I can't count the reasons I should stay, One by one they all just fade away. Community S6! #andamovie

Did Drew Carey get his hand caught in the liposuction machine?

SommerMatt wrote:

Enjoyed last night's episode quite a lot.

Drew Carey really looks sort of demented without the extra weight.

For real, it was very jarring to see.

And now...the puppet.

I liked how Carrey's hand made a "pop" sound when he shook hands with Jeff.

Cobble wrote:
beeporama wrote:

I don't watch Community and I hope this isn't too much of a digression, but my wife just gave me the Childish Gambino (Donald Glover, the actor who plays Troy Barnes) album CULDESAC. It is very clever. If you have any tolerance for hip-hop, I would recommend it.

Interesting that you posted that in a thread about a show you don't watch.

Only because it is Donald Glover. I guess if Danny Pudi or someone did a really good music album, I'd post it here too.

I think they're using Senor Chang wonderfully so far.

This particular ep had one of the weakest "Jeff sees the light and returns to the group" scenes of the series. I mean, the dancing was great, but the whole "I'd rather hang out with my friends" lines felt forced.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
SommerMatt wrote:

I know that it probably makes economic sense NOT to, but I was really bummed that they didn't bother releasing COMMUNITY on blu-ray. I skipped the set for that very reason.

I know there are many that feel this way, and obviously how one chooses to spend their skrill is increasingly becoming the only true freedom we have, but I'm always confused by this train of thought. My own thinking is that tv shows, in general, aren't loaded with the rich vistas, so to me, Blu-Ray isn't justified. Share your own?

To me it's sad that if somebody wanted the high def versions of these shows, the only place to get them would be to pirate them. Usually pirated stuff is lower quality. This is the opposite.

MannishBoy wrote:

To me it's sad that if somebody wanted the high def versions of these shows, the only place to get them would be to pirate them. Usually pirated stuff is lower quality. This is the opposite.

Or you can record them yourself. I started doing it a few weeks ago with Windows Media Center. Works great. It takes some time to cut out the commercial breaks, but otherwise, it's pretty nice.

I'll keep buying shows that release on Blu-Ray but anything that only gets released on DVD.... well it can just stay on the hard drive and I save some money.

Grenn wrote:

I think they're using Senor Chang wonderfully so far.

"Know, what, he's bringing us down. Let's move him. Can we move him?"

"I quit doing blow, not being rad."

Great appearances by Cordry and Carey. I hope they make it back every now and again. Looks like Oliver is back next week. Sweet!

Quintin_Stone wrote:

This particular ep had one of the weakest "Jeff sees the light and returns to the group" scenes of the series. I mean, the dancing was great, but the whole "I'd rather hang out with my friends" lines felt forced.

Agreed -- almost to the point where I expected some sort of self referential humor regarding the cliched lines. Unless Chang's maniacal laughter was supposed to be that.

But it's a one-off, minor complaint. I'm of the opinion that Community is the best written comedy on the air at the moment.

"Don't sue her. She's a stripper. Life sued her, and she lost."

Seth wrote:

"Don't sue her. She's a stripper. Life sued her, and she lost."

Exactly

Thin_J wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

To me it's sad that if somebody wanted the high def versions of these shows, the only place to get them would be to pirate them. Usually pirated stuff is lower quality. This is the opposite.

Or you can record them yourself. I started doing it a few weeks ago with Windows Media Center. Works great. It takes some time to cut out the commercial breaks, but otherwise, it's pretty nice.

I'll keep buying shows that release on Blu-Ray but anything that only gets released on DVD.... well it can just stay on the hard drive and I save some money.

I do use 7MC, but it's still sad that if you weren't able to do that (or your cable company marked them "copy once" so that they wouldn't transfer to a new PC), you'd have to go illegal.

BTW, check out this for your commercial skipping needs. Takes some fiddling, but works pretty well most of the time. The only thing with Community for me with this method is that it skips the ending joke thing, but you can tweak some settings to fix that if you want to.

MannishBoy wrote:

(or your cable company marked them "copy once" so that they wouldn't transfer to a new PC)

Never heard of that. Weird. I get the big network shows OTA though, so I can do whatever I want with the recordings.

Also, according to most of the TV ratings sites Community is in moderate danger of being canceled this season based on its performance so far. But then, the same has been true of a certain other show for the last couple seasons and its still kicking. NBC's so desperate even shows with relatively bad ratings are sticking around simply because they just don't have anything better to run during their timeslots.

