# Community 4/21 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324 "2011-04-22T03:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/21 "2011-04-22T15:03:25Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Anyway, I loved the Glee parody & the insane asylum & the “Dean” montage & the idea of doing a clip show of episodes that never happened. I’d forgotten about the padded cell. “Mercury ingestion!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/22 "2011-04-22T15:18:49Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > What show has ever put more time, work and creativity into a clip show than a regular episode? Well, _The Simpsons_ have a few original-material clip shows. And I also believed the puncturing the back of an inflatable raft would make it go faster. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/23 "2011-04-22T15:21:07Z")
> [@Grapefruit](#): > > And was that a failed magic trick? I haven’t seen _The Cape_, but my guess is that Abed was just trying to be dramatic in a superhero-like fashion by waving his cape around. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/24 "2011-04-22T15:30:12Z")
I gave The Cape a shot: The main character acquires a “magical” cape from circus performers made of spiderweb silk or some shit. Then he lashes it around like a whip to foil the bad guys, like pulling the guns out of their hands. So Abed was trying to master that action. Brilliant! The Cape only lasted 10 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/25 "2011-04-22T15:47:06Z")
$5 says we see the Old West set again in the season finale. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/26 "2011-04-22T15:54:48Z")
Guess I’m the minority, but I thought it was by far the worst episode of the entire series. The only time I laughed was when Annie’s Boobs was beating on Chang at the end. For once, I think the meta concept backfired. The jokes just didn’t hit for me at all. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/27 "2011-04-22T16:05:48Z")
This was a great one again. I confess that for a while this show was hit or miss for me, but they keep getting better and better. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/28 "2011-04-22T17:04:17Z")
Gerat epp. Troy’s line about punching the hole in the raft was the best. Also, Britta in her underpants was the best. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/29 "2011-04-22T17:36:26Z")
Boy, did I need that! Just saw it on [Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/watch/233349/community-paradigms-of-human-memory). It was absolutely hilarious. They’ve just been getting too meta lately, and too character driven. This took the show back to its roots. I wonder if they’ve been gradually filming this episode throughout the season. It would be especially useful in the reused situations like the Halloween episode. This is by far the best episode of this season, if not the whole show. Like I’ve said before, you need lots of rapidfire jokes to keep the laughter from beginning to end. Parody by itself is not funny. Parody mixed with silliness is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/30 "2011-04-22T18:00:51Z")
I read (Sepinwall, I think) that the claymation scene was created at the same time as the Christmas episode but everything else, including the Halloween party scene, had to be filmed fresh for this episode. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/31 "2011-04-22T18:18:36Z")
Did anyone notice in the diorama (of making the previous diorama) a Chang figure at the window, looking in? ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/32 "2011-04-22T18:28:07Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I don’t recall anyone ever making a clip show out of new material. The Clerks animated series did a clip show as the second episode. It was about 50% clips from the first episode and 50% things that never happened. I thought the joke was brilliant, but it wasn’t half as funny as this Community episode. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/33 "2011-04-22T18:29:26Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Did anyone notice in the diorama (of making the previous diorama) a Chang figure at the window, looking in? I had to rewind to point that out to my wife. Anyone who didn’t laugh when they cut to Chang smearing vaseline all over himself is dead inside. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/34 "2011-04-22T18:33:27Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > I had to rewind to point that out to my wife. > > Anyone who didn’t laugh when they cut to Chang smearing vaseline all over himself is dead inside. Is that a new stereotype? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/35 "2011-04-22T19:07:27Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well, _The Simpsons_ have a few original-material clip shows… **Fraiser** has also done clip shows where the flashbacks were all new material. Most of the **Golden Girls** clip shows used real clips from past episodes, but they sometimes mixed in new materal (for example there was never an actual episode were they went to a clothing optional resort, only a flashback in the Valentine’s Day clip show). ---
**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:** [April 22, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/36 "2011-04-22T19:31:36Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > is that a new stereotype? is that a new stereotype?!? ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/37 "2011-04-22T19:43:32Z")
It’s like a reverse cow birth! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/38 "2011-04-22T20:04:39Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > **Fraiser** has also done clip shows where the flashbacks were all new material. I remember that because it was right near the finale and I didn’t watch it thinking it was a traditional Clip show but later found out it was much more ambitious. South Park had a clip show where all the clips were inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![TheTerribleTako](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TheTerribleTako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTerribleTako)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/39 "2011-04-22T21:43:39Z")
Was that the Dean with them on their camping trip? How did he manage to finagle his way into that outing? And was it related to the blown up Habitat for Humanity house? My favorite sequence was Troy’s meta-freakout. This was a fun episode and it made me wish the Western clips, the St. Patrick’s Day clips, and the Haunted House clips were from full episodes. Greendale also has cosmotology classes. Nifty. I have to find a way to work “humanity is premiering” into my lexicon. Though the line of the night goes to Shirley’s “We’re starting to hurt innocent perverts.” ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324/40 "2011-04-22T22:55:42Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > The only time I laughed was when Annie’s Boobs was beating on Chang at the end. This was the big laugh for me as well. I was also picturing the read through: “So, we’ve trained the monkey to smack you in the back of the head…” The rest was a “meh.” But in mostly not working for me, the attempt was still more interesting than most sitcoms ever get. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-4-21/579324.md?page=3)