I’d forgotten about the padded cell.
“Mercury ingestion!”
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.
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.
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.
$5 says we see the Old West set again in the season finale.
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.
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.
Gerat epp. Troy’s line about punching the hole in the raft was the best.
Also, Britta in her underpants was the best.
Boy, did I need that!
Just saw it on Hulu. 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.
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.
Did anyone notice in the diorama (of making the previous diorama) a Chang figure at the window, looking in?
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.
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?
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).
is that a new stereotype?!?
It’s like a reverse cow birth!
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.
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.”
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.