# Community 5.12 "Basic Story" 4/10/14 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841 "2014-04-11T01:48:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **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:** [April 11, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/1 "2014-04-11T01:48:03Z")
[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) [5.11 GI Jeff](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=719384) ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/2 "2014-04-11T04:20:09Z")
That was absolutely hilarious! I couldn’t stop laughing! Some great bits in there - Chang hearing about buried treasurer while focusing on emergency meeting and writing down ‘tomato’, The computer fucking professor (Oh, he meant that literally - the Dean was hilarious in every scene), Duncan and Hickey sharing drinks and almost coming to the realization that they may be related, the meta-non-story-story, heck, I even thought the Britta and Jeff ‘proposal’ was kind of funny (let’s do a number 8). Ah, that was great stuff! ---
**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 11, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/3 "2014-04-11T04:53:48Z")
I thought it kinda weak, actually, and that’s something of a first for me and _Community_. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/4 "2014-04-11T07:02:48Z")
I’m wondering if, starting with the board members wanting to sell the school, it’s all in Abed’s head. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/5 "2014-04-11T09:46:32Z")
That started out very strangely. But it ended well. “Tomato” ---
**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 11, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/6 "2014-04-11T11:21:13Z")
I thought it was awful. There was a serious dearth of jokes (aside from the tiny quantity of meta-humour that comes from saying “look at how nothing is happening”), some awkward Subway ™ promotion, and it just seemed like a waste of time. The previous season is starting to look better and better in retrospect… ---
**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 11, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/7 "2014-04-11T12:08:55Z")
When they list things they fixed they include the gas leak. Seems to me that it’s worse then ever the last two episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/8 "2014-04-11T13:12:23Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > When they list things they fixed they include the gas leak. Seems to me that it’s worse then ever the last two episodes. But they did get the gymnasium demons exorcised, so they’ve got that going for them. Loved the fact that of the six Americans killed yearly by unstable vending machines … five are insurance appraisers testing the stability of said machines. “So I take this very seriously.” ---
**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 11, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/9 "2014-04-11T13:30:55Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Loved the fact that of the six Americans killed yearly by unstable vending machines … five are insurance appraisers testing the stability of said machines. “So I take this very seriously.” That was the real laugh-out-loud moment for me, I don’t recall another. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/10 "2014-04-11T17:08:07Z")
Other than the Subway references, it wasn’t particularly funny. I really think the show has lost its edge. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/11 "2014-04-11T17:51:40Z")
How could anyone not find the closing bit with John Oliver and Jonathan Banks hilarious? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/12 "2014-04-11T20:26:53Z")
Edit: Max, it was OK, but the, we might be parent and child, bit has been done to death in my opinion. This is the second time they’ve had a Subway tie-in. It’s also the second time they’ve mocked Subway, kind of like how the Simpsons mock Fox and Rupert Murdoch. They must be a main sponsor and have a great sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/13 "2014-04-11T20:52:17Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > (let’s do a number 8). Is that something established? ---
**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 11, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/14 "2014-04-11T22:30:34Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > How could anyone not find the closing bit with John Oliver and Jonathan Banks hilarious? Ha! Ha! Scunthorpe has the letters “c-u-n-t” in it! Hi-larious! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-12-basic-story-4-10-14/685841/15 "2014-04-12T00:44:13Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > Seems to me that it’s worse then ever the last two episodes. Agreed, these last two have left me cold.