Something that I have noticed within the community is that there seems to be a mixed reception towards the development of Abed throughout the series (starting for a lot of people around Season 3). How would you say you think Abed's character development was throughout the show?

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It is now my most prized possession. Chevy looked at it and asked what it was, I said it was like one from an episode of Community but it wasn't the actual doll, and he said that he didn't remember that. Very Pierce of him. Part of me hoped he would refuse to sign it just because it would track! But he was pretty nice which was a very nice surprise. The girl behind me in line had a Let's T-shirt on with the quote "Get your Damn Hands off my Let's" it filled my heart with joy and I ordered one right away because of course I did.

Just finished S2E9 of The Bear on Hulu and the character Richie used the phrase "streets ahead" when addressing the restaurant staff. Made me laugh.

I joined this sub and now it's private but doesn't seem to be going public again.

Was wondering how to join it?

First post ever. On mobile. Generally no idea what I’m doing so sorry if I’m doing it wrong.

I’m a 20-something dropout who just returned to community college (Greenfield Community College, close enough lol) and I’m majoring in psychology. I wanted to be an Abed, but I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that I am literally Britta.

But anyway, I haven’t seen this “Easter egg” mentioned anywhere and I’ve been searching for a couple weeks.

In Contemporary Impressionists Britta says, “For our midterm, we actually get to diagnose a fellow student with something”. For obvious reasons, you would NEVER have a test or assignment to diagnose a fellow student or any actual person, especially in a 101 class.

For my current Psychology101 class, our final is going to be “diagnosing” a TV show character.

So was Britta’s midterm exam actually to diagnose a TV show character AKA a fellow student on this TV show.

I’ve spent way too long thinking about this and I have no idea why cause it’s not that interesting or exciting of a “easter egg.” But do you think they did it intentionally? It’s a very standard intro assignment and I’m sure a lot of the writers took a psych class.

https://screenrant.com/the-community-movie-already-has-a-major-cast-problem/

Would the movie be a failure without Starburns, Magnitude or Leonard?

While I love all of the show, Frankie Dart is my favourite character (and not just because of my massive crush on Paget Brewster). I love Basic Email Security and find the email betting pool hilarious and I am very interested and curious about hearing people’s thoughts, wishes, hopes (although Frankie herself wouldn’t want you to hope), and theories about her sexuality.

None of my friends watch community so I want to chat but have no one to discuss with.

ALSO, what on earth do you think Annie could have guessed???!

Hello fellow studyroomf denizens,

It has been quite a while! Joel McHale has just posted this to his Instagram. Any thoughts on these new developments?

edit: Ken jeong has something to add

Edit: yep

Edit: we did it Reddit!

I’m excluding Chang, because I have done this in past polls and he always wins in a landslide. So I am sorry if he is your favorite, in which case, who is your second favorite?

Also, the Dean is not an option as he was never technically a member of the Study Group nor the Save Greendale Committee.

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The man is a menace, and just about everyone has told him off.

Obviously I couldn’t include them all because Reddit only allows for 6 options on polls. So I narrowed it down to the funniest/harshest ones. But, by all means, if your favorite isn’t on here, toss it into the comments!

Shut up Leonard!...

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So my last post got a lot more attention than I expected and people do seem interested in a rewatch. So my plan is to make a stickied post once a week (likely on Mondays) where we will discuss the episodes scheduled for that week. The only question is how many episodes should we plan to watch each week? We could just tear apart one episode a week, but since each episode is pretty short I could definitely see us doing 2 or 3. Here is the poll and I will see you all on Monday.

Hey, I know this isn't a very active subreddit, but I requested the sub awhile back just to remove all the spam (turns out having the word study in the name attracts bots). I also touched up the rules since the last mod had some weird rant about the main sub mods that was out of place and added a rule about bigotry. It hasn't been an issue but I just want to be transparent about how the sub will be run. I never moderated a sub before so I accidentally restricted posting to approved users only when I just meant to keep the text post only rule. That has been fixed so the two people who requested posting privileges should be able to post things now.

The subreddit hasn't been too active, which makes sense considering the show ended in 2015, but I used to be a big fan of the sub so I want to keep it clean. If people would be interested in a rewatch we could attempt something like that, with a weekly discussion thread for each episode. I think watching the show one episode at a time lets the viewer approach the show differently than binge watching, plus it's interesting to see what people can pick up. So if anyone is interested in a rewatch let me know.

