HOLY SHIT.
I literally just finished watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War on Netflix Streaming, got “elevated” on some Sierra Nevada Torpedo, and watched this episode of Community on Hulu in perhaps the most perfect viewing frame of mind possible.
I love this show.
That was a minor miracle of comedy. At first, I thought it was amusing but just another genre parody. But they kept going and going, piling on joke after gag after sly reference until it reached an entirely new level.
Bravo.
After last week’s episode, I was expecting great things … and I was not disappointed. Basically on the same level as previous season finales only better: there’s more to come.
Several episodes of Season 1 I re-watched soon after. A few from Season 2. These are the first two of this season that demand re-watching over and over.
Keith David has one very nice resume. He was even on Mr. Rogers!
I have seen several times lately that Community is NBC’s 2nd highest rated comedy (presumably after The Office.). Anybody know where this comes from?
This episode was Chang-tastic!
I didn’t see Community until I happened across “Modern Warfare” (the original paintball episode) in Season One … and I’ve been hooked every since. I have Netflixed the Season One DVDs, and it kinda started out as a run-of-the-mill sitcom with the main theme of Winger trying to get Britta to sleep with him. About halfway through the first season, it starts to find its footing as something entirely different, and I think by “Modern Warfare” it’s in full stride. It’s ironic, then, that that’s the episode where Jeff and Britta actually do have sex.
Anyway, great series. I loved this episode. From the previews, I wasn’t excited (as a continuation of last week’s episode, I wasn’t all that interested in how the blanket/pillow fort story was going to play out) … but from the moment this one started as a Greendale Community College TV Production, and the narration and the Ken Burns music started … Comedy Gold, I tell ya!
I loved that this one ended with a PBS-esque pledge drive hosted by Troy and Abed.
"The north wing is not named after General North, but because of its position above the South Wall… " We cracked up so much that we had to rewind and watch that section again, and again.
Agree with everyone. A great, iconic episode.
What’s even better is that you could show this to someone not acquainted with the show and they’d still find it funny. Most great episodes depend on the audience totally knowing the characters.
Three more episodes to go. I hope they’re just as good.
It’s just been announced that “Remedial Chaos Theory” was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. If the three Doctor Who episodes on the ballot cancel each other out, Community might sneak in. 
It’s rare for a non-SF tv show to get a nomination for a single SF episode. Partly because that doesn’t happen too often, but also the Hugo voters tend to nominate genre shows.
That’s awesome!
I can’t find ski,shoot and sing on my satellite tv. I am starting to think it is a totally made up show.
No, Community is real.
Earlier in the series, there was an episode that showed all of the characters on the first day of school. The portrait over Pierce’s bed is Chevy Chase as Ty Webb from Caddyshack.
I watched this episode again last night. I noticed that when Jeff went back to get the imaginary hats, he picked them up exactly where Abed and Troy threw them.
Troy’s was a little crumpled, too.
Best line of the film (probably flubbed here):
"I learned something about loyalty today. I learned that I would do anything for my friends. Anything.
So I think I finally understand war."
I think my favorite part of that whole bit was that Jeff was finally writing in his journal, y’know, with no audience, just so he could figure things out, as Annie had told him to do. And as soon as he’d finished he ripped the page out to give to the documentary crew. What looked like real character development for him turned out to be yet another case of Jeff fundamentally not getting the idea of being a decent human being for the sake of being a decent human being. It was great.
“Part man, part pillow, all carnage. Pierce Hawthorn had transformed himself into an unstopably plush juggernaut.”
They’d still find it funny, but they wouldn’t get much of it. For example, real Neil with pipes of steel isn’t so funny if you don’t know Neil’s story.
Spot on. Bonus arrogance points for his suggestion that he’d read it, unless they want to get Tom Hanks.