But just to be safe, Outsourced must die.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

But just to be safe, Outsourced must die.

Aww, I like Outsourced!

Thin_J wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

(or your cable company marked them "copy once" so that they wouldn't transfer to a new PC)

Never heard of that. Weird. I get the big network shows OTA though, so I can do whatever I want with the recordings.

I record most stuff I can OTA, but only have two OTA tuners and have 3 shows running at the same time right now (until we get some cancellations). Plus, some stations aren't great for me OTA, so I set channel tuner priority in 7MC on those to grab the ClearQAM tuners first in that case.

But you can have OTA stuff labeled "copy once", too. Or even "copy never", which means you can't even record it. They aren't supposed to do it by federal regulation, but it happens sometimes. Mostly by accident.

Getting a Ceton 4 tuner CableCARD tuner soon. Not sure how many of the current 4 tuners I'll keep in the setup at that point. Comcast luckily keeps most stuff "copy freely", even though the quality is worse due to compression than OTA.

On your other point, I'm pretty scared Community will get cancelled along with Chuck. Nearly the only comedies on right now that I enjoy much.

Outscorced has significantly better ratings than Community.

Sad but true.

Thin_J wrote:

Outscorced has significantly better ratings than Community.

Sad but true.

Wow.

Well, India does have a billion people....

Another gem is that sh*t My Dad Says is actually doing very well. I think it's probably a sign of the end times. Our final days are upon us.

But then I think that every time someone says they like Survivor too.

Poor Community. Smartest comedy on TV right now and it's very likely to get canceled.

How in the hell is Community getting lower ratings than outsourced and sh*t my Dad says? That's like Spam outselling bacon in a world where they are the same price.

To the millions of people who answered that question "Oh I get it, I just don't think it's that funny," I retort indignantly with "No I don't think you do get it."

I want to throw a temper tantrum now.

Seth wrote:

I want to throw a temper tantrum now.

Ditto. But, it's still only a few weeks into the new season and the numbers for new shows might burn out once the originality fades. Plus, Big Bang Theory and Community now overlap on Thursday nights, and I feel that audience is similar. I wonder what the ratings for Community are on Hulu. BBT doesn't screen episodes online and Community does, so its online share might jump quite a bit.

Community's DVD is ranked in the top 5 in Amazon's Comedy group, behind only Big Bang Theory, Glee, and Modern Family. That's not a bad group to be with.

I've heard tell that Community did as well as Outsourced is doing when it followed The Office. Why people aren't compelled to turn their TVs off once Outsourced starts is beyond me, because just the ads drive me to a foaming rage. "LAWLZ INDIA! DER NAMES IS DIFFRENT!" f*ck you, NBC, I'm not that stupid!

For the success of anything on CBS, I blame the old.

I haven't seen Outsourced yet, but I take it it's not that good? (ha ha)

Ballotechnic wrote:

I haven't seen Outsourced yet, but I take it it's not that good? (ha ha)

Yonder wrote:

Aww, I like Outsourced!

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

I've heard tell that Community did as well as Outsourced is doing when it followed The Office. Why people aren't compelled to turn their TVs off once Outsourced starts is beyond me, because just the ads drive me to a foaming rage. "LAWLZ INDIA! DER NAMES IS DIFFRENT!" f*ck you, NBC, I'm not that stupid!

Yeah, the "ferriners are funny" thing is a bit lame, but I guess I've decided that it's not the worst thing I've ever seen. It's part of the proud NBC tradition of padding semi crummy shows in between their comedic hits on Thursday nights. "The Single Guy," anyone?

The lead-in show makes a huge difference, as Spacey says. Not very many people are going to seek out a show like COMMUNITY (sadly enough), but they will watch it if it airs after another established show. Kind of sad that they put all of that effort behind OUTSOURCED instead of COMMUNITY.

Ballotechnic wrote:

I haven't seen Outsourced yet, but I take it it's not that good? (ha ha)

As I said, it's OK. Nothing great, but it's not the worst thing on TV.

Holy cow, my lungs hurt! That was an astounding ep. And Patton Oswalt as the frosting! ...and even though they made me feel bad about it, I won't lie, I liked the catfight.

"These paps aren't going to smear themselves, amirite?"

"Yeah, you both so different...skinny b*tches."

I really enjoyed that one! Lots of great lines from it.

"Now this is why I came to America."

I loved how scared and sad Chang sounded when he said "I have a right to be here."

Was there some sort of subtle side plot with Abed in this last episode?