I just re watched community and I am getting a really weird feeling from season 5&6. Didn’t community used to be a really good and funny and engaging show? Even researching it the second time I couldn’t look away for fear of missing a great joke or a plot line. The characters were subtle and there was a lot of “reading in between the lines” that kept me intrigued. I started noticing weird stuff in season 5 like people openly stating character traits about themselves that used to be left up to the audiences perception. For example, Britta started saying she used to live in New York way more than she ever did in s1-4 Abed suddenly starts doing the strangest impressions at really weird times it feels uncomfortable and forced. Whenever the alternate timelines are brought up I feel awkward. He lost the charm of the whole tv and life gets confusing thing too. Jeff I’m not really sure what happened there but I don’t love him as much as I used to. He stands up and makes sweeping declarations and then the worst is when everyone says “this is a sweeping declaration” Troy and pierce, I miss you so much Annie I miss the old you Shirley became a background character so quickly. Chang’s plotline got completely abandoned Overall the show became too meta in itself and I’m not gripped by it anymore, I don’t feel anything towards the characters. They repeat and reference jokes from the good seasons, but it’s doing nothing to save them. The worst thing is the theme song used to be something I enjoyed and never skipped. Today I skipped it for the first time. It doesn’t carry the same happiness it used to. I feel almost disgusted that it is attached to these characters I don’t recognize. Do you all feel the same? Someone tell me what happened :(

Spoilers. Just in case.

I studied Film in University, but this directorial choice still baffles me. Why does Annie look into the camera when she finds out Abed is catfishing her? Is it a commentary on that any one of us could be a catfish, or is it a reflection of the fact that Annie is messing with Abed's brain when he is the meta-audienc?

https://redd.it/6fcgdb

I don't think I ever posted, but, cereal, I loved the debates about the nuances of our beloved show.

Anyway, hope you are all, well...coolcoolcool.

#ripcommunity

It would be nice to have them all in one places.

I wanted to discuss a line I came across during a recent rewatch of the show that got me thinking a bit. After Britta and Slater both confess their love to Jeff at the dance, Jeff walks out and runs into Annie outside. He reveals his thoughts to her about them in this line:

Slater makes me feel like I do when I write my New Years Resolutions. She makes me feel like the guy I wanna be. And Britta makes me feel like the guy I am three weeks after New Years when I'm back to hitting the snooze button and screening my mother's phone calls, back to who I really am. So... do you try to evolve? Or do you try to know what you are?

It's only during my most recent re-watch that this line struck me as a bit false, that it should be the other way around.

As we all know, Jeff starts the series as a disbarred lawyer, fallen from grace and forced to slog through community college to get a degree and resume his regular life. He's a smooth-talker, witty, manipulative, a liar. He forms the study group to get with Britta, the hot blonde in Spanish class. However, from the start, Britta is the one that challenges Jeff's calculating exterior. In Pilot (S1E1), she tells him that her "deal" is honesty, and his hesitation in lying to her is the first sign of a crack in the Winger mask. He tells her the truth, she respects him for doing so, and we go from there.

Fast-forward to the conversation in Advanced Criminal Law (S1E5) Jeff and Britta have in the pool locker room. Jeff tells Britta, (in classic Winger fashion), that he could have any girl, but he wants her because he likes her. This is remarkably candid for someone as guarded as Jeff likes to keep himself, and serves as more evidence he has feelings for her that go beyond what he's used to feeling from romantic conquests in his former life. It signifies a change in the way he views potential partners. This is developed later in The Politics of Human Sexuality (S1E11) when after a talk with Britta about how he stores women in his cell phone contacts, he changes her from "Blonde Spanish Class" to "Britta."

In Modern Warfare, the two are paired in the study room alone and have this exchange:

Britta: I try to act compassionate because I'm afraid that I'm not.

Jeff: Oh please, I invented phony. You care about people; I accuse you of faking to convince myself I'm not such a jerk.

Britta: Jeff you help people more than I do and you don't even want to. You're not.., you're not a jerk, you're fine.

