Community 2-39-12 - Digital Exploration of Interior Design

[RealityChuck]

So, what what Britta doing to Subway?

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[enalzi]

"I was just Googling record lengths of things..."

[Tangent]

Originally Posted by RealityChuck

So, what what Britta doing to Subway?

I think maybe the episode title is a clue...

[Nobody]

I didn't think this episode was that great. Pierce was great. Other than that...

The Jeff and Annie plot. We've seen Jeff learning a lesson about selflessness aided by Annie or Britta before.

Britta and Subway.

Troy and Abed. Their friendship continues to decline. I wonder if the evil Abed and Vice Dean Robert Laybourne (John Goodman) storylines will intersect.

[Carmady]

The Subway stuff kind of annoyed me, as even though they made it funny it really didn't seem like something they would have put in the episode on their own. Just a little off.

Is it better not to have the show at all than to compromise even a little bit? Would you destroy the pillow fort before letting it hook up to the blanket fort?

[Nobody]

On a serious note, I wonder if the Subway plot was planned all along, or if there was a deal struck to have an episode long Subway ad to help a show with low ratings make enough money to keep the studio execs happy.

Originally Posted by Carmady

Would you destroy the pillow fort before letting it hook up to the blanket fort?

I think a combo pillow/blanket fort would be kind of cool. You get a little variety.

[Eve]

Feh. Abed has gone from "endearingly wacky" to "seriously unpleasant."

[Paintcharge]

Best line of the night. "Britta, unfiltered."

[silenus]

I'd really like to know how they got Subway on board with this. Few companies will go for being made the Bad Guys, no matter how much product placement there is.

And I agree with Eve - Abed is seriously unlikeable.

[Acsenray]

pop .... pop ....

I love that guy.

[Sigmagirl]

I knew that man was Kim right away. And I do not ever need to see Leonard in his pajamas.

I do like seeing Pierce and Shirley together. Vice Dean Laybourne is going through some changes right now? Besides the facial hair and the braid? Hmmm.

[Acsenray]

Originally Posted by Sigmagirl

I knew that man was Kim right away. And I do not ever need to see Leonard in his pajamas.

What's the problem with pajamas? They cover everything.

[Sigmagirl]

Not his face.

"There's a situation developing in the study room! I would elaborate but I am out of breath because I walked very briskly!"

[Acsenray]

Originally Posted by Sigmagirl

Not his face.

Well, then, what do pajamas have to do with it? I've never seen him wearing a mask.

[Morbo]

The actor that played the Subway executive that listened to Britta's sex tape crushed that delivery better than anyone delivering any other lines. Utterly hilarious. "I was raised in the Bay Area, but I'm a father now..."

[Acsenray]

Dean: "I'm confused. Why can't you just get your jacket on the way out?"

[drastic_quench]

Originally Posted by Morbo

The actor that played the Subway executive that listened to Britta's sex tape crushed that delivery better than anyone delivering any other lines. Utterly hilarious. "I was raised in the Bay Area, but I'm a father now..."

Yes! Who was he? They really brought in a ringer.

I'm guessing they didn't (and didn't have to) get Subway on board for this -- especially the implied digital exploration.

[Bob Ducca]

Originally Posted by drastic_quench

Yes! Who was he? They really brought in a ringer.

I'm guessing they didn't (and didn't have to) get Subway on board for this -- especially the implied digital exploration.

That's the guy from the current run of Snapple commercials, and I've seen him in a lot of other ad spots as well. Don't know his name, but the guy's booking a ton of work the last few years.

"Subway" was the guy that played Keith Dudemeister on Scrubs.

[Tangent]

Originally Posted by drastic_quench

I'm guessing they didn't (and didn't have to) get Subway on board for this -- especially the implied digital exploration.

Yeah, I think this is just another example of Community poking fun at modern trends in television. Subway product-placement has been getting pretty overt lately. (I've posted that before, but it still amazes me how blatant it is.)

[Uncle Jocko]

Originally Posted by Sigmagirl

Vice Dean Laybourne is going through some changes right now? Besides the facial hair and the braid? Hmmm.

Hey! He's in a band! Didn't it say "Kelvin and the Zeroes" on his cap there at the end, when he was on the way to band practice? That is an awesome band name ... if you're the Vice Dean of an air-conditioning school, that is.

[Nobody]

Originally Posted by Eve

Feh. Abed has gone from "endearingly wacky" to "seriously unpleasant."

I think that's part of this season's plot line though. I think it will be resolved at the end of the season.

[Folacin]

Was there more than entitled-executive to the "would someone get my coat" bit?

[pancakes3]

Originally Posted by Folacin

Was there more than entitled-executive to the "would someone get my coat" bit?

he had a boner from listening to the foul things that britta did to subway

[Bob Ducca]

Originally Posted by Eve

Feh. Abed has gone from "endearingly wacky" to "seriously unpleasant."

Sepinwall points out that Abed's behavior seems worse than it should because they ran some episodes out of order, which ended up putting last week's and this week's episodes next to each other - heightening the Abed unpleasantness.

[Shoeless]

Originally Posted by Bob Ducca

That's the guy from the current run of Snapple commercials, and I've seen him in a lot of other ad spots as well. Don't know his name, but the guy's booking a ton of work the last few years.

I've been wondering who that guy is too. I see him on a lot of commercials and he's always vaguely reminded me of Phil Hartman. I tried to check the credits at the end but we had weather warnings scrolling across the bottom of the screen last night so I couldn't read them.

[Sampiro]

I kept expecting some comment about destroying the "Walls of Troy", especially when the two 'armies' were chest thumping at each other.

[drastic_quench]

Originally Posted by drastic_quench

Yes! Who was he? They really brought in a ringer.

Solved. James M. Connor.

[manx]

I was worried that there would be more animation - not the good, Jeff vs Shirley Foosball kind, the annoying and pointless, Jeff likes whiskey/ego=apple kind, which I hated in the last two episodes. It doesn't add anything, it's not a fun visual gag, it's just lazy writing. A third instance would have turned it into 'a thing' in my mind.

I like Troy breaking away from Abed, and I can't wait for what I assume the final episode will be, which is a struggle for Troy's soul by the Vice-Dean on one hand, and Abed on the other. Or maybe the rest of the group on the other, and Abed oblivious to the whole thing.