a good enough job dressing up that corpse and propping it up Weekend At Bernie‘s style. WHAT DID YOU THINK?
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That bit actually bothered me a little; it seemed kind of Scrubs-y. But I should shut up and be happy with what I have.
Wait that’s the point right? I thought the reason they were doing all these broad jokes was to point out how “normal” the show could be. I actually missed the very beginning so I was very concerned about the direction the show was going until I figured it out.
Yes, you’re probably right. This show’s been off too long and I lost my embouchure
I agree that Community is self aware but I still love 30 Rock
A little after this, did anyone else hear Siri say, “I’ve killed Jenna Elfman”?
Anyone?
Heard it too: “I killed Jenna Elfman, is that right?”
Yes! Hilarious.
“Pick a number…” was my favorite line of the night, and I already knew about it because of the preview for the episode, and when it happened in the show I was like, “YES! Even in context I still love it!”
I believe she actually said “I’m going to make a man very happy someday.”
Yeah.. They Britta’d it bad.
Catan
For shame, Kelly. If you were gonna pretend to like Setters of Catan, you could have at least spelled it right. I mean….. what’s Settlers of Catan? I’ve definitely never partaken in that game, if it even is a game, for numerous hours at a time, every week, for a summer. Nope. Certainly not.
As soo as I saw them playing Settlers of Catan I thought of Kelly. Not sure why…
*soon.
Also I don’t have Siri because smartphones more like stupid phones am I right, but I have accidentally seen roughly 10,000 advertisements for it and I thought it was the same sound that it makes in the ads?
Was that a Settlers of Catan reference? I have plenty of games that resemble what they played more than Catan and … you know I should probably just stop there.
I loved the hockey scene where they were talking about the new baby smell and tiny little socks.
Yeah meta commentary.
Yes! As soon as this happened I had visions of .gifs dancing in my head.
Is this thread suddenly for people who missed last night’s Community?
Second favorite line of the night, right here. Yay Dean Pelton!
That’s “Yay Oscar Winner Dean Pelton!” to you!
Vampire Diaries talk may begin here.
What the hell is going on with Alaric? He’s my 2nd favorite! They can’t make him into a psycho killer!
(First favorite btw is Elijah, obviously)
As long as it’s not an excuse for them to phase him off the show, I’m ok with Alaric being driven crazy by his life-savey ring. But I suspect that it’s an excuse to bring Jeremy back to Mystic Falls because he has one of the rings too and who knows what he’s getting up to. That would make me mad because Jeremy is tied with Bonnie for the least interesting and most-likely-to-act-like-a-self-righteous-douchebag character and I was really glad when they sent him away.
Also, I did like when Meredith was asking Elena why she let her borderline alcoholic history teacher/vampire hunter move in with her. How has this not raised eyebrows with the school’s administration?
I’ve never watched Vampire Diaries, but this comment really makes me want to watch it.
Jeremy tied with Bonnie? I think Matt’s the most uninteresting (and unattractive) character on the show – they’re only keeping him around so Elena can wind up with him at the end, when Stefan selflessly lets her go so she can be with a human and make babies. Matt has no special powers, he’s the worst. Meredith blows – I am not getting a read on her at all; they introduced her, Abby, Esther, Finn and Kol all within two episodes. Too many characters too fast – someone’s got to die, and it should be Meredith… and Abby…
And some GIFs.
Damon reading Stephan’s diary was cracking me up last night. Good old Damon…
OMG I almost forgot about the beginning of 30 Rock where Irish hooligans storm the This American Life studio, and Ira Glass gets upset. Priceless!
I wonder if this was improved because it was kind of amazing.
Dennis Duffy had the perfect review/synopsis of “The Kids Are Alright”: “Hey that lesbian movie is over! Their daughter went to college and Mark Ruffalo is just going to do his thing at the restaurant.”
That was great.
I love Dennis Duffy! I could barely keep it together watching Rescue Me when he was on. “Duuuffffyyyyyy!!!!” – me
And now he’s Mayhem for Allstate.
How the mighty have fallen.
Does Troy keep getting more and more adorable or is it just me?
I vote you!
While I’m bummed that Parks and Rec is donzo, it’s nice that they engineered things so that I would still only have to watch one show.
This was the best NBC comedy night in a while in my arrogant opinion.
The Office needs an antagonist for it to really make you care. Sometimes it’s circumstances but there’s nothing like an actual person actively being a dick.
My problem with Community is not that it was weird. In fact it was not weird enough. More weirdness, please. my problem was that the character development is often arbitrary and illogical. Troy, Annie and Abed are great characters but their whole story lines are based on them being young and acting quirky in order to deal with the world. Britta was initially the blandest character, but they’ve managed to turn her into another quirk-ball but it works for the best. Shirley’s had an actual character arc and it’s been the most interesting character to watch. Jeff’s development’s been the worse. Why is he bad for the group again? we all know he’s selfish and such but the whole first season was about how he brought them together and now he’s just suddenly bad for no reason. Pierce should be a co-star like Chang, or hang out in the back doing his own thing like Dwight.
30 Rock was great, again. They’re addressing more of Lemon’s humanity and I likes it. Duffy coming back and contrasting with Chris was a great move. They seem like pretty similar characters and it seemed like Chris was Duffy.2 at the beginning of the season but they did a great job of showing how different they are, past one being a dick and another one being a non-dick. It’s easier for Liz to be with someone like Duffy because he doesn’t really challenge her emotionally.
Ah crap, I wrote too much.
At least you didn’t get played by Facebook connect! … oh wait…
Does anyone here watch Happy Endings? Cause it’s great, probably my second favorite comedy after Parks and Rec.
Everything Penny does is perfect.
Plus, she’s got those THAAAAAAAAAANGS.
I think I just upvoted boobs! Yay!
Also, you spelled “Max” wrong. Everything Max does is perfect.
Yep, yes, and yes.
The gypsy curse voice they kept doing this week got me every time.
Favorite lines of the night:
30 Rock: “I don’t understand your art, Kevin!”
The Office: “I grew up poor. I had little formal education. No real skills. I don’t work especially hard. Most of my ideas are either unoriginal or total crap. And yet, I walked right into a job for which I was ill-prepared, ill-suited and somebody else already had and I got it.If you ask me, that’s the American dream, right there. Anything can happen to anyone. It’s just random.”
Community: “The “Webster’s Dictionary defines” intro is The Jim Belushi of speech openings: it accomplishes nothing, but everyone keeps on using it, and no one knows why.”
30 Rock has been struggling all season… -Kelly
You keep using that word, ‘struggling.’ I do not think it means what you think it means.
30 Rock is doing fine for a show in its sixth season.
rupaul’s drag race, anyone?
Go Latrice!
I always thought Twin Peaks would be much better if all the episodes included a self-aware subplot with the Dancing Dream Man trying to talk normal and not dance all the time so more people would like him, with a lot of additional metacommentary underlining, highlighting, and drawing little stars around the already obvious parallels between the Dancing Dream Man’s unpopularity and the show’s perceived unpopularity with philistines who don’t have IMAGINATION and don’t like to be CHALLENGED, and then at the end the Dancing Dream Man learns he’s got to just be himself in spite of the haters, and Coop, Sheriff Truman, and Albert learn not to insult each other like they’ve been doing 90 percent of the episode because they’re stronger as a team than as individuals.