Community S2

being indie as fukk and voting aerodynamics of gender -- i'll never love anything more than the trampoline plot

conspiracies, and theories thereof

i have faith that ilx will not pick either of the last two.

damn, i had forgotten how much i enjoyed "accounting for lawyers," with the chloroform, drew carey's creepy hole in the hand, etc.

Christmas just over AD&D

Conspiracy Theories for sure.

where is the "all of the above" option

conspiracies.

since there isn't a "there was sliced bread and then there was Community Season 2" option, I might vote for "intermediate documentary filmmaking" - Jeff's meltdown really got to me, and Troy's was non-stop lollage

celeb pharmacology was funny

I need to rewatch tbh

looking over the plot descriptions...I can't believe this all happened in one TV season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_%28season_2%29

Oh yeah, Conspiracy Theories and Intermediate Documentary were great too. Da croupier OTM.

coop calligraphy for me but there's a ton i could've voted for. would probably agree parks had the more consistent season but community's peaks this season i'd put up against any sitcom ever. community: mantle :: parks : aaron.

maybe i missed some good ones, but chose dungeons and dragons episode. balls otm

messianic myths and intro to political science the weakest ones for me.

between ad&d and critical film studies (my dinner with abed) for me

abed in full andre gregory mode is maybe maybe my peak moment. also want to give a shoutout to paradigms of human memory here. and thanks to nbc putting this and parks together at 8 next year, which really will make my tv watching much more efficient that night.

seems unfair to compare community and parks and rec for season long consistency, given parks and rec had a half-length season. i voted for the christmas episode btw.

counting tomorrow, Parks and Rec had 16 episodes, which is still pretty substantial considering they all contained considerable lols. (Then again I'm one of the few who thinks Community S1 > S2.)

Either AD&D, Critical Film Studies, or the clip show.

Jeff/pierce melt-down was good, too.

i also fall in the S1 > S2 category. it's cheesy to say, but i didn't like how much they all fought this season. it left less time for just crackin' wise around the study table.

S2 was largely absurd in all respects, but I don't favor either season over the other.

my top 10, by the Friends-style titles i refer to them by in my head:

1. The One With The Space Flight Simulator (Basic Rocket Science)
2. The One With The My Dinner With Andre Homage (Critical Film Studies)
3. The One With The Hole In Drew Carey's Hand (Accounting for Lawyers)
4. The One With The Claymation Christmas (Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas)
5. The One With Kevin Corrigan Teaching Night School (Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design)
6. The One WIth Stephen Tobolowsky (Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking)
7. The One With Troy's Birthday At The Bar (Mixology Certification)
8. The one With Pierce Playing Drugs (Celebrity Pharmacology)
9. The One With The Trampoline (Aerodynamics of Gender)
10. The One With Mockumentary-Style Camera Work (Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking)

i'm sure that order will change once it comes out on DVD and i can watch it all again, though. this might be sacrilege but Basic Rocket Science is the one this season that made me lose my shit on first airing almost as much as the o.g. paintball episode.

those are 10 fantastic episodes

really the only downpoint I had last week in MN hanging out with jjj and FB was discovering that they didn't "get" Community

i'd go 'my dinner with abed'

think it's a crazy uneven show

Conspiracy theories, but there's loads vying for second place. I have a soft spot for the one where Jeff and Duncan try and watch the football, but I'm not sure I'd vote for it.

Having never seen My Dinner With Andre probably hampered my enjoyment of that episode a bit. The first couple in the series are probably the worst (although still a fun way to spend 20mins).

I have a soft spot for the one where Jeff and Duncan try and watch the football, but I'm not sure I'd vote for it.

I am tempted to pick that one solely for the introduction of Magnitude.

^^yes! though i could probably go with anyone of these. except the one where pierce was in the hospital, didn't get that one at all.

otm

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I don't think any of these quite match the sheer manic ridiculousness of the conspiracy thriller ep though, especially the chase through the blanket fort.

Latvian Independence Day Parade!

I went with Calligraphy, but could easily have gone with about nine others. Something about that episode felt like the show turned another decisive corner.

"Aerodynamics of Gender" was really amazing, in many many ways, and contains my favorite Annie line of the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyoj09hWec

6. The One WIth Stephen Tobolowsky (Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking)

^ i messed this up btw, should be Competitive Wine Tasting

which one was the fake-clip clip-show ep??? i voted for Dungeons & Dragons, but should have voted for whichever that one was. i have spoiled my ballot :s

The pile-up of Dean Pelton "hi dere!" moments in that ep is just amazing.

Winger's speech at the end was the high point for me.

clip shaux was "Paradigms of Human Memory"

This season can't come out on DVD fast enough

^^ Looking forward to the commentaries. The ones on S1 DVD are never less than hilarious and/or fascinating.

It's really hard to pick just one, but I have to go with Critical Film Studies. Danny Pudi is amazing.

We’ve known each other for almost two years now. And yeah, in that time I’ve given a lot of speeches. But they all have one thing in common. They’re all different. These drug runners aren’t going to execute Pierce because he’s racist. It’s a locomotive that runs on us. And the only sharks in that water, are the emotional ghosts that I like to call fear, anchovies, fear and the dangers of ingesting mercury. Because the real bugs aren’t the ones in those beds. There’s no such thing as a free Caesar salad, and even if there were, The Cape still might find a second life on cable. And I’ll tell you why (the heart of the water is truth), that water is a lie! Harrison Ford is radiating our testicles with microwave satellite transmission! So maybe we are caught in an endless cycle of screw-ups and feelings, but I choose to believe it’s just the universe’s way of molding us into some kind of super group.

