# Community 5.11 "GI Jeff" April 3, 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688 "2014-03-27T16:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 27, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/1 "2014-03-27T16:47:47Z")
[5.01/5.02 “Repilot”/“Introduction to teaching”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=711877) [5.03 Basic Intergluteal Numismatics](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17000800) [5.04 Cooperative Polygraphy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17018930) [5.05 Geothermal Escapism](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=713937) [5.06 Analysis of Cork-based marketing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=714577) [5.07 Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=717040) [5.08 App Development and Condiments](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=717634) [5.09 VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17192448) [5.10 Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=718853) [PSA from tonight’s episode](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2N8wLKC7bw). Going to be 80s nostalgia overload. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/2 "2014-03-27T16:50:18Z")
Actually, it airs next week. Tonight is back-to-back repeats of _Hollywood Game Night_. ---
**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 27, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/3 "2014-03-27T16:56:47Z")
Ah, crap. Well, I usually check that. I guess we can just let this sit for a week then. If a mod would like to change the date in the title to April 3rd that’d be good. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/4 "2014-03-27T23:12:45Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Ah, crap. Well, I usually check that. I guess we can just let this sit for a week then. If a mod would like to change the date in the title to April 3rd that’d be good. Done. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/5 "2014-04-04T10:50:52Z")
Short on laughs, but kind of cute in a nostalgia sort of way. I haven’t watched one of those things in 15 years, but it seemed spot on. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/6 "2014-04-04T11:25:13Z")
“Cute” is exactly the word I would use for it. The plot (such as it was) was pretty pointless and lame, though. Not to mention that this was the second episode in a row that was rehashing an idea from a previous season. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/7 "2014-04-04T13:04:44Z")
Not a great episode. It would have been awful if not for Rob Schrab’s excellent directing and his voice work as cobra commander. He gave it a nice Venture Bros. vibe, especially during the Destro memorial scene. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/8 "2014-04-04T14:11:13Z")
You know, I didn’t think it was all that good. I mean it was cool that all the old G.I. Joe stuff was being done, but aside from that… though I did love when Jeff was like, of course we want to kill them, what’s wrong with you people. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/9 "2014-04-04T14:19:59Z")
The GI Joe parody stuff was hilarious. I loved the first half. When it actually tried to turn it into a Community plot, it lost me. All the characters were great, though. Britta as “Buzzkill” hahaha. ---
**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 4, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/10 "2014-04-04T14:26:54Z")
I haven’t gotten a chance to watch the episode but a buddy of mine got to do a bunch of sound editing for this (he also does sound for the Harmontown podcast and a bunch of other stuff in the LA area). ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/11 "2014-04-04T16:05:12Z")
One of my least favorites episodes, probably because the GI Joe cartoon came after my cartoon days. ---
**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 4, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/12 "2014-04-04T20:07:09Z")
I want a Tight Ship action figure. Life sized. With realistic features. Basically, I want to nail Alison Brie. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/13 "2014-04-04T22:09:35Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I want a Tight Ship action figure. > > Life sized. > > With realistic features. > > Basically, I want to nail Alison Brie. They didn’t need to make Tight Ship’s eyes blue. Maybe it was to match her shirt - halter top - whatever it was she was wearing. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/14 "2014-04-04T23:16:09Z")
What color do you think Alison Brie’s eyes are? p.s. Her character should have been code named Motorboat. ---
**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 4, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/15 "2014-04-04T23:23:19Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > p.s. Her character should have been code named Motorboat. That. Is so much better. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/16 "2014-04-05T00:42:51Z")
Wow. I have never seen an episode of Community that had nothing for me. From my point of view, worst episode ever. Maybe if I had watched GI Joe, I would feel different. But they have parodied things that I didn’t watch before and I could still enjoy those episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/17 "2014-04-05T01:18:11Z")
It wasn’t the best. I don’t know if I didn’t love it because GI Joe wasn’t my favorite cartoon or if it just fell flat. I did love how everyone flipped out when Jeff killed the guy. It was nice lampshade hanging on cartoon immortality. And I liked the end, taking down the terribly cheesy morals the show always had. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/18 "2014-04-05T01:46:52Z")
Did you guys hear slurred speech and slowed-down sound too? Not just in the animated segments but the live-action ones too? Was that a spoof of something? ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/19 "2014-04-05T15:18:10Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Did you guys hear slurred speech and slowed-down sound too? Not just in the animated segments but the live-action ones too? Was that a spoof of something? Well, the animated segments were supposed to be Jeff’s dreams while passed out on scotch and pills… ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688/20 "2014-04-05T15:22:10Z")
> [@The\_Controvert](#): > > What color do you think Alison Brie’s eyes are? > > p.s. Her character should have been code named Motorboat. Damn, dude. That’s funnier than the episode. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-11-gi-jeff-april-3-2014/684688.md?page=2)