Quote :

" I'm just saying to be aware that they're distracting you from the how shitty the episode is by showing you a shadow of something you loved"

Wait, you mean to tell me that a TV show is trying to stay on the air by using the segments of it that people loved the most?

Holy shit. No way.

5/11/2013 9:21:30 PM

My point is that Harmon would've taken cancellation over this hacky bullshit.

5/11/2013 9:37:51 PM

[citation needed]

The second he got kicked off the show you were going to bitch no matter what.

If Harmon had stayed with the show you still would've run around talking about how this was the worst season and it wasn't as good as it used to be.

Let's not pretend you're not who you are.

5/12/2013 12:12:05 AM

Quote :

"The second he got kicked off the show you were going to bitch no matter what."

Well of course I was. I've been a fan of his for many years, down to his delightful portrayal of Ted Templeman in Yacht Rock.

Quote :

"If Harmon had stayed with the show you still would've run around talking about how this was the worst season and it wasn't as good as it used to be."

What makes you think a Harmon-led season would look anything like what we ended up with? I wanted this season to be good. It wasn't. It had moments, but a lot of it was bad. That's not an unpopular sentiment among any group of viewers.

Quote :

"Let's not pretend you're not who you are."

A guy who cares about the content of his favorite television show? God forbid.

5/12/2013 2:24:03 AM

finally got caught up this weekend. Meh. So disappointed this season.

Still some decent parts because we already liked the characters from previous seasons of course, but my wife and I both felt like it was just parodying itself at times.

5/20/2013 9:06:14 AM

Quote :

"Dan Harmon could be back on "Community." The Hollywood Reporter confirmed rumors that Harmon is talking with "Community" producer Sony Pictures about returning to the NBC series in some capacity. Harmon reportedly announced the discussions at a taping of an upcoming podcast, Hollywookiee was the first to report. No word on what his role could be. NBC, a rep for Harmon and Sony did not immediately reply to The Huffington Post's request for comment. Harmon and "Community" parted ways after Season 3 and a series of attention-grabbing headlines about a feud with Chevy Chase, who also left the series after Season 4, which saw David Guarascio and Moses Port replace Harmon. NBC recently announced it renewed "Community" for a fifth season, but the struggling comedy was not on the Peacock Network's fall schedule. "

5/28/2013 10:04:14 AM

OH. WE. BACK.

Quote :

"Dan Harmon is coming back to Community, multiple sources (and Harmon himself) say By Todd VanDerWerff June 1, 2013 So as it turns out, we do live in one of the parallel universes where Dan Harmon returns to Community, as tweeted by Harmon himself and confirmed by a justifiably gloating Deadline. Though it appears the deal isn’t quite finalized, that’s almost certainly just because it’s Saturday, and nobody signs contracts on a Saturday. So we’ll repeat it once again for good measure: Dan Harmon is returning to Community, unless the world ends (which it could; you never know). Iconoclastic showrunners have returned to the shows they left in the past. Larry David, for instance, went back to Seinfeld to write the series finale, while David E. Kelley increased his involvement in Chicago Hope in that show’s final year. But both of those men left their shows voluntarily; neither was fired, as Harmon was. In previous cases of a showrunner being fired or leaving the show under stormy conditions, like Aaron Sorkin’s removal from The West Wing or Amy Sherman-Palladino’s ouster from Gilmore Girls, the showrunner/creator wasn’t even invited back to write the series finale (something of a tradition for long-running shows, even if the creator left somewhere in season one). To have Harmon back not just to write one episode but to run the whole show for a fifth season (which may very well end up being the final one, according to Deadline, but is not yet confirmed as such) is hugely unprecedented. What’s the reason for this? We’ll almost certainly never know, because Sony is likely to remain as tight-lipped about its reasoning for bringing Harmon back as it was about its reasoning for firing him. In his tweet announcing his return, Harmon thanked series star Joel McHale, and that squares with what Hitfix’s Alan Sepinwall has heard: The cast, unhappy with the quality of the fourth season scripts, declared that it wanted Harmon to return. (Sepinwall also boldly refutes that Chevy Chase’s ouster had anything to do with this, which you already knew, but we’ll repeat it anyway.) That, too, would be largely unprecedented in the go-along-to-get-along culture of series television, but it often takes the unprecedented to make something else unprecedented happen. There’s still no news as to whether any of Harmon’s other key personnel will be returning with him. Deadline said earlier in the week that Chris McKenna might be returning, and his overall deal with NBC-Universal might make that possible. Andy Bobrow’s overall deal with Sony TV also makes his return something worth considering. Megan Ganz is continuing with Modern Family, for the time being, while a bunch of other season two writers, like Hilary Winston, have long since moved on to other things. Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, key to the series’ first three seasons, have an overall deal with Fox, so their return might be less likely, while Joe and Anthony Russo are filming the Captain America sequel and, thus, highly unlikely to return, even to shoot a single episode (though one could imagine a scenario where they returned for a series finale, if the fifth season finale proved to be that). Harmon also listed a whole bunch of key technical personnel he wanted back whose names we had never even heard of, so we assume they’ll be back, but who knows? The show’s look shifted subtly between seasons two and three, and hopefully, this is an attempt to get back to the more grounded quality of the earlier seasons (if “grounded” is an adjective that can be applied to Community). We’ll hopefully have more about how this deal happened in the week to come—which will either be original reporting or, more likely, us linking to other people who have done original reporting—but we’ll repeat it one last time: Dan Harmon is returning to Community. Look! Even The Hollywood Reporter says so."

