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"That's because the productive part of society is adverse to giving up all their wealth so you libs can conduct your social experiments. Experience tells us your a bunch of snake oil salesman...Sucks to be you." ~Calgaryborn 12/06/09 keeping it really stupid!
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There are plenty of crazy characters on Community, but none is as genuinely certifiable as Ken Jeong's Benjamin Chang. He began season one as a madcap, authoritarian Spanish professor, but by season two had devolved into an occasionally Gollum-like creature, a man who boasted of eating his twin in utero (no, really) and was also a lonely outsider longing to be let into the study-group clique. So what does Community creator Dan Harmon have in store for Chang come season three? We caught up with Harmon last week for the scoop, which you can find below — along with an exclusive Vulture preview of a new NBC.com video montage compiling some of Chang's most memorable moments.
Harmon tells us that after drifting around a bit last season without a clear mission, "This season I hope to tell a more structured story about Chang." Specifically, Jeong's character will be a security guard when classes resume September 22. "We have a story line that will detail his rise to power," he says. "I wanted to tell a story of acquiring power and what it does to you. It's a little Macbeth or Scarface. Or maybe something from The Wire." Will Chang be a corrupt fake cop? "He's corrupt in the sense that the campus is less secure than if he wasn't a security guard. But he's mostly insane," Harmon explains.
Michael K. Williams, best known as Omar from The Wire, is joining the cast of the NBC series for at least three episodes this fall. He'll be playing the Greendale gang's new biology professor
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I was recommended this show a month ago. As soon as I watched the first episode, it was all down hill from there. I couldn't stop watching one after another. There is not a bad episode in my eyes (even the Christmas stop-motion animation one.) I can't name a better comedy on the air now. Miles above Parks and Rec in my opinion.
I was recommended this show a month ago. As soon as I watched the first episode, it was all down hill from there. I couldn't stop watching one after another. There is not a bad episode in my eyes (even the Christmas stop-motion animation one.) I can't name a better comedy on the air now. Miles above Parks and Rec in my opinion.
I like Parks and Rec better, I only started watching that show 2 weeks ago and I've already watched all 3 seasons 3 times! How ever, I think these are the 2 funniest shows on tv right now. Which is a shame because they are 2 of the lowest rated shows for viewership.
I watch The Big Bang Theory but I don't really think it is that great, I more or less watch it just for Kaley Cuoco, but that shows ratings keep growing and the episodes are getting worse and worse.
On the other hand, Community and Parks and Rec are getting better with each season and their ratings are decreasing. It's pathetic really, and I know that Parks and Rec and Community only have 1 or 2 more seasons before they are inevitably cancelled because of low ratings.
I don't understand how this show can get low ratings. I can see it for Parks and Rec only because the formatting is similar to The Office, so people are probably put off by that. The humor is much better though.
Community, I find, has me laughing more frequently. Troy, Abed and Pierce steal the show for sure. Plus...Annie.
I don't understand how this show can get low ratings. I can see it for Parks and Rec only because the formatting is similar to The Office, so people are probably put off by that. The humor is much better though.
Community, I find, has me laughing more frequently. Troy, Abed and Pierce steal the show for sure. Plus...Annie.
It might be comedy that's too smart or ahead of its time, like Arrested Development...
I don't understand how this show can get low ratings. I can see it for Parks and Rec only because the formatting is similar to The Office, so people are probably put off by that. The humor is much better though.
Community, I find, has me laughing more frequently. Troy, Abed and Pierce steal the show for sure. Plus...Annie.
I know. I think it is too clever for people and because it doesn't have a stupid laugh track people don't know what's funny and what's not.
Parks and Rec is the same format as The Office but is way funnier, the inside jokes are hilarious just like with Arrested Development. I think Parks and Rec is the best written show right now with Community being number 2.
I think sometimes Community tries to be too clever, especially season 2 compared to season 1.
But it's a shame that these 2 shows will probably be cancelled in a year or two. For Parks and Rec to succeed they need to kill The Office and I think the ratings will be way better and considering The Office really isn't that great anymore and with Carrell gone, it might be the last season.
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So my wife watches Cougar Town, and she tells me to watch the beginning of the episode from last nights season finale. Two of the characters are eating outside a subway and starbucks and guess who is in the background as an extra?
Wow, a callback to the episode "Critical Film Studies" when Abed described getting to be an extra on the set of Cougar Town.
Love it.
I'm out of thanks and wanted to mention that this both blew my mind and made my morning.
'Greendale is a sick place'... DJ Steve Porter's latest remix for Community. Gets good around the one-minute mark.
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"That's because the productive part of society is adverse to giving up all their wealth so you libs can conduct your social experiments. Experience tells us your a bunch of snake oil salesman...Sucks to be you." ~Calgaryborn 12/06/09 keeping it really stupid!
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I just started watching Community recently. I had seen bits and pieces when it first started and didn't think it was a show I was going to like so I previously hadn't committed to it. But, what a good show it actually is. It reminds me a bit of 30 Rock - once they realized it wasn't a show that would draw really big ratings they just went for it and make it totally weird (30 Rock had an episode the writers and creaters dubbed "Goodbye America" because it was so weird they figured it would mean cancellation). Like 30 Rock, Community gets weirder as it goes on, but that's exactly what makes it better - almost no attempt anymore at mainstream appeal.
Abed is one of the all time great sitcom characters.
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Community’s “Remedial Chaos Theory” was about the smartest, most entertaining use of an alternate timeline concept since we first glimpsed Evil Spock’s goatee in Star Trek’s “Mirror Mirror” episode, the ur-text for all subsequent parallel universe storytelling. But “Remedial Chaos Theory” wasn’t sci-fi. Actually, it called to mind Groundhog Day in the prismatic way it employed its high-concept gimmick to shed new light on its characters.
Community’s “Remedial Chaos Theory” was about the smartest, most entertaining use of an alternate timeline concept since we first glimpsed Evil Spock’s goatee in Star Trek’s “Mirror Mirror” episode, the ur-text for all subsequent parallel universe storytelling. But “Remedial Chaos Theory” wasn’t sci-fi. Actually, it called to mind Groundhog Day in the prismatic way it employed its high-concept gimmick to shed new light on its characters.
Another innovative, imaginative gem . . . .
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