Britta helps Jeff realize fundamental flaws about who he is. In The Science of Illusion (S1E20), Jeff tells her:

You’re like the dark cloud that unites us, or the anti-Winger. You’re the heart of this group. I don’t have a real handle on all this mushy stuff. If I did, then we wouldn’t need you.

Indeed, many fans and critics have pointed to Britta being the heart of the study group throughout the series. Jeff remarks in Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts (S2E22) that she's so driven to help her friends that she'll do it until she throws up, and I think even though that occurs later in the series, it's a summation of who she is from the start. Jeff obviously sees this in her, and it allows him to confront truths about himself and grow as a person. Britta is the perfect foil to his personality.

Contrast this with Professor Slater. Slater is a lot like Jeff; she's a fast-talking statistics professor who matches wits with Jeff in their snappy repartee. She's overtly sensual, unlike Britta's quirky, sometimes goofy behavior. Her status as a teacher makes the idea of a relationship a rush for Jeff, a forbidden opportunity. (Britta has a line recognizing this somewhere). Their relationship is fundamentally immature. In Interpretive Dance (S1E14), Jeff and Slater have a falling out after Jeff describes their relationship as "the best friend ever" for having sex every day for the past three weeks. On the surface, it seems like their reconciliation is a moment of growth for Winger, but really all it does is preserve the status quo. Jeff tells her that it doesn't matter to him what they call their relationship as long as it stays the way it is. Slater goes on to break up with Jeff in the way Jeff probably ended things in the past with other women: with a wise-crack.

Slater: We have to talk.

Jeff (sarcastically): You're not breaking up with me are you?

Slater: Oh good, maybe we don't have to talk.

Just like that, it's over. It's only in Pascal's Triangle that she resurfaces just as quickly as she left and seductively approaches Jeff to win him back. She reveals her true colors when she insults Britta and knowingly toys with her to make her jealous and look ridiculous in front of Jeff.

Slater is the fit for Jeff who screens his mother's calls, who gives up on his resolutions. Britta is the one who sees past Jeff's façade and helps him realize he has a heart. She represents the option to evolve, because not only does she help him realize who he is, she helps him grow from it. Jeff knows where he stands with Slater because their relationship isn't nearly as profound. His friendship with Britta is uncharted emotional territory, but it looks to be much more rewarding than Slater.

For whatever reason, I was more attuned to this culmination of the dynamics between the three this go-round, and so when I watched that line I had to rewind to make sure I had caught it right. I really do think it should be the other way around, and I don't think Jeff, (though clearly confused at that point), would be so confused as to not realize it when he told Annie. With that I leave it open to your thoughts. I know the sub is dead with the show essentially over, but I decided to try anyway because there are still ~4,000 subs, and I wasn't aware of this sub when the show was airing.

EDIT: This edit is coming months after the original post, but I came up with another piece of evidence directly from the show that supports my feelings on the matter. In Communication Studies (S1E16), Abed and Jeff are preparing for Jeff's drunk dial to Britta to restore balance to their friendship. They discuss Jeff's feelings for both women, and the following dialog comes from their exchange:

Jeff: I'm happy with Michelle.

Abed: Yeah Slater is low-maintenance.

Jeff: Mm, the lowest!

Abed: Britta: irritating, impossible, unpredictable, and she didn't like you so it felt useless to like her. Slater likes you how you are, expects nothing from you, you're safe from change.

I don't know how it didn't make it into the original; this is pretty much explicit confirmation that Slater represents the option for Jeff to know who he is, rather than evolve. I'm really glad to have honed in on it as it puts a nice little bow on the whole thing, and gives Britta's character more credit with regards to her relationship with Jeff. She certainly deserves it!

[Imdb] Modern Warfare (2010)