6/1/2013 10:27:45 PM

Cue season 4 is a coma dream fom pierce and he dies off

6/1/2013 11:13:25 PM

giggity giggity goo

6/1/2013 11:17:28 PM

ibt Dan Harmon was only good the first time

6/2/2013 12:16:04 PM

Quote :

"DONE DEAL: Dan Harmon & Chris McKenna To Return To ‘Community’ For Season 5 After several weeks of negotiations, Community producer Sony Pictures TV just confirmed that there are deals in place for series creator/former showrunner Dan Harmon and former co-exec producer Chris McKenna to returning as executive producers for Season 5. The studio is not saying that the 13-season fifth season will be the cult comedy’s final installment though that’s what I’ve been hearing. Harmon announced his return to the show via Twitter a week ago."

http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/done-deal-dan-harmon-chris-mckenna-to-return-to-community-for-season-5/

confirmed

6/10/2013 2:04:42 PM

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"13-season fifth season"

6/10/2013 9:04:17 PM

Quote :

"@sepinwall 7m Per @TVMoJoe, Donald Glover will only be in 5 of 13 Community s5 eps http://vult.re/18IZn3Y Do not like. #TroyAndAbedSeparation"

7/8/2013 4:04:56 PM

on a related note, i will only enjoy 5 of 13 episodes.

7/8/2013 5:03:19 PM

Dan Harmon Explains Why He Agreed to Return to 'Community'
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00062564.html

7/25/2013 7:01:46 AM

Glover's getting his own show on FX. Spec title is Atlanta.

8/6/2013 4:39:42 PM

is now when everyone turns on Donald Glover?

8/6/2013 5:00:31 PM

Nah, show's clearly done after this season. Just hope Harmon gets some good meta shit going and that'll be that.

8/6/2013 5:33:20 PM

Season 5 Trailer:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/12/09/community-season-5-trailer/

12/9/2013 5:36:34 PM

2-episode 1-hour premiere tonight.

1/2/2014 11:20:55 AM

Super pumped for tonight! Ready to put the memories of Season 4 to rest.

1/2/2014 11:50:06 AM

Do you guys feel weird about doing this without...Magnitude?

1/3/2014 6:16:43 AM

Joel McHale looks like a plastic doll these days.


that being said, i enjoyed both episodes together. glad they decided to do a two-part season premiere as I can see where the first episode, alone, may have turned off a lot of viewers

1/3/2014 8:01:55 AM

agreed 100%. The two together provided a really enjoyable block of Community. Glad the show is back. (And yes Joel McHale looked weird)

1/3/2014 8:17:22 AM

lol, Pierce cameo

1/3/2014 8:38:41 AM

Son of a bitch! After everything Scrubs did for him?!

1/3/2014 10:04:17 AM

Abed's first exchange is very much Harmon saying, "Fuck you, we're doing this my way."

1/3/2014 12:18:29 PM

god damn, absolutely perfect parody of every crime procedural drama

1/9/2014 8:39:36 PM

Lots of Zodiac up in there.

1/9/2014 9:11:03 PM

ACB

1/9/2014 11:06:28 PM

I finally watched this episode. It was awesome. It made this whole season worth it in 22 minutes.

1/11/2014 12:43:02 PM

evidently the next episode is supposed to be pretty great

1/11/2014 2:13:01 PM

You can't stop me, because what are you gonna do, not have butts?

1/11/2014 10:02:38 PM

this shit is gold tonight

1/16/2014 8:14:06 PM

By the time it quick cut to Aybed getting handed the semen I was literally rofling.

1/16/2014 9:32:06 PM

loved that

obligatory semen


or whatever the quote was, had me rolling

1/16/2014 11:09:33 PM

fantastic episode.

1/17/2014 8:28:07 AM

very enjoyable

1/17/2014 8:29:51 AM

i literally died laughing last night.

ghost post.

1/17/2014 10:49:21 AM

http://www.avclub.com/review/cooperative-polygraphy-107028?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:1efault

I only started watching Community this year and this article is overanalytical, but I found the discussion in the comments really interesting.

1/17/2014 1:17:56 PM

Loved this and loved Goggins. Especially in the tag.

1/17/2014 7:37:24 PM

I did what I did in the name of breakfast.

1/17/2014 10:50:26 PM

"When I was 23 my father asked me to do the same thing to earn my adulthood and his fortune. Of course, I cheated and floated off the coast of Belize for a year, doing coke with John Denver."

1/18/2014 8:39:00 AM

Quote :

"fantastic episode."

this

1/18/2014 4:41:44 PM

this season is so much better than the last already

1/18/2014 6:58:17 PM

guess that was glover's last ep. sad

great episode though, liked how he went out on 'childish tycoon'. amazing how much better this season is.

1/23/2014 8:31:10 PM

was largely meh

[Edited on January 23, 2014 at 8:38 PM. Reason : donglover's getting his own series, right?]

1/23/2014 8:37:59 PM

thought he was going to pursue his music career.

oh -- 'music themed show for FX titled Atlanta'

[Edited on January 23, 2014 at 9:12 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2014 9:11:07 PM

I thought this was easily the best episode in years. On par with the first 2 paintball episodes even.

1/24/2014 2:57:27 AM

another fantastic episode. I think my favorite part about these types of episodes is how invested Jeff gets. He can be so against day-to-day study group activities and even against investigation the ACB. But paintball, lava game, whatever it is he's usually the first one to dive in. very funny.

1/24/2014 9:05:06 AM