Made my choice. Immediately regretting it.

clip shaux

back on the brain 'roids?

This season can't come out on DVD fast enough

agreed, looking forward to marathonning

"Made my choice. Immediately regretting it."

yup. what some people call inconsistency, i call a lot of different kinds of great in one show. hard to pick a single episode that exemplifies everything i've enjoyed about the show this season.

Only started watching Community from the beginning a few weeks ago, couldn't get enough and watched about 3 per night til the finale. <3 it so much and yet, can't decide on the best ep. Hole in the hand was maybe the best gag ever, although Pierce shouting "I'm the best!!" in part 1 of the paintball finale had me lolling for ages for some reason.

BTW why did none of you fuckers tell me that Donald Glover was doing a live tour? How will he become my boyfriend if I can't stalk him efficiently?

Tempted to vote for Intro to Political Science just for Pierce's "psst... Vicki. psst... Look at me. I'm going to crush you." debate speech.

Can't possibly decide, too much greatness this season

my top ten which is lame cuz its like half of them but fuck it:

paradigms of human memory
advanced d&d
basic rocket science
intro to political science
early 21st century romanticism
aerodynamics of gender
critical film studies
accounting for lawyers
fistfull of paintballs
conspiracy theories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MgNcE8mRM0

clearly tv's finest moment

close number 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJes8AXHqwY

"It's going to be a maze."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7eSpn9jC4

My favourite line in the series: "You, in the boobs."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i regret not putting Messianic Myths in my top 10 itt, i keep misremembering it as a season 1 episode

missed this thread first time around, but "i won dungeons and dragons. AND it WAS ADVANCED!"

my top ten:
1. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
2. Cooperative Calligraphy
3. Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design
4. Critical Film Studies
5. A Fistful of Paintballs
6. Mixology Certification
7. Critical Film Studies
8. Competitive Wine Tasting
9. Epidemiology
10. Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas
11. Aerodynamics of Gender

All great tho...

Woah, listed Critical Film Studies twice. Second one should be "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking."

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

surprisingly good showing for basic rocket science imo

no votes for intermediate doc or epidemiology or either paintball ep!

rewatched the paintball eps w/ friends earlier today, they're lotsa fun but simply not remotely in contention for best here

kinda surprised by the winner, should watch the D&D one again because i have barely any memory of it good or bad. really thought Christmas would be the one to beat.

Paradigms of Human Memory 2

hi5 who ever else voted 4 thisss

coop calligy is really a p weak episode imo but otherwise p solid showing

what, the bottle episode? that one was awesome!

Yeah I was thinking Lamp was kind of loco for not putting that ep in his top ten

ya bottle > clips

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2737/5775798133_482cd9fb66.jpg

^^^ This actually happened. In the real world.

i totally forgot about Cooperative Calligraphy or that it was the bottle episode, yeah that was a good one

no votes for intermediate doc or epidemiology or either paintball ep!

guess i forgot to vote!

ya bottle > clips

enh thats like saying emotions > jokes

total false binary

it's like saying nudity > sex

well yeah but also just a misleading and reductive way to describe those 2 episodes

it's like saying shoes > chewing tobacco

regret not voting 'paradigms' because it is definitely in my top two and deserves higher ranking

think it had the least emotions of the whole series?

well it def had the most jokes

honestly coop calligy was just blah blah stuck in a room lol monkey it was boring but cool if you like, keep having opinions

and somehow you keep having them

SMH for Emmy voters right now.

no shit

Magnitude wuz robbed

pop.. pop.. *sniff* :(

I got so excited when I was channelsurfing this weekend and saw Magnitude in one of the Harry Potter movies.

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201108/alison-brie-gillian-jacobs-community-gq-lesbian-photo

If you're into that sort of thing.

no shirley? cop out

The Paramount studio tour I took led us all over the set... of this show I've never seen.

my Paramount studio tour went all over the set on Tuesday. Have never seen the show.

― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 July 2011 20:00 (6 days ago)

can't wait for the Community S3 thread

D&D episode is good and all but i don't really see how it could the best of these unless you're a D&D nerd

I didn't know shit about D&D (apart from the fact that their are crazy-sided dice), and I loved that episode. And anyway, D&D is just the delivery system.

xp i was a D&D nerd!

oh i agree that the episode is successful in not requiring knowledge of D&D to be funny. i just don't see at all how it's the best so i wonder if there were just 9 D&D fans itt who were excited about being catered to.

you don't need to know fuck all about d&d to enjoy it, but it's a cute episode that is a welcomed deviation, rather than an amazing and key episode ... IIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOO

Just watched Cooperative Caligraphy... Incredible.

speaking of the D&D ep, Fat Neil shows up as one of the ambulance drivers in the new Slim Jim commercials

Clearly the obvious successor to Macho Man Randy Savage's throne.

yup, another heart attack waiting to happen ;_;

maybe Fat Neil's nemesis in a future episode will be a skinny guy named Slim Jim