Community Season 3 thread

Reggie · Post by **Reggie** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:51 am

At first I was kind of turned off by the obvious gimmick, but I think the episode was handled really well. Great way to advance several converging story lines in one shot.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:21 am

loved this episode. like everyone said it was a perfect community episode. loved everyone falling into their roles, the story lines kind of moving forward and brita's bewbs continued on their emmy winning pace.

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:15 am

Amazing episode.

Zeed Stun · Post by **Zeed Stun** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:21 am

^jacked for sig

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:01 pm

"Yahtzee or as everyone knows it Puerto Rican Chess"

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:33 pm

great ep. The reality where the place got on fire was great.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:41 pm

"Rule #1: Be a Man" - Whoops move this to Parks and Rec thread.

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:05 pm

......

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:06 pm

bbatson1 wrote:I wonder if they got the head hitting the fan from that internet video that's been so popular lately of the girl hitting her head on the fan when she's up on that balcony.

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Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:37 pm

I was wondering which timeline was the 'actual' prime since the one which was supposedly prime(not rolling the dice, the group dancing at the end) had Pierce not tell his Ertha Kit story which he said he only told the group in the previous episode. Here's alittle tumblr dealing with the 'real' timeline

Last nightגs Community featured seven different timelines based on the roll of a die. They led you to believe that the final timeline was the real one, but I donגt believe this to be true. Hereגs why.

1. The episode begins with a brief argument about whether Troy and Abed live in apartment 303 or 304. This episode was season three, episode four. What this hints at is that this episode takes place before the last one.
2. In every timeline except Jeffגs (supposedly the real one), Pierce mentions that he had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom. He tells Omar in 303 that the members of the study group are the only ones heגs told about that event.
3. Abedגs timeline is the only one in which Shirley finds out that Britta smokes pot. In 303, when Britta burns the list, Shirley says, גoh no! Sheגs got her marijuana lighter!ג

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:17 pm

^that's crazy. I wouldn't have ever caught that. So I assume, if the lighter comment holds weight, Abed's timeling is correct.

.....just rewatched that timeline. Nothing much happens that's to crazy so that's probably it. Thatl's great writing.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:22 pm

bbatson1 wrote:^that's crazy. I wouldn't have ever caught that. So I assume, if the lighter comment holds weight, Abed's timeling is correct.

.....just rewatched that timeline. Nothing much happens that's to crazy so that's probably it. Thatl's great writing.

His timeline was the one where everyone ended up pretty mad at each other in the end correct? Abed couldn't read the room cus he thought that was the best timeline since he found a nickel in the hallway.

bbatson1 · Post by **bbatson1** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:31 pm

^Britta gets high and eats the pie, but tells that nobody was supposed to eat them. Troy tells Chevy that he looks up to him and appreciated living with him, but then Chevy won't give the troll thing so he pulls the box and the troll pops out. Troy screams I hate you. Annie and Jeff kiss in the kitchen, Annie says when Jeff said he cared about her it reminded her of her dad and says lay off the bubble gum lip gloss. Abed walks in and eats pizza..

so yeah that must be it.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:54 pm

crazy we'll see how it plays out next week.

I just remembered two of my favorite lines from last nights ep

"Clearly you don't understand a thing about defeating trolls"

"Banned in Serbia, let that concept sink in."

I also want to see a return of evil Troy and evil AAAAAAbed.

Reggie · Post by **Reggie** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:11 pm

I feel retarded because I needlessly thought the first shown timeline, where Annie goes downstairs, was the real one.

Even iller than I presumed.

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 10:04 pm

bbatson1 wrote:great ep. The reality where the place got on fire was great.

reminded me of a combination of the banderas scene with the taratino/roald dahl short story cutting finger off scene

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:03 am

Reggie wrote:I feel retarded because I needlessly thought the first shown timeline, where Annie goes downstairs, was the real one.

went the other way with it and immediately realized jeffs die roll wouldn't get back to him, so when the group figures that out and sends him to go down to get the pizza, that will have to be the real timeline. this timeline talk has me feeling like i'm in a LOST thread.

Brougham33 wrote:

brittas still getting the biggest laugh out of every ep.
nearly died at this the first time, was dead the second time through

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:32 am

Yeah, Britta's currently the funniest. Abed kind of exists at this point mostly to justify gimmick episodes. Jeff is less likable than ever, and Annie isn't getting much material to work with.

Chase's shtick is wearing thin. They need to kill him off in spectacular fashion.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:11 am

Dan Harmon clears everything up about the timeline.

Fine, weגre geniuses but not EVIL geniuses.

(this is a post for Community fans, clarifying an odd rumor about a recent episode. No need to read more if youגre not absurdly obsessed with our show).

I have been trying not to read reviews, and especially the discussions under them, this season, as I have become emotionally fused with our TV show in a way that makes it hurt every time someone says itגs not perfect. However, there was so much discussion about this weekגs episode that I have seen a few reviews, now, courtesy of provocatively captioned links sent to my twitter, etc.

There is this one particular pet theory circulating that, as a populist TV producer, I canגt allow to be out there without being on record firmly denying. To tell you the truth, Iגm not sure I fully understand the theory itself, but I know itגs not true at a glance, because it has something to do with the episode גCompetitive Ecologyג being aired out of order on purpose because it was actually גfrom the timeline in which Abed gets the pizza in Remedial Chaos Theory.ג

Itגs just not true. I am really sorry that the air-order-swap has sent a false signal of hidden complexity. I have been meaning to explain the very unmysterious reason for the air order swap when I had time, in keeping with a promise I made you guys long ago.

The production code of גRemedial Chaos Theoryג is 303, because it was the third episode to be written and shot. We intended to air it third. Troy and Abedגs apartment is 303 because, hey, we needed an apartment number, so we gave it the production codeגs number.