This episode spoofs a number of classic action movies; many from the 80s and 90s, including: "28 Days Later" (when Jeff wakes from his nap and surveys the desolate campus), "Highlander" (The Prize), "The Matrix" (Abed's wall jump), "The Terminator" (come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes), "Predator" (Jeff Winger, you son of a bitch!), "Escape From New York" (I thought you were dead, man), "The Fifth Element" (Annie popping out of the trashcan), Mexican Standoff (popular in many 'spaghetti westerns' and Tarantino films), "Red Dawn" (the group gathering around a fire discussing what they'll do with the prize), "The Warriors" (Disco Stu egging the study group 'to come out and play'), "Saving Private Ryan" (Shirley quoting the Bible while shooting), "The Running Man" (Chang urging Dean to put him in the game), "Die Hard" ('No paintballs, Hans?...what do you think I am, stupid!?'), "Hard Boiled" (Chang's entrance/outfit), "Scarface" (Chang shooting up the study room one-handed), "The Matrix" (bullet time effect), "Wanted" (bullets hitting each other mid-air), "Predator" (Chang maniacal cackling as the bomb is about to go off), "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" (Jeff shooting up Dean's office), "Die Hard" (the entire sequence in Dean's office, really. From Jeff's arrival yelling out 'Deeeeeaaaaannn!!' to laughing with Dean before it's revealed he has another gun taped to his back and he shoots Dean in the head). Additionally, Jeff's outfit is almost identical to Bruce Willis in "Die Hard" (he even ends up without shoes) and the entire episode's score mocks "Lost"

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Season finale! We're all done! Time to find boring regular life stuff to occupy the time until we get some new Community content - it'll happen, don't worry.

Or, we could discuss this episode for the next 9 months... So, what did you think?

“I can't be the first person to tell you that the temple doesn't last forever. I mean it's made of hamburger. This is a temple of doom and you know what: like the real Temple of Doom, it represents the inconvenient fact that all good things--be they people or movie franchises--eventually collapse into sagging, sloppy, rotten piles of hard-to-follow nonsense.”— Nurse Jackie

Most of us are disappointed with where this season took our once-beloved characters. I don't have to tell you that the core four have regressed more than developed (positively). From what we know about the finale now, this is what I hope for: Abed imagines how the next year could go, using TV tropes and what not. But the atmosphere in all those visions is ultimately negative. After a while, the other characters realize this and start pointing out how they've ended up almost as bad as when they first came to Greendale. Annie acknowledges that she has lost her goal, but also that Jeff has become an unhappy alcoholic and Britta has stopped being an activist. Abed realizes that he has recently not had any big successes in filmmaking and finally admits that he still misses Troy. Elroy and Frankie feel left out, they haven't turned bad like the rest of the gang. Just like Chang, who insists that he has become a better person because of them. But the core four can't be convinced, they've realized that they are bad for each other and decide to split up in order to make progress again. Everyone is unhappy but determined that this was the best decision. Only Jeff is really depressed. He realizes that he can't possibly live without his friends like six years before. He gets them together one more time and boom, Winger speech, they're good for each other... He points out all the good things that have happened to them in the last six years and that he's become a better person. Maybe Frankie, Elroy and Chang join in and thank the group for being friends with them, even though they're outcasts. The Dean can jump in too... Anyway, Jeff concludes that something else must be the reason that they have drifted off during the last one to two years. The group realizes that their work at Greendale has kept them from developing further and they finally decide that they need to leave the school so they can stay friends while not being bad for each other. Season 7 resumes with the group members being real people, having real responsibilities and the title Community now stands for the group instead of the school. Wouldn't that be great?

So here we are, 1 episode away from the Season finale, and I can't help but think this is going to be the only season which I won't miss, like at all, and this is including Season 4 which says something I guess.

This season has disappointed me in so many ways. I feel like I'm watching just another half hour sitcom, rather than a show I considered one of the best shows ever at one point of time.

Where do I start....

1. Character Development has totally gone out of the window. This season has pretty much been a parody of meta stuff and one off jokes without any continuation. The characters are not acting like themselves, and one goes from one episode to the other like the previous episode never happened, it is all reset and nothing comes of it.

2. Annie has not acted like herself at all, starting from the 1st episode itself. How was it in her character to be okay with the whole speakeasy thing and not bat an eyelid about it. She's happy partying, drinking and what not, and then we see in Laws of Robotics how she;s warning Britta about partying in the apartment, again coming back to how inconsistent the characters have been this season.

3. Jeff's emotional crisis of being left behind at Greendale while his friends are ready seems to move on seems to have come out of nowhere this season. He;s become a functioning alcoholic and not enough reasoning has been provided for that. Then we have, the likes of Frankie and Annie talk about him like he's a total stranger and has issues which is understandable from Frankie;s point of view, but not from Annie's. Could it be that she's hurt so much from last season's events that she isn;t even a close friend of jeff;s anymore ? If that is the case, there should have been some moments between them to address that fact.

