Talk about Community here

[Albert B. Rampage]

RECKONER kept talking about Community on facebook and I decided to ask about it a bit...I saw the chinese guy from Hangover and Role Models do an interview about Community and what he would do to me if I didn't watch the show, so I gave it a try and the rest is history XD

So I just discovered that Troy is the rapper on this song: http://hypem.com/#!/item/1b48h?awesm=awe.sm...

Awesome!!!

Is Chevy Chase not coming back next year?

Can't wait until September...

What are your favorite characters on the show?

[PJ.]

In before Reckoner rapes this thread.

[Albert B. Rampage]

OMG THIS GUY WAS IN THE BRO RAPE VIDEO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zvTRQr7ns8

I had one of his songs on my playlist, liked one of his youtube videos, and didn't even know donald glover aka childish gambino aka dong lover was on Community!

[iamausername]

top ten episodes:

1. Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas
2. Contemporary American Poultry
3. Physical Education
4. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
5. Modern Warfare
6. Cooperative Calligraphy
7. For a Few Paintballs More
8. Critical Film Studies
9. Introduction to Film
10. Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking

What are your favorite characters on the show?

ALL OF THEM. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

[ReaperCharlie]

the chinese guy from Hangover

please, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

[ChannelDelibird]

Love this show so much. Watching it through again with the girlfriend at the moment, makes it about the fourth time I've watched it cover-to-cover since I discovered it a couple of months ago.

Chevy Chase is coming back next year, I believe, but it looks like he'll be taking up the season 1 Chang role of recurring antagonist. Which is good. They couldn't have kept him in the group any longer believably.

Re: favourite episodes, gotta be Modern Warfare. That was the moment the show stopped being decent and became unbelievably awesome. Possibly my favourite scene is the one in Football, Feminism and You with Jeff and Troy arguing about what's racist.

<3 Alison Brie

[Nexus]

the chinese guy from Hangover

please, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....

Oh Charlie, trust me, Ken Jeong is fantastic in Community. Senor Chang is one of the funniest things ever.

The rest of the cast are great. I love Community.

[Nightson]

The two episode paintball season finale was totally awesome.

[ChannelDelibird]

IMO Chang is the least funny character on the show. A little bit of Ken Jeong goes a long way.

The others are all pretty great (except when it was getting impossible to believe that Pierce would still be in the study group), but Abed is probably my favourite.

[Korts]

God I was so sad when Jack Black was accepted into the other group instead.

[xRECKONERx]

I've ranted about this show for like two years now so I won't rape this thread.

But I've watched the whole series front to back like three times now and it gets funnier with each watch. Anyone notice Abed's secret storyline in the background of one of the episodes?

[Albert B. Rampage]

No where?

[xRECKONERx]

In S2, there's an episode where Abed isn't seen the whole time. However, if you pay attention to the background movement in the scenes, you see Abed have his own storyline playing out where he's doing couples counseling between a married couple then ends up delivering their baby in the back of a van. It took me like three watch throughs to catch all of it.

[xRECKONERx]

Also -- just like the Cougar Town people appeared in the S2 finale, Abed appeared in the Cougar Town finale, creating some kind of weird metaverse where Cougar Town, Scrubs, and Community all exist in the same reality.

[Albert B. Rampage]

Who was the cast of cougartown in S2 finale?

[Regfan]

Community has to be one of the best shows released recently, the cast is amazing. Though it's still no match for Arrested Delveopment.

[xRECKONERx]

Abed is a known fan of the show Cougar Town. He tells a story in "Critical Film Studies" about being an extra on Cougar Town and seeing all the actors and coming up with a story for his character (Chad) and the story ends with him pooping his pants and running off-screen.

Then, in the Cougar Town finale, we see Abed in the background of one of the shots, going through the exact same existential crisis he described in that episode, and in the end he poops his pants and runs off. This means that, essentially, the characters in "Community" and the real-life actors on "Cougar Town" exist in the same universe. Abed = Courtney Cox, essentially. However, to make things weirder...

Ted from Scrubs showed up in a recent episode of Cougar Town, playing his same character from "Scrubs". So now, when you think about it, Abed watches a TV show starring Courtney Cox, and that guy from Scrubs came on during an episode to reprise his role as Ted. So our reality is watching the Community reality, who is watching the Cougar Town reality. Of course, we can also watch the Cougar Town reality. When I say "reality" I mean that the characters are "real" and not just actors.

Things get really weird, though, when you take into account the fact that the actors from Cougar Town showed up in the Community finale... just standing there at Greendale watching the end of the paintball game. They don't say anything, they just stand and cheer for the winning team. Which means they are the characters themselves, going to Greendale (a real place).

Abed has the potential to be a very bizarrely meta character. If we could get one of the other less meta characters on the show actually interact with Cougar Town or Scrubs in some way, we could get a better feel for the situation... but how it appears now is this:

People in real life (me, you) watch/can watch Cougar Town, but understand they are actors and not real characters.
Abed watches Cougar Town and actually goes as far to be an extra on the show.
Therefore, Abed exists in the same reality as us... BUT... we also watch Abed on TV, knowing that he is not a real character, meaning he's actually not beneath us.

