Dan Harmon's narration to close out the series at the end here gets me every time. It's funny, sweet & a little sad all at the same time.
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ChaserNeverRests3 days ago
+58
5 Meow Meow Beenz for this comment.
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dremscrep3 days ago
+16
The little Chuck Lorre endcard reference was also cool
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curiousbydesign3 days ago
+3
Now I need to rewatch. Thanks! Modern Family get me too. The last part is something my mom did for me. And now I do it for my home.
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Geronimobius3 days ago
+131
You stupid child...
Actually, on S6E7 of my latest rewatch
Whats the latest on the movie? Last I know it got stuck because of a recent writers strike?
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ArchDucky3 days ago
+92
It was delayed again because Donald had a stroke. They also have a lot of trouble locking Joel down because hes doing a lot of stuff. Hes actually the hardest to schedule because they refuse to block shoot the film. Much better for everyone if everyone is on set improvising.
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TheCooze3 days ago
+38
Very surprised to see Joel in scream 7. Not a great movie but happy to see him getting solid work.
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KneeHighMischief3 days ago
+21
I haven't seen the most recent season yet but that's how I'd characterize *Animal Control*: solid. I think the show really suffered from having a different length season every year & none of them being particularly long.
I think it can be a massive benefit for a sitcom to have a nice long first season to get a rhythm & work out the kinks.
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SeanCrevalle3 days ago
+3
I love animal control.
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halborn3 days ago
-4
Why? I watched a few episodes and it seemed like a nothing-burger.
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jl_theprofessor2 days ago
+1
It gets better season by season. I was in love by season 3.
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halborn2 days ago
-5
C'mon dude, give me something here.
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thievesthick2 days ago
+3
Personally I just dig the cast. It’s on the smaller side and I didn’t recognize anyone outside Joel and the dude from Upload, but they’re all funny. I like finding new funny people. The fake looking and acting animals crack me up, too.
It’s just kind of a no-pressure show that feels like hanging out with a fun group of people for 20 minutes.
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Pure_Incident28072 days ago
+2
Joel McHale is all you need
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shinyhpno3 days ago
+25
What? A stroke at his age?
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ScyllaOfTheDepths3 days ago
+30
It can happen at any age. Aubrey Plaza had one at 20.
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Kalse12293 days ago
+6
Didn't Emilia Clarke have one too at a young age?
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bros4023 days ago
+12
She had an aneurysm
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Kalse12293 days ago
+2
Ah. Still pretty bad.
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bros4023 days ago
+2
Yeah
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TalkinTrek3 days ago
+3
Yeah, he addressed it recently.
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Shockrates20xx3 days ago
+7
Good call. Look how terrible Netflix Arrested Development was.
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valar123 days ago
+3
I saw him two shows before the stroke. The man put it down into the show. Absolutely riveting.
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ScyllaOfTheDepths3 days ago
+17
Writer's strike, then Donald Glover and Joel McHale were stuck in contracts for shows and couldn't get time away for filming the movie, then Donald had a stroke and is still recovering. I think it's never happening and, if it does, it'll have to be filmed very tediously with careful shots because all the actors won't be able to be on set at the same time.
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KneeHighMischief3 days ago
+13
I'm okay without the movie at this point. Recapturing that kind of magic isn't easy & I think it only gets harder over time.
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bocboda3 days ago
+10
I mostly just want it to fulfill the #sixseasonsandamovie prophecy
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ChaserNeverRests3 days ago
+3
We're close! I'm on my second rewatch (in a row, not ever) and tonight is S6E1. I'll probably watch it a third time, because it's a nearly perfect "last show before bed" kind of show.
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ArchDucky3 days ago
+111
At the Yahoo party all of the executives were told not to tell Dan Harmon that so many people tried to watch episode one it crashed their servers. One of the executives got drunk and let it slip. Well over ten million different users tried to access the show at the same time. Much larger than the viewer base the Nielsen Ratings company had been reporting. This was a very well watched and loved show that was on the verge of cancellation every week because of that antiquated notebook system used for TV Ratings. All of the BTS shit happened and NBC decided to favor the bankable star over the creative force because they didn't realise so many people were watching it either. If we had a better ratings system this would have gotten a much better run than it did.
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FrankPapageorgio3 days ago
+45
> Well over ten million different users tried to access the show at the same time.
I doubt that... if it was true, Yahoo would have been shouting about record viewership for their new streaming venture.
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ScyllaOfTheDepths3 days ago
+34
Yahoo Screen sucked ass. The site was literally unusable. It would cut to commercial and then start playing a different episode afterwards and then the site would just crash if you tried to rewind or scrub. I have no doubt Yahoo was just run by idiots who didn't know what they were doing.
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FrankPapageorgio3 days ago
+15
It was more likely 1M viewers making 10 attempts each at watching the show
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ScyllaOfTheDepths3 days ago
+6
They were literally an ISP. They should have planned for that.
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ForGlory992 days ago
+2
Yahoo was an Internet Service Provider, like spectrum, comcast, centurylink? What?
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ScyllaOfTheDepths2 days ago
+7
Not currently, but they operated as such in the past and during the time frame Community was on Yahoo Screen and they offered a lot of b2b web infrastructure services. They absolutely should have known how to make a better product than what they made.
