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Community - Season 4 [US] *Spoilers*

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    #1652
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    That was great - Jim Rash did it justice...
    Annie swooning over the Dean was hilarious.
    Thought the Freaky Friday bit + Break Up Storyline was really clever...
    Its the first episode this season that has made me hope the show will get renewed - they really need to get their writing staff in order though if it is renewed. With Megan Ganz over on Modern Family now, they'll need some fresh blood.


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    #1653
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users Posts: 14,685 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    I really enjoyed that.

    But I dont know how much of that enjoyment was from them axing things that were clearly not working (troy/britta) and giving some characters something new to do (I dont think I heard a single Dean pun that whole episode)


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    #1654
    Kilkenny14
    Registered Users Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Kilkenny14


    Jim Rash clearly hit the gym hard over the break - it's always funny how Annie swoons over a Jeff/Don Draper confidence act.

    First funny end scene as well, but Im not sure how to rate this season yet.


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    #1655
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Much, much better. There may be hope yet.


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    #1656
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes, it was a much better episode that previous ones. Loved the whole body switch thing between Troy and Abed. Only thing that irked me was how in your face about the Dean's sexuality they were at the end. What worked was the undertones of what he was saying, but they just made it so blatantly obvious then!


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    #1657
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes, it was a much better episode that previous ones. Loved the whole body switch thing between Troy and Abed. Only thing that irked me was how in your face about the Dean's sexuality they were at the end. What worked was the undertones of what he was saying, but they just made it so blatantly obvious then!

    They really seem to have this bizarre need to overemphasize jokes to the point where they stop being funny. First time: ha, very good. Second time: yes, that's OK, I did get it the first time. Third: Alright already. Fourth: you've somehow managed to make the first time retroactively not funny.

    Nitpick: does Abed ever call Troy "buddy"? I would have thought that would be more the other way around. Yet it's the first thing switched AbedInTroy says to TroyInAbed(in a bed).


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    #1658
    FlyingIrishMan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭FlyingIrishMan


    I'm not sure if people got this straight away, I didn't until later in the episode.
    But Troy and Abed didn't actually switch bodies, it was just sort of a coping measure for Troy to break up with Britta but he didn't want to jeopardise their friendship so he woke up being Abed and when he woke up the real Abed he soon caught on and just went along with it.


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    #1659
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    FlyingIrishMan wrote: »
    I'm not sure if people got this straight away, I didn't until later in the episode.
    But Troy and Abed didn't actually switch bodies, it was just sort of a coping measure for Troy to break up with Britta but he didn't want to jeopardise their friendship so he woke up being Abed and when he woke up the real Abed he soon caught on and just went along with it.

    it was explained as the episode went along.

    Jim Rash did a good job with this one.


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    #1660
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    FlyingIrishMan wrote: »
    I'm not sure if people got this straight away, I didn't until later in the episode.
    But Troy and Abed didn't actually switch bodies, it was just sort of a coping measure for Troy to break up with Britta but he didn't want to jeopardise their friendship so he woke up being Abed and when he woke up the real Abed he soon caught on and just went along with it.

    Oh so you think it's like a reversal of the usual thing where someone (or the whole group) go along with something to help Abed through something that he doesn't have the mental/social skills to deal with?

    Interesting theory I have to say. What about the Dean and Jeff? There were two Jeffs and no Deans, I don't understand how that could have happened.


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    #1661
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh so you think it's like a reversal of the usual thing where someone (or the whole group) go along with something to help Abed through something that he doesn't have the mental/social skills to deal with?

    Interesting theory I have to say. What about the Dean and Jeff? There were two Jeffs and no Deans, I don't understand how that could have happened.

    Dean was being aspirational... Jeff was having none of it.


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    #1662
    nkay1985
    Registered Users Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    Loved it. Absolutely loved it.

    Probably the first time I've cared about any of the characters this season.


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    #1663
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Good God... that was actually very VERY good.

    Hey Community writing staff... here's a tip: maybe let the Oscar winning screenwriter write more episodes!

    So many great moments this episode.. makes up for the previous 10 mediocre to atrocious episodes!

    Jim Rash writing any more this season? Probably unlikely.