As you MIGHT imagine, 303 was a bit of a challenge to write, shoot and edit. And as you might imagine, the episode entitled גCompetitive Ecologyג was relatively easy to write, shoot and edit. Relative to 303, anyway.

At a certain point, with 303גs delivery deadline looming, I panicked. I felt that the episode was nowhere near complete. Chris McKenna had invested so much into the episode, and we were about to lock picture on something that was not delivering on this script that had nearly given him a stroke. And an early directorגs cut of Competitive Ecology came in, and I looked at it, and it was working great. It was six hours from being broadcastable, and Chaos Theory needed an amount of TLC in the edit bay that I couldnגt even estimate. I just knew we had to sit there and work on it. A lot.

So I ordered the swap. Not NBC. I talked them into it. We considered things like the Eartha Kitt contradiction, which some execs recommended pulling from 304, but I thought, perhaps erroneously, that it would feel like a גset upג for the fact that Pierce is constantly bringing it up. We considered the גmarijuana lighterג concept, and I decided that, you know what? Shirley just already knew that Britta was a stoner, how could she not.

One thing I did not consider was that fans starving for our weirdness were going to get back-to-back גnormal episodesג with Chang-as-cop B stories, and that, in a season in which backlash is basically unavoidable, we were going to leap headlong into it, because everyone was going to start making decisions, as of the third episode, about how the season was going, etc.

It aired out of order because it was a bitch to edit. Iגm sorry itגs not more complicated than that, but Iגm sure glad the explanation isnגt more sinister. The גrealג timeline - that is to say, the one which the NBC TV show Community will continue to track - is the timeline you see mapped at the center in those awesome transitions created by Channel 101גs Duncan Brothers. That center, or גprimeג timeline, is the one in which Abed catches the die, exposes Jeff as a selfish hooligan and the group sends him down for the pizza. That is the גrealג timeline. And when we were not in it, I did everything I could to make it clear. As much fun as we want to have, we never want to confuse you or lie to you. We just donגt consider that a right that we have. I hated that stupid גThe Killingג show on AMC after the first five minutes; donגt show me someone discovering a body but then reveal that the camera was somewhere else and it was a pig. Thatגs dumb. Thatגs not storytelling, thatגs a parlor trick and an abuse of power. That kind of shit was cool in the third act of Silence of the Lambs, when she was ringing the doorbell and the SWAT team was ringing a doorbell and you suddenly realized that the SWAT team was at the wrong house and Starling wasnגt. The גdeceptionג in that moment was the POINT of that moment in Silence of the Lambs. Starling had wandered from her flock, straight into the wolfגs den, and WE were the only ones that knew it. That was a [very brief] lie the camera engaged in to EMPOWER the audience and make the story more riveting. Wow. What a tangent. Anyway.

Is timeline 1 real? Is Evil Abed out there?

Those are really, really good questions that I think only a really, really good show would answer. Enjoy.

They are airing a rerun next thursday. But the week after that is Halloween.

Itגs a fun one.

Your praise of Remedial Chaos Theory has got me feeling really good. I have some pretty interesting stuff I could show you when I get a chance. Thereגs photos of the whiteboard in the room where McKenna was breaking this story. And thereגs a text message conversation from last season between me and Megan גMarie Claireג Ganz in which you can see the seed for Remedial Chaos Theory get planted and then sprout. Well, it fascinates me, anyway. What else do I have to be fascinated by.
I love you guys for loving that episode. Talk to you soon.

http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/114691 ... l-geniuses

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:59 pm

the anti-lindelof

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:14 pm

Liked Harmon's little jab at that indian cunt and the killing

even with all that said there's something else to it

http://tvrecaps.ew.com/recap/community- ... timelines/

entertainment weekly thought like reggie annie's timeline was the 'prime' timeline.

plus i think we see sometype of call back later in the season(halloween? Evil Troy and Evil AAAbed?)

Gregg Popabitch · Post by **Gregg Popabitch** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:41 pm

Britta has definitely been the MVP of this season.

Abed has always been the narrator/conscience of the show. In fact, he's the only one that realizes that he's in a TV show (stole this from Sepinwall).

I would've thought that Thun would love Jeff.

SYM · Post by **SYM** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:04 pm

boy am i glad for dvr. between starting the episode, laughing my ass off harder than i've ever laughed before during the troy timeline, and then reading this thread for commentary, i'm really pleased with the direction this season is taking. i am in love with britta.

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:28 am

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Reason · Post by **Reason** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:56 am

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yea i just kept staring at troy's timeline. b/w the gunshot and the chaos that ensues, it still overshadowed the rest lol

Reggie · Post by **Reggie** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:42 am

Okay, if Dan Harmon says the timeline where Jeff gets the pizza is the real one, then there's no reason not to believe him. However, it's odd that it's the only one of the seven where Pierce doesn't mention that he slept with Eartha Kitt, despite getting a prime setup when Troy says that Jeff sucks harder than an airplane bathroom.

Of course, him not mentioning his inclusion within the Mile High club at that point was the joke, but it does nothing for my obsessive nerdish need for continuity.

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:15 am

weakest of the halloween eps by a long shot and kinda too structurally similar to the last ep (though i guess the last ep was supposed to air third, but that's whatevs, this one was just lacking in lolz). but britta continues her streak

Ramen · Post by **Ramen** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:36 am

thought it was pretty lulz, but I agree too much like the last episode.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:55 am

it had moments but was kind of ehh. and i thought the personality test reveal at the end was kinda of lame.

Gregg Popabitch · Post by **Gregg Popabitch** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 10:13 am

yeah, i would've been much happier if they didn't reveal it and we had to guess throughout the season.