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KnotSoSalty2 days ago
+6
I remember Community being the first show I ever binged on a streamer. I think it was Hulu. An absolute banger.
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Mattyzooks2 days ago
+2
I had some glitch where after the first episode, I never got commercials.
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occono3 days ago
+3
I think international views would help account for it as Yahoo probably had a flimsy geo lock that could be bypassed.
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rose_roser3 days ago
+26
Oh, Britta's in this?
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dyingdreams3 days ago
+54
For anyone who is unaware or forgot, this is the scene the series ends on.
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ObviousAnswerGuy2 days ago
The 6th season was decent. Better than the 4th season.
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ColMarcSlayton3 days ago
+45
So good! Such a rewatch able show.
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KneeHighMischief3 days ago
+2
Been forever since I've watched the gas leak season. Every time I do a rewatch I don't plan on skipping it but once I get to it I just move on to Season 5.
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TalkinTrek3 days ago
+1
I am curious how Harmon would have handled Troy/Britta (given it is set up in S3 but dead by the end of S4)
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yogurtfuck3 days ago
+15
I mean, c'mon Dan Harmon, some of us have work in the morning DAMN.
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jl_theprofessor2 days ago
+4
This is a hell of a way to end your show.
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johnaimarre3 days ago
+11
One of the best series finales. Also, season 6 is brilliant overall.
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DangerousPath14202 days ago
+7
It’s no Pile of Bullets
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bonobro692 days ago
+4
Bang! 5!
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cold_asspillow2 days ago
+2
Contains pieces the size of a child’s esophagus
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not_the_droids3 days ago
-17
I love Community, but I think out of all the endings the show had due to it possibly getting cancelled, this one is by far the weakest.
To me it feels like season 6 gets worse with every re-watch and this ending leaves me feeling nothing.
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Eca283 days ago
+17
Season 4's ending is worse. I die a little when Abed says "we finally found a way to make paintball cool again." It's like the writers were giving each other high fives for their brilliant idea of copying Harmon's homework.
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Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work3 days ago
+3
Gas leaks man
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Willbury233 days ago
+7
Shut up, Leonard!
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bautin3 days ago
-65
This is a microcosm of why the show, and by extension Dan Harmon, isn't as good as everyone says. It's deliberately meta and calls out its own meta nature as if that either absolves it or serves as a commentary on the show or gag.
You see the same thing in Rick and Morty. It thinks it's so clever for having the characters point out its a show.
There's no real point to it. It's effectively a Family Guy style cutaway gag. Someone said, "wouldn't it be funny if..." and just ran with it.
And they're both fine shows, Community and Rick and Morty, but hardly the peak of comedy sitcoms and not quite as intelligent as people say.
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SketchyFella_3 days ago
+17
But "bread" is a substance, what do you call your units of bread? "Breads"?
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Rmtcts3 days ago
+27
Why would being meta need absolving?
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halborn3 days ago
-4
Because if you don't at least do it obliquely then you're violating a principle of fiction.
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bautin3 days ago
-19
It does try to apologize for itself for being a bit absurdist during the legalese voice over.
They wanted to do this, but realized it's just a sketch, that it's unconnected to the show, so they put a disclaimer to hang a lampshade on it. Cool, but you still did the thing.
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j01101111sh3 days ago
+12
But the whole last episode is like that. they're literally pitching "season 7" for the whole episode. It fits right in with that.
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halborn3 days ago
-7
That's the characters talking about their lives as if their lives are a TV show, not acknowledging that they actually are.
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j01101111sh3 days ago
+4
Sure but they call it season 7 which is a meta reference and the entire point of them talking about their lives is to illustrate that the show has reached a natural stopping point. The entire episode is using the characters in this meta context so it's not completely detached to have the commercial doing the same thing.
ETA listen, I'm not trying to felate Harmon. I do think he's overrated by some but this episode is very well done, IMO
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halborn3 days ago
-5
What detaches it is the fundamental difference I just pointed out.
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Gdaddyoverlord3 days ago
+19
This is the worst example you could've used given this is one of the most clever examples of being meta in either shows. You made yourself look incredibly wrong
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bautin3 days ago
-13
How is it clever? It's humorous. But it's literally an ouroboros of fourth wall breaking. It acknowledges the show as a show, then itself as a commercial.
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halborn3 days ago
-3
Nah. If you want to be clever about being meta then you have to do it in a way that makes sense in the context of the fiction. I like this scene but analytically it's literally just Harmon talking about a show he created.
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SmellyMammoth3 days ago
+7
Opinions are like armpits
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cows11003 days ago
-3
I don’t think of it this negatively, but this scene made me go “Yup, this was written by Dan Harmon.” It’s just so “him” that it took me out of it completely. Not a bad idea, probably just needed to be edited by any other voice before the final script.
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Embaralhador3 days ago
+6
Of course it's so "him". It's the last scene of the show and a farewell from the creator.
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cows11003 days ago
-2
I get it. Maybe for me there’s just a line for “a bit too much Harmon” that other people don’t have. All in all, I liked it. It just took me out of it for a second.
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