I assumed California but I don’t know it was ever stated.
Watched this show late but I agree with most of the comments. Liked it a ton and will be adding it to the DVR queue.
The best line of the show was when McHale said “the funny thing about being smart is that you can get through life without having to do any work.” It’s funny and true, almost profound even. As a pretty bright slacker myself I have to say I was feeling what he was feeling.
If the writing can keep itself up to the level of the Pilot this thing is going to be a huge success.
They say Glendale. I figured it was either Glendale California or Arizona they referred to.
What’d you think of last night’s episode?
I thought it definitely had some moments. My favorite part was the class presentation of course. Least favorite: Ahvid (sp?) being too obvious as a fictional television character there for exposition, though I did love his tweak of McHale’s self congratulatory coolness.
The meta commentary is kind of amusing, but could get old if they keep it up.
The class presentation was the best part, though I reckon it could have done without being “gratuitously critical of Israel.”
Not important, but it does raise the question - Don’t they speak Spanish in Colombia?
I get the joke and it’s funny, but if you want a light comedy to have ‘canon’ it wouldn’t make sense that he wouldn’t know much Spanish if he went to college in Colombia.
I don’t even know why I bothered to type that up, but I did and I’m posting it.
Weak premise, funny show. I’m genuinely surprised by how much I like Chevy Chase. And by how much less cute and charming Joel McHale is when the other characters keep pointing it out.
Not as good as the pilot episode, but still pretty funny, and I (God help me) actually liked the asian Spanish teachers’ cringeworthy rant about why he is so passionate about teaching Spanish…
(The brunette girl from class is really beautiful, I think much more so than the other actress, who is attractive, but not really my type)
I really liked it. I think this show could turn out to be really good (like Arrested Development good).
Speaking of which:
I agree that it could get old, if not done right - but I think they’re doing it pretty well so far.
AIUI, part of the joke is that he didn’t live in Colombia to attend a university; he attended online courses. (e.g., “And now I have to get one [a diploma] from America… and it can’t be an email attachment.”)
I thought the best part was definitely the beatbox rap song during the end credits.
Yeah.
The standard of verisimilitude is other successful TV comedies, not actuality.
There was never an army surgical unit exactly like MASH, or a bar exactly like Cheers, or castaways who can rig all kinds of awesome gadgets, but can’t call for help, or a black doctor married to a black lawyer who never had anything bad to say about white people, or…
The outdoor scenes are shot in the LA area, and that’s what LA community colleges look like. IMDB says they shoot exteriors at Los Angeles City College. Looking at the campus from the bird’s eye view in Bing, I recognize the plaza where the silent protest scene takes place.
This is a Q and A by the cast and showrunner held for LACC students at the campus. http://www.hulu.com/watch/96397/community-community-pilot-screening-and-qa
http://video.tvguide.com/Community/Community+Cast+QA+Part+1/2726528?autoplay=true&partnerid=OVG
It may be there already.
Edited so I can grab the critical high ground: Slap me around in two weeks, but this could be one of the greats.
The pilot was good enough for me to come back, not brilliant, but promising. The second ep was surprisingly good.
Big ratings dropoff from the first week though. http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/25/tv-ratings-thursday-flashforward-flashes-brightly-greys-anatomy-annihilates-csi-the-mentalist-with-adults-18-49/28371
Maybe it is the new AD, then.
Definitely less good than the premiere, but I’m still totally on board and looking forward to next week’s episode, whatever it may be. (I didn’t stick around for previews if there were any.)
Heh.
But it does bring some of that AD style nuttiness, the Chevy Chase character in particular.
Also, Office style douche chill humor. Sometimes, the cringe-worthy moments are a little too much.
They need to sandwich the show between 30 Rock and The Office. That’ll help the ratings.
It’s Greendale Community College in Colorado. There’s a website with a great set of web-only videos promoting the college (the school’s slogan: “You’re already accepted!”).
I teach at a community college (and I attended one for the better part of a decade), and the “high school with ashtrays” stereotype is certainly operative here, but what the heck – how many high schools portrayed on TV or in the movies are anything like any real high school. At least on this show they don’t have to pretend that the 30-year-olds are really 17.
They do shoot at LACC, but the architecture is typical 1950’s - 1960’s public college (back when California spent money on public infrastructure; sigh…). In the opening scenes of the pilot I would have sworn that they were at Cal State Fullerton.
I kinda like Parks & Rec, but I think it’s being given extra time not because of Amy Pohler, but because Lorne Michaels is EP. He thus owns 60 minutes of the Thursday block, which is why we get the SNL preview until 30 Rock returns.
Best thing about the episode (out of a lot of good things): When the Abed and Troy showed Jeff and Pierce their dialog for class. It was a nod to the old Harcourt Brace and World language dialogs from the 60s: “Where is the library?” etc. Anyone who took high school language courses in that time is familiar with them.
I didn’t like the 2nd episode nearly as much as the first. Mainly too much Chevy and not enough Abed. Last week they used Chevy just the right amount and he was a likeable loser. This week he is just plain nuts and loathesome.
I think he was supposed to do for “Community” what Alec Baldwin does for “30 Rock.” Not going to work the way he used him this week.
The crazy prof rant has been done better. That was a waste of air time.