# Community 3/24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915 "2011-03-25T02:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/21 "2011-03-25T19:14:18Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > So what do you call a female tiger? A female tiger. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/22 "2011-03-25T19:23:22Z")
I took the line as “Famous actress and a bunch of other people.” Either way, it works. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/23 "2011-03-25T19:27:04Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > _My Dinner with Andre_ has always been one of my favourite movies. Excellent parody. Indeed, from the first scene - arriving, voice over, Abed’s sweater nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/24 "2011-03-25T20:36:58Z")
There are good looking guys out there who call phone sex lines and pretend to weigh 400 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/25 "2011-03-25T20:45:39Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > I thought it was cute and very much in character for Troy to call wine ‘no-no juice’ yet still drink it. It totally went over my head that the “no-no juice” was wine. (And I didn’t realize that Abed was doing _My Dinner With Andre_ until the waiter mentioned it.) ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/26 "2011-03-25T21:18:24Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > “I saw thirty minutes of it on an airplane. It’s about a group of friends who like cheeseburgers, dancing and the Bible.” Actually, I think she said “it was a thirty minute movie about a group of friends who like cheeseburgers, dancing and the Bible.” It’s funnier that way because airplane movies are SO edited, that only 30 minutes remained of what could be shown. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/27 "2011-03-25T21:20:03Z")
Exactly. And Shirley didn’t realize that the film had been edited down to thirty minutes, but believed that she saw the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/28 "2011-03-25T21:35:26Z")
All the Cougar Town jokes were funny and all, but mainly they made me wish Cougar Town was currently on the ABC schedule. It got to be a pretty good show once they totally dropped the entire premise and just made it the cul de sac crew. Better than Mr. Sunshine at least. And way better than Better With You/reruns of other shows that they air in the 8:30 Wednesday slot. PENNY CAN! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/29 "2011-03-25T22:19:02Z")
I loved the gift of the wallet. Jeff: It’s the one that says Bad Moth… Hostess: Your table’s ready. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/30 "2011-03-25T22:34:39Z")
There’s an exchange after Abed tells his Cougartown/poop story. Jeff says “Your food’s getting cold” and Abed says something like “I’ll still eat me”. Did anybody catch that? I didn’t get it. Best delivered line of that night was Jeff’s “Yeaaaaaaa…” MY DINNER WITH ANDRE is on [youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZMwcNNvrQ) in its entirety. I picked up on the parody when Abed was talking about the 200 people on Cougartown being a community. I haven’t tried watching MDWA in more than 15 years- I couldn’t get past Andre Gregory droning on about some pretentious piece of performance art; I’ll rewatch it to see the Wallace Shawn parts. (Jeff was the Shawn character.) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/31 "2011-03-25T22:52:55Z")
I think he said “how silly of me” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/32 "2011-03-25T22:59:20Z")
I was wondering why Abed was served his appetizer or salad course, while Jeff never received the salad he ordered. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/33 "2011-03-25T23:15:35Z")
Not having seen “My Dinner With Andre” what would the waiter have done if he’d been following the script? I liked it. It worked for me. Actually, NBC had a pretty strong night last night - Community, Parks & Rec, The Office (for the first time in a very long time), and 30 Rock (for the first time in not quite as long as the office, but still a while) all had very well done episodes. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/34 "2011-03-25T23:44:44Z")
Well that did absolutely nothing for me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/35 "2011-03-25T23:54:01Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Not having seen “My Dinner With Andre” what would the waiter have done if he’d been following the script? > > I liked it. It worked for me. Actually, NBC had a pretty strong night last night - Community, Parks & Rec, The Office (for the first time in a very long time), and 30 Rock (for the first time in not quite as long as the office, but still a while) all had very well done episodes. At 10:30 Outsourced was really funny, too, but you were probably going to bed by then like millions of other people who won’t miss it next season… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/36 "2011-03-26T00:41:23Z")
I haven’t seen My Dinner with Andre, but I loved the episode. I don’t think getting the reference would have improved it; what made it so funny to me was Danny Pudi’s acting. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/37 "2011-03-26T01:29:38Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > I don’t think getting the reference would have improved it; what made it so funny to me was Danny Pudi’s acting. Hard to believe he hasn’t been nominated for any awards yet. He’s better than Jim Parsons, and that is praise indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/38 "2011-03-26T01:55:13Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > So what do you call a female tiger? A tiger, you sexist! Interesting episode. Not their funniest, but pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/39 "2011-03-26T02:07:07Z")
My Dinner with Andre was one of my teachers’ favorite movies. We watched it in class and all I can remember is staying awake until Wallace Shawn said “Inconceivable!” then falling asleep. So if the waiter hadn’t mentioned the movie I also wouldn’t have gotten the reference. 🙂 I enjoyed the episode but I never want to hear about Cougartown again. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915/40 "2011-03-26T04:06:04Z")
I thought it was touching and funny. Danny Pudi was amazing. My only gripe is that I thought Abed was going through a real crisis, like he did at Christmas. I found it engrossing. But the reveal that it was a movie trick undercut the emotion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-3-24/575915.md?page=3)