I won’t lie, I did not read the whole thread, but I just watched tonight’s episode and had a question.
Why does a community college have dorms? Every community college I’ve ever heard of only has local students that commute daily for class.
Why does it have a PA system like high school? And how would a school-sponsored event in the library serve alcohol (last week’s Halloween party)? And 4-year degrees? I think ultimately the answer is because setting up funny plots is the priority, they don’t care much for realism.
I was asking because I haven’t been watching the show and I was wondering if they had explained it at some point.
Some community colleges do have on-campus housing, but it’s rare and seems to occur mosly in rural areas. And did Abed’s dorm room was huge! :eek: Not only was it biger than any double I’ve seen in real life, but he had bunk beds and no roommate? :dubious:
The local community college here just added dorm rooms. Certainly not a rural area. Abed’s dorm didn’t seem that big. Just a Bunk bed, desk, couch and a TV. Most dorms on TV are huge.
My double, built in 1882, was about that size. It wasn’t community college though. 16 foot ceilings add to the expansive feeling.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
My new favorite threat: “The next person will be mentioned by name in my suicide note.”
Not nearly as good as the previous episodes, but I do always like to see Patton Oswalt in just about anything. (“I am kinda the Hawkeye around here”)
And again, the actress who plays Annie is for my money the most attractive new face on TV…
BrandonR, lots of events at my university (University of Montana) served alcohol, and sometimes it was even free- for some reason one day all of us seniors were given tacos and free beer. I’d just turned 21 so it was wonderful.
It’s possible that he paid extra for a double-as-single dorm room, but Abed is weird enough that if he was assigned a double room with a roommate, said roommate would do as much as possible as fast as possible to get a new room assignment.
Was Abed’s room really that big? It seemed only a little bit longer and wider than my dorm room was, but I was in the second-smallest double rooms on campus. Yeah, there was a couch, but if it was a room intended for two normal beds, then the couch is taking up one bed’s worth of space.
Many colleges (and I would assume community colleges as well) are building bigger and nicer dorms strictly for money reasons; students are often drawn to the school with the nicest dorm. Understandable really: I couldn’t live in one of the refrigerator box sized places you’re expected to share at some places.
Favorite lines: “Saying goodbye to Britta… she’s a GDB”
and
“I wanna get a video of Pierce. I’m hoping for a Michael Richards style event!”
And Joel McHale has a hot body.
From what I’ve read of Chevy Chase (which I don’t think includes anything flattering) I’m surprised he’s willing to play second banana, but it was a great decision. This is his best work in many years and he proves he’s still got it.
She’s on Mad Men, too, in case you weren’t aware.
Maybe it’s the couch that was throwing me off. We did have bunkable beds, but the only room I saw where anybody actually set them up that way just had both dressers and one of the desks on the other side. No couch. I ended up having to put my minifridge in my closet.
Re Abed not having a roommate I realized that it’s possible he could’ve gotten a single for mental health reasons. I new a girl who got one by convincing her therapist to write a letter saying that she could be a danger to her roommate if she had to share a room.
It looks like Community has been building in the ratings week by week, and can probably now be called a certified hit. It’s especially strong in that key 18-49 demographic. It’s apparently helping to buoy up Parks and Recreation as well.
I think Community has the potential to be a sort of Arrested Development Lite. It’s not as cerbral, but has a certain similarity in its manic tone and edge.
the question is, if it becomes a long running series, how many years can they keep this same cast in community college?
Of course, Mash lasted something like 5 times longer than the actual Korean War, so maybe it doesn’t matter.
It’s definitely growing on me; I was iffy after the first couple of episodes but the characters are beginning to flesh out nicely. As cliche’ as it sounds, Jeff showing vulnerability in the last couple of eps has helped it greatly as has Pierce showing some sensitivity in tonight’s episode and Abed being spot-on and capable of some emotional skills when he’s not busy being a Palestinian Rainman. They haven’t addressed [can’t remember her name- large black lady whose husband cheated on her] in much depth yet, but we already know a good bit about her and I’m sure she’ll have her own episodes. And the faux Greendale site linked to above is fabelhof.
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Fawlty Towers.
Check mate.
Greendale also seems pretty desperate for new students, so it’s possible the dorm population is small enough that he would have gotten a double-as-single no matter what. I knew that Montana State University, which has a large student population, is still able to offer double-as-single as a standard option, even for freshmen.
At 10:32 in if you’re watching on Hulu, you can see one of the width-wise* walls of Abed’s room and I think the thing is, Abed’s room is wider than I expected, and has less clothing storage. This is almost certainly a double-as-single, and there should be another clothes cupboard if it were a true double.
It is entirely possible that I am overthinking this.
*Is that even a phrase? I mean the wall with the door that is parallel to the halllway
Holy Crap, is that Trudy? I totally didn’t notice until you mentioned it!
Now I have someone else to add to the weirdness of Mad Men. It’s already strange knowing that the President’s daughter got knocked up by the son of a vampire.
Go on…
Yeah, it helps that the show has some nice people to look at. Annie is cute, but it is a bit of a stretch for her to go 18. In Pierce’s hallucination you get a close up her face without the “teenage” makeup and wardrobe, and you can see how much older she is (and how naturally beautiful she is). For my money though Britta is the cutest thing to hit TV in a while. Not just the looks but her personality and mannerisms. She looked especially cute in this week’s episode.