Sam Lloyd appears on Cougar Town playing Ted Buckland from Scrubs. We, as well as Abed, see this as "Sam Lloyd appearing on Cougar Town as Ted Buckland". The Cougar Town characters see it as "Ted Buckland appearing in their lives".

That puts the hierarchy like:
Real Life (all characters below this are fictional)
Community (characters are real; Cougar Town & Scrubs are fictional)
Cougar Town & Scrubs (characters are real; no fictional people)

Really really bizarre. I can't wait to see if any other shows get pulled into this thing.

[bv310]

Re: favourite episodes, gotta be Modern Warfare. That was the moment the show stopped being decent and became unbelievably awesome. Possibly my favourite scene is the one in Football, Feminism and You with Jeff and Troy arguing about what's racist.

<3 Alison Brie

This. Including the last part.

Honourable Mentions for best episode include Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design, Epidemiology, and Debate 109.

[JDodge]

Abed is a known fan of the show Cougar Town. He tells a story in "Critical Film Studies" about being an extra on Cougar Town and seeing all the actors and coming up with a story for his character (Chad) and the story ends with him pooping his pants and running off-screen.

Then, in the Cougar Town finale, we see Abed in the background of one of the shots, going through the exact same existential crisis he described in that episode, and in the end he poops his pants and runs off. This means that, essentially, the characters in "Community" and the real-life actors on "Cougar Town" exist in the same universe. Abed = Courtney Cox, essentially. However, to make things weirder...

Ted from Scrubs showed up in a recent episode of Cougar Town, playing his same character from "Scrubs". So now, when you think about it, Abed watches a TV show starring Courtney Cox, and that guy from Scrubs came on during an episode to reprise his role as Ted. So our reality is watching the Community reality, who is watching the Cougar Town reality. Of course, we can also watch the Cougar Town reality. When I say "reality" I mean that the characters are "real" and not just actors.

Things get really weird, though, when you take into account the fact that the actors from Cougar Town showed up in the Community finale... just standing there at Greendale watching the end of the paintball game. They don't say anything, they just stand and cheer for the winning team. Which means they are the characters themselves, going to Greendale (a real place).

Abed has the potential to be a very bizarrely meta character. If we could get one of the other less meta characters on the show actually interact with Cougar Town or Scrubs in some way, we could get a better feel for the situation... but how it appears now is this:

People in real life (me, you) watch/can watch Cougar Town, but understand they are actors and not real characters.
Abed watches Cougar Town and actually goes as far to be an extra on the show.
Therefore, Abed exists in the same reality as us... BUT... we also watch Abed on TV, knowing that he is not a real character, meaning he's actually not beneath us.

Sam Lloyd appears on Cougar Town playing Ted Buckland from Scrubs. We, as well as Abed, see this as "Sam Lloyd appearing on Cougar Town as Ted Buckland". The Cougar Town characters see it as "Ted Buckland appearing in their lives".

That puts the hierarchy like:
Real Life (all characters below this are fictional)
Community (characters are real; Cougar Town & Scrubs are fictional)
Cougar Town & Scrubs (characters are real; no fictional people)

Really really bizarre. I can't wait to see if any other shows get pulled into this thing.

this seems more unnecessarily uncomplicated than most shows with

actual

multiple realities

[Albert B. Rampage]

Abed is a known fan of the show Cougar Town. He tells a story in "Critical Film Studies" about being an extra on Cougar Town and seeing all the actors and coming up with a story for his character (Chad) and the story ends with him pooping his pants and running off-screen.

Then, in the Cougar Town finale, we see Abed in the background of one of the shots, going through the exact same existential crisis he described in that episode, and in the end he poops his pants and runs off. This means that, essentially, the characters in "Community" and the real-life actors on "Cougar Town" exist in the same universe. Abed = Courtney Cox, essentially. However, to make things weirder...

Ted from Scrubs showed up in a recent episode of Cougar Town, playing his same character from "Scrubs". So now, when you think about it, Abed watches a TV show starring Courtney Cox, and that guy from Scrubs came on during an episode to reprise his role as Ted. So our reality is watching the Community reality, who is watching the Cougar Town reality. Of course, we can also watch the Cougar Town reality. When I say "reality" I mean that the characters are "real" and not just actors.

Things get really weird, though, when you take into account the fact that the actors from Cougar Town showed up in the Community finale... just standing there at Greendale watching the end of the paintball game. They don't say anything, they just stand and cheer for the winning team. Which means they are the characters themselves, going to Greendale (a real place).