4. Possibly no follow up on Basic Sandwich ( if the finale's preview is anything to go by, I think I can safely say it would be left hanging ). Your main character has fallen in love, and you don't follow up on that event, like at all. People can argue that in real life it could be years before a guy would make a move and that's fine, but this is not real life, it's a TV show, and in a TV show, I expect the writing to be consistent which means that they should have at least addressed the J/A thing directly but it hasn't been the case.

5. No exclusive scenes between Jeff and Annie this season. These are Dan Harmon's words after Season 5 " Jeff and Annie is where the power is, their chemistry just crackles off screen ". Now when the show runner himself acknowledges that they have such amazing chemistry, why has there been not even a single scene they shared together ? And forget about the romantic side of it, how about the friendship side of it, are we to believe they aren't even close friends anymore who seek each other for advise ? It;s simply not believable if that is the case.

6. Extended role for the likes of Dean and Chang, and Britta to an extent and not enough storylines for Annie, Abed and Jeff. Jeff was like the main character for most of the show's run, and now he's become a bit, part player. Jeff teaching was going to be the focus this season but God knows what went wrong on that front.

Seems like this went on for too long, but I'd like to hear your inputs about this season.

How did you find Season 6 ?

Hey all,

So, I'm not sure if there's some sort of rule about who kicks these off, but seeing as there isn't one right at this second...

What are your thoughts?

So I just watched repilot for the first time in a long while. While I think the episode is strong, so many things it sets up are never resolved. Abed wanting to learn how to work with people (a very key ability needed in film making), Chang being a Math teacher and under Greendale house arrest, Annie and Britta working towards their majors, and Shirley and her Husband's problems. It was a really dark episode (literally and figuratively) but I think it did a great job of re-establishing who these characters are and what their new goals are... it's just such a shame it feels like they never followed through on any of it. We hardly even get to see Jeff teaching after two seasons. I saw so much potential that this episode set up and seasons 5 and 6 wasted. Heck I kind of liked the idea that maybe Greendale should be sued and destroyed. The show isn't by any means terrible, but I feel like the problems it has now wouldn't have happened if the show stayed on the trajectory that repilot set it on. What do you guys think?

What did you guys think of the episode?

What did you guys think of this episode?

I thought it was pretty good in terms of the laughs, however as much as I have 'liked' each episode of Community this season, I feel like most of the episodes have something 'off' about them or they leave something out that makes me think that there could be more. I don't know how to articulate it, but I just think something's missing compared to the Community of old. Even Season 5's style wasn't as jarring.

Anyway ignore me, discuss away!

What did you all think of this one?

Personally, I'm not completely sure what to think. There were plenty of parts I laughed at (the first time we saw Garrett with his #WhoIsGlipGlop shirt really got me for some reason), but I think it lacked the same thing many of these S6 episodes have lacked, or at least what has made this season feel different. The episodes and stories aren't as character driven anymore. It didn't feel like the writers could commit to an emotional direction for the episode to take. It started with Abed being apprehensive about compromising his vision and values (similar to Pillows and Blankets) and then all of a sudden takes a turn to Jeff worrying about being left alone at Greendale (along the same thought pattern as GI Jeff). I don't want to say for certain, but it felt a little shoehorned in, maybe I'll change tune after another viewing.

I've actually been pleasantly surprised.

Frankie: When she was initially introduced, I didn't have much in the way of expectations. Her role seemed to be the foil for the more irreverent characters. In some ways that used to be Jeff and Annie's job, but they moved away from it. So I'm glad that's back. I think it's necessary to have a more grounded character who can be the projection of the normal viewer into the story. But it's also nice that they're working on her backstory. There's some sort of tragedy (dead sister and intense privacy) there and I'm curious to know more. I hope they don't rush this aspect of her development for a quick, cathartic episode.

Elroy: In many ways he's very similar to Pierce - a bit of an old, crank. I actually think I'll enjoy him more though since he seems to have the intellect to back it up (and Keith David just has a fantastic voice to listen to), as opposed to Pierce who used money for power. Maybe I'm an exception, but I was never much of a Chevy fan. He was good at being overblown, but when moments of subtle acting were required, I found him lacking.