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Community season 5

I would love to play D&D with Abed. Also, he has a tiny tushy! lol

This one wasn't as epic as the first D&D episode, but it was still really fun. The game was meant to be rigged so that Hickey and his son would end up together at the end, but it was funny how that ended up happening anyway, even though Hickey's son (I can't remember his name but David Cross, okay :rwmad: ) messed the plan up.

People are complaining about the episode because the stakes weren't as high as when Fat Neil was going to kill himself. Well, you can't have every game based on someone's potential suicide. This was less about the game than it was about Hickey and his son.

Dean Pelton was really good AS USUAL.
 
It felt like they just wanted to do another Dungeons and Dragons episode but didn't really have much of a story for one? Because there wasn't much to the story here. It didn't really seem to resolve, they just said "this is getting boring now, let's end it" and then Jeff did half a speech and it was over. I don't really find the D&D stuff funny, I guess? Once they go into all the "Thing of Thing uses the Thing to Thing the Thing!" talking it just loses me. The Dean was funny and also Annie spraying, but I didn't laugh much.
 
Yeah, I feel like this was a kind of masturbatory exercise, and an excuse to use Banks more, as well as the fast-talking skills of everyone else. I was entertained and impressed and all, but it wasn't fall-down funny.
 
Apparently Dan Harmon said in some interview that they were working on the script for this one right up till the last minute.
 
I'm into it.
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I didn't think much of this week's one. I loled a few times (when Shirley died and Abed pulled a face, when Abed played the orcs or whatevs and pulled some faces, the bits with Dean Pelton's face), but it was kind of hard to keep track of what was going on and I wasn't sure I really cared whether Banks made up with his son. I'm not keen on how closely they've tried to make him like Pierce but without the bigotry. A wasted opportunity with David Cross as well, I thought.
 
Gillian Jacobs was a guest judge on this week's RuPaul's Drag Race. She is a self-described superfan of the the show, and was quite funny if a little low-key (RuPaul is an imposing presence, lol).

Lena Headey was a guest judge last week as well. (Not Community-related but splitting these MF tidbits in separate threads lessens the impact that RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE IS DA BOMB AND WE SHOULD ALL BE WATCHING AND KI-KI-ING ABOUT IT TOGETHER JUST LIKE BRITTA.
 
It airs here on Monday nights, and the "acquirable files" usually show up at sites the next day.

There's a long version, which contains the hour show plus the 30 minute "Untucked" companion show all in one file, and then someone else uploads the 2 shows separately a little later. It's all there now.

This week's (Gillian) is S06E05 "Snatch Game", and last week's (Lena) was S06E04 "Shade: The Rusical".
 
PaleyFest: Dan Harmon & ‘Community’ Cast Talk Season 6, Chevy Chase And A Potential Streaming Future
By ANTHONY D'ALESSANDRO | Wednesday March 26, 2014 @ 9:57pm PDT

Dan Harmon Community PalyeFestCommunity creator and exec producer Dan Harmon told Deadline tonight at the PaleyFest that there’s still no word about a sixth-season order from NBC, but it’s conceivable the cult comedy could have a future via new VOD models such as Netflix and Hulu should the Peacock not include it as part of its 2014-2015 season.

“I think that we’re old reliable, like a Tupperware in the fridge,” Harmon said about NBC’s silence about a renewal. “We’ll find out when the network is the hungriest.” Harmon said he’s heard “whispers from dark corners” about the possibility of Community being resurrected through a streaming format, should NBC completely deep-six the comedy series.

The creator gives props to Sony, the studio that fired him after Season 3 then brought him back for Season 5, for recognizing the cult appeal of Community should this occur: “No one is better than Sony when it comes to recognizing a property. If they have something that’s worth anything, that has an opportunity to recoup and profit, it’s Sony.”
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He added: “There seems like there’s a space where we could do something; one can go to Hulu or Netflix. It’s a new business model. Should Community continue on a streaming platform, well, that’s an adjustment Harmon will need to make. “Whether [streaming] is the best for Community, I don’t know. It’s a network sitcom. It’s like, ‘Let’s take this sonnet that didn’t work for everyone and turn it into a limerick,” he said.

During the panel, actress Gillian Jacobs (Britta Perry) wore rosy glasses about a potential Season 6 order, exclaiming, “C’mon, it’s happening!” That triggered great cheers in the Dolby Theatre. Harmon, meanwhile, touted the stat that Community beats CBS’ The Big Bang Theory in Live+3 every week. As to whether a Season 6 would include Chevy Chase — still unlikely. In several interviews, Harmon has stated it would take a special situation for Chase, who had creative differences with the show, to come back to the series. The creator defined exactly what that means: “When I say special situation, I mean it’s none of my business. I wasn’t around when he parted with the studios. I’ve heard there were contractual disagreements.” But as a comedian, and creative partner, Harmon has nothing but adoration for Chase, who played ex-tycoon Pierce Hawthorne. “I love Chevy. I think he loves me. I don’t think he’s capable of expressing love in a way that satisfies most people, but we text each other dirty jokes and call each other assholes on a regular basis. I would love to work with him again; he’s a constant singularity of humanity.”

In regards to the Season 5 finale, Harmon said he didn’t shoot it like a series ender. “I’ve always struck a balance between series and season finale, but this year, it would be especially unsatisfying for the fans if the Season 5 finale is the end. It doesn’t end with anyone saying, ‘And we all lived happily ever after.’ ”

During the panel, Harmon and executive producer Chris McKenna attributed their reunion this season to the show’s star Joel McHale (Jeff Winger). “As in all these complications, the mediator is always Joel McHale,” said McKenna. “I started getting phone calls from Joel and agents. I texted Dan and said we should talk. So we met at the Formosa Bar.” Cracked Harmon: “I said, ‘Let’s do this as long as Donald Glover is on board’. Then these contracts were lowered from the sky for us to sign, like strings from a UFO, and then we realized Donald Glover was flying away.” Glover, who played Troy Barnes, departed the show after five episodes this season.

Also during the panel, Harmon credited McKenna for grounding the series: “The show wouldn’t exist without him. During the first nine episodes of the show, I was running the show in this Howard Hughes-ian fashion. Chris came on board and liked it. He was a guy who I could trust and who would call me at 9 PM to tell me that he had concerns that the sound mixing was affecting a joke. Chris McKenna – he sides with psychos!”

Toward the end of the evening, a teaser for an upcoming Community animated episode — a parody of ’80s cartoon G.I. Joe – drew applause from the crowd. Also on the PaleyFest panel tonight were castmembers Jim Rash (Dean Pelton), Danny Pudi (Abed Nadir), and Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley Bennett).
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I never watched GI Joe (it was called ACTION FORCE over here...and I don't think they ever showed the cartoon anyway) but I still understood things! I liked it.
 
They should have done Thundercats or Masters of the Universe. Dean Pelton could have been Skeletor or SOMETHIGN.
 
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