Abed has the potential to be a very bizarrely meta character. If we could get one of the other less meta characters on the show actually interact with Cougar Town or Scrubs in some way, we could get a better feel for the situation... but how it appears now is this:

People in real life (me, you) watch/can watch Cougar Town, but understand they are actors and not real characters.
Abed watches Cougar Town and actually goes as far to be an extra on the show.
Therefore, Abed exists in the same reality as us... BUT... we also watch Abed on TV, knowing that he is not a real character, meaning he's actually not beneath us.

Sam Lloyd appears on Cougar Town playing Ted Buckland from Scrubs. We, as well as Abed, see this as "Sam Lloyd appearing on Cougar Town as Ted Buckland". The Cougar Town characters see it as "Ted Buckland appearing in their lives".

That puts the hierarchy like:
Real Life (all characters below this are fictional)
Community (characters are real; Cougar Town & Scrubs are fictional)
Cougar Town & Scrubs (characters are real; no fictional people)

Really really bizarre. I can't wait to see if any other shows get pulled into this thing.

Wow TL;DR and nobody cares.

Which actors of cougartown were cheering at the end in S2 finale?

[ChannelDelibird]

The meta stuff is pretty fucking awesome. I don't watch Cougar Town so the Abed & Ted cameos completely passed me by.

[xRECKONERx]

Abed is a known fan of the show Cougar Town. He tells a story in "Critical Film Studies" about being an extra on Cougar Town and seeing all the actors and coming up with a story for his character (Chad) and the story ends with him pooping his pants and running off-screen.

Then, in the Cougar Town finale, we see Abed in the background of one of the shots, going through the exact same existential crisis he described in that episode, and in the end he poops his pants and runs off. This means that, essentially, the characters in "Community" and the real-life actors on "Cougar Town" exist in the same universe. Abed = Courtney Cox, essentially. However, to make things weirder...

Ted from Scrubs showed up in a recent episode of Cougar Town, playing his same character from "Scrubs". So now, when you think about it, Abed watches a TV show starring Courtney Cox, and that guy from Scrubs came on during an episode to reprise his role as Ted. So our reality is watching the Community reality, who is watching the Cougar Town reality. Of course, we can also watch the Cougar Town reality. When I say "reality" I mean that the characters are "real" and not just actors.

Things get really weird, though, when you take into account the fact that the actors from Cougar Town showed up in the Community finale... just standing there at Greendale watching the end of the paintball game. They don't say anything, they just stand and cheer for the winning team. Which means they are the characters themselves, going to Greendale (a real place).

Abed has the potential to be a very bizarrely meta character. If we could get one of the other less meta characters on the show actually interact with Cougar Town or Scrubs in some way, we could get a better feel for the situation... but how it appears now is this:

People in real life (me, you) watch/can watch Cougar Town, but understand they are actors and not real characters.
Abed watches Cougar Town and actually goes as far to be an extra on the show.
Therefore, Abed exists in the same reality as us... BUT... we also watch Abed on TV, knowing that he is not a real character, meaning he's actually not beneath us.

Sam Lloyd appears on Cougar Town playing Ted Buckland from Scrubs. We, as well as Abed, see this as "Sam Lloyd appearing on Cougar Town as Ted Buckland". The Cougar Town characters see it as "Ted Buckland appearing in their lives".

That puts the hierarchy like:
Real Life (all characters below this are fictional)
Community (characters are real; Cougar Town & Scrubs are fictional)
Cougar Town & Scrubs (characters are real; no fictional people)

Really really bizarre. I can't wait to see if any other shows get pulled into this thing.

this seems more unnecessarily uncomplicated than most shows with

actual

multiple realities

Oh quite so
Not nearly as confusing as the Tommy Westphal Universe spawned from the St Elsewhere finale.

[xRECKONERx]

Just a few films/TV shows that are now a part of that universe:

Lost
Alias
The Office (UK)
Veronica Mars
all the Star Treks
etc

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html

A better explanation but dear god what a mindfuck

[DarthYoshi]

In before Reckoner rapes

this thread

the Ducaine family.

FTFY.

My Top 5 Episodes:
Modern Warfare
Contemporary American Poultry
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
A Fistful of Paintballs
Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design

Honorable mention to Paradigms of Human Memory.

I *really* wanted to like Debate 109, as I debated in both high school and college, but...it was tough. It was painfully funny, but also, at times, painful.

<3 Alison Brie

This.

A little bit of Ken Jeong goes a long way.

I agree, but that doesn't make him less funny, it just means he has to stay a supporting character. He's a little like Creed from The Office--he's at his best when he's limited to 3-4 utterly insane one-liners. That's still funny.

I really hope they bring back Eliza Coupe's guest character as that Secret Service agent who had a thing for Abed. That was hilarious. And I love Eliza Coupe...she was, like, the only good thing about Scrubs towards the end of that series.

[Jahudo]

Which actors of cougartown were cheering at the end in S2 finale?

I guess its only for two seconds but here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXEYq4R5NY

Also Abed on Cougar Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWfJYJMrYa0
Abed talking about being on Cougar Town: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7iB3sPYf8