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    #1664
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Hmmm, I've been hanging about on this thread on the off chance the show might take a turn upwards again. Sounds like this week's episode was by all accounts a good one?


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    #1665
    FlyingIrishMan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭FlyingIrishMan


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Hmmm, I've been hanging about on this thread on the off chance the show might take a turn upwards again. Sounds like this week's episode was by all accounts a good one?

    Yeah. This week was great, even up there with some of the bests from season 1 and 2 in my opinion.
    Last weeks episode was decent enough too if you didn't watch that.


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    #1666
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Yeah, probably the best episode since Troy & Abed's House Warming. Better than most of Season 3 anyway.

    The Dean's perseverance and Jeff's complete reluctance to play along was excellent.

    Loved Troy's Abedisms as well, it was spot on!


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    #1667
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    Very good episode this week, reminded why I started watching it in the first place.


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    #1668
    colinod0806
    Closed Accounts Posts: 614 ✭✭✭colinod0806


    Definite big improvement this week, hopefully it continues now. No complaints really except to ask is Jeff going to have a sentimental monologue every week now? It seems really out of character.


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    #1669
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    colinod0806 wrote: »
    Definite big improvement this week, hopefully it continues now. No complaints really except to ask is Jeff going to have a sentimental monologue every week now? It seems really out of character.

    Have you seen any of the past seasons??


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    #1670
    colinod0806
    Closed Accounts Posts: 614 ✭✭✭colinod0806


    miralize wrote: »
    Have you seen any of the past seasons??

    All of them.


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    #1671
    EdK
    Registered Users Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭EdK


    colinod0806 wrote: »
    All of them.

    Jeff is known for his sentimental monologues and rousing speeches usually to his own gain but sometimes to prove he's not totally self centered after all


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    #1672
    miralize
    Registered Users Posts: 6,207 ✭✭✭miralize


    colinod0806 wrote: »
    All of them.

    The only difference with this one compared to others is that this was interlaced with cutaway scenes that helped finish the plot, it wasn't that much of a difference


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    #1673
    colinod0806
    Closed Accounts Posts: 614 ✭✭✭colinod0806


    Well I think they have been more soppy lately. It could be just me but anyway it's not a big deal. I was just nitpicking, I actually really enjoyed this week's episode.


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    #1674
    EyeSight
    Registered Users Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭EyeSight


    What a brilliant episode! From the Dean being Jeff to Try and Abeds brilliant impressions of each other!
    Jim Rash(the Dean) wrote this ep and it is a pity he didn't write more.
    Anyone else notice the writing on the whiteboard in the study room behind Annie. That's October 19th!

    Such a shame to still see Pierce get no story still....


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    #1675
    EdK
    Registered Users Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭EdK


    Pierce isn't even on the show anymore really he must have filmed only bits and pieces because they either work around it or exclude him completely, Pity Chevy was so difficult as he was always one of the stronger characters


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    #1676
    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    Odd, I didn't really like that episode a whole lot. Can't stand Rash's character either.

    Moar paintball please!


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    #1677
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    colinod0806 wrote: »
    Well I think they have been more soppy lately. It could be just me but anyway it's not a big deal. I was just nitpicking, I actually really enjoyed this week's episode.

    I'd agree with you, rousing speeches are one thing, but there has definitely been an increase in over-sentimental ramblings this year


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    #1678
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Ok, so I had a look at the latest episode & yeah, it was actually kinda funny in places; definitely of a higher standard than when I dropped the series. I'd be interested in seeing more episodes penned by Jim Rash. Not sure I'd keep watching on the basis of one episode, but it's good to see that all is not lost just yet.

    Chevy Chase's absence is really obvious at this stage though; the script didn't even try to pretend that they were writing him out of the show.


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    #1679
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,451 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    For a Few Paintballs More was just on Sony TV.

    *sigh*

    I miss funny Community.


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    #1680
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Inspector Spacetime T-shirt on Teebusters for the next 2 days (well, just under)..

    184801dc6fb9d8df6b0c67fa369512b8InspectorSpacetime_ZoomImage.png


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    #1681
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,451 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I like Community, but not that much. :)


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