# Community 5/17 - 3 episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280 "2012-05-18T02:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/42 "2012-05-18T20:04:59Z")
I felt like an idiot for a while. I was trying to figure out why evil Abed was trying to cut off Jeff’s arm until it dawned on me that Jeff in the dark timeline has one arm. And yeah, I think Abed mentioned that to Britta but he was talking so fast I think I missed it. And I thought that Evil Abed’s plan was to get his study group into the good timeline to undo the damage caused in the dark one. How would making the good timeline into a copy of the dark timeline accomplish this? ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/43 "2012-05-18T21:29:48Z")
“When the world gets bad enough, the good go crazy, but the smart, they go bad!” Evil Abed’s intent is to make the real timeline dark I believe. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/44 "2012-05-19T00:11:49Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I have a feeling that if someone goes to the trouble of pausing every frame of the video game, it will be full of Easter eggs, particularly the menus. Sure enough, someone on reddit went to the trouble: [Hilda’s Menus](http://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/tsx4q/hildas_menus/) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/45 "2012-05-19T00:12:12Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Didn’t watch the video game episode yet. > > But yay! Starface is back! StarBURNSHis name is Alex! Loved all three episodes, but especially the video game one. Somewhere, someone has to be working on turning that into a real game. They just HAVE to. TROY AND ABED BREATHING FIRE! Fake Dean was listed as Faux-by (Faux Moby) in the credits, lol I like how Troy was so annoyed by how weird the AC school was. “NO! TAKE HIM TO THE POLICE!” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/46 "2012-05-19T00:38:14Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Black Cave, has a fried chicken platform. and is swarming with jive turkeys. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/47 "2012-05-19T00:52:09Z")
[A guest spot for the next season?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BtEW3dAAF7M) ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/48 "2012-05-19T00:58:54Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > Sure enough, someone on reddit went to the trouble: [Hilda’s Menus](http://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/tsx4q/hildas_menus/) Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/49 "2012-05-19T02:01:48Z")
What an amazing late season surge this year. All three episodes were great, as per usual lately. The video game episode was my favorite of the three. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/50 "2012-05-19T02:22:28Z")
A lot of the levels looked vaguely familiar to me. One of them was definitely from the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom NES game. Another might have been a Metroid level? Any others cribbed from real games? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/51 "2012-05-19T02:56:48Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > A lot of the levels looked vaguely familiar to me. One of them was definitely from the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom NES game. Another might have been a Metroid level? Any others cribbed from real games? The dungeon struck me as very Super Mario-esque, though of course it wasn’t from the actual game. And the outdoor progression area (where they went to the “Lazy Valley” and “Gay Island” was quite obviously patterned after Super Mario World. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/52 "2012-05-19T03:27:14Z")
The video game episode was one of my favorites of the whole series. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/53 "2012-05-19T04:12:21Z")
Dan Harmon has been forced [out](http://www.avclub.com/articles/breaking-dan-harmon-out-as-showrunner-of-community,75385/) as showrunner. Expect a continued mass exodus of the most important producers and writers along with the creator now being gone. I knew it was too good to be true, shows with ratings this low just don’t get to keep doing whatever they want. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/54 "2012-05-19T05:38:59Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Ok, got a chance to watch the video game. It was tedious. I’ll play video games, but I’m not going to watch someone else playing them. I don’t get this. It’s a scripted show, not “watching someone” play video games. The game sequences were loaded with jokes and forwarded the plot and theme. This would be like complaining that you already work all day so you don’t want to watch The Office. ---
**Author:** ![Xandroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/91b2a8/32.png) [@Xandroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xandroid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/55 "2012-05-19T05:40:24Z")
Yikes! Well at least the first three seasons were pretty darn good while they lasted. > [@JSexton](#): > > A lot of the levels looked vaguely familiar to me. One of them was definitely from the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom NES game. Another might have been a Metroid level? Any others cribbed from real games? They all looked vaguely Mario-inspired but I didn’t see anything too familiar. The 8-bit Jeff Winger jump animation was almost exactly out of [Megaman](http://www.google.com/search?q=megaman+jump). ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/56 "2012-05-19T06:33:24Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > I don’t get this. It’s a scripted show, not “watching someone” play video games. The game sequences were loaded with jokes and forwarded the plot and theme. This would be like complaining that you already work all day so you don’t want to watch The Office. Well I don’t watch The Office. But that’s unrelated. I just found it tedious to watch the video game activity. It was easier to just listen to the dialog. That’s just my opinion, I’m not passing judgement on the episode. ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/57 "2012-05-19T06:40:14Z")
[http://www.1up.com/features/community-digital-estate-planning-guide](http://www.1up.com/features/community-digital-estate-planning-guide) Here’s a great look at most of the known video game references in the episode. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/58 "2012-05-19T07:17:03Z")
I have never seen or played any of those games. In fact I’ve not even heard of most of them. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/59 "2012-05-19T08:34:48Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > Dan Harmon has been forced [out](http://www.avclub.com/articles/breaking-dan-harmon-out-as-showrunner-of-community,75385/) as showrunner. [Dan responds.](http://danharmon.tumblr.com/post/23339272200/hey-did-i-miss-anything) ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/60 "2012-05-19T08:53:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I have never seen or played any of those games. In fact I’ve not even heard of most of them. Really? It’s mostly things like Mario, Zelda, Maga Man, and Minecraft. That’s about as mainstream as you can get. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280/61 "2012-05-19T09:11:58Z")
> [@CyclopticXander](#): > > It’s mostly things like Mario, Zelda, Maga Man, and Minecraft. Those I’ve heard of, but don’t actually _know_. The others mentioned, some of which may be spinoffs and sequels to the aforementioned I imagine, I’ve not heard of at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-5-17-3-episodes/622280.md?page=4)