I’m pretty sure it’s six seasons and a movie…
I think Community takes longer to get into than Arrested Development. Even though it is an acquired taste for some, you can get the basic idea of what AD is all about with a single episode.
Not so for Community, where different episodes could almost have come from entirely different shows. If you watch them all, you can see how they work together to achieve greatness, but critics aren’t going to do that.
Community has not been neglected by TV critics; it was listed as tied for the 4th best show of 2010 by Metacritic review of “best of the year” lists.
Emmy does ignore it, but I suspect the difficulty of picking one best actor/actress breaks up the vote.
SenorBeef said that it does not get “popular critical acclaim.” Metacritic is not a counterexample.
Arrested Development was nominated every year for Outstanding Comedy Series, and it won once.
Community has never even been nominated.
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Hopefully lots of McHale and Glover nudity. Maybe a hard core “Troy and Abed having gayyyy sex!” dream sequence. Throw in Annie’s boobs (the human, not the monkey) for straight guys and lesbians.
That is a contradiction in terms. Either something is popular, or it’s critically acclaimed. It can be both, but “popular critical acclaim” is meaningless, since critical acclaim is not a popularity vote.
The Emmys and Golden Globes are examples of well-known (i.e. popular) sources of critical acclaim. Thus, popular critical acclaim.
Arrested Development won six Emmy awards and one Golden Globe, and was consistently nominated.
Community doesn’t even get nominated.
AD was far more well-known as being a “critically acclaimed show.” The sentiment being expressed was wonderment at this disparity.
I’d be worried that the producers, writes, and/or the director would screw it up. Or they’d try to play it safe and must make it an hour and a half long episode.
Way to pull an Abed.
The current issue of Entertainment Weekly, the “comedy issue,” has a huge photo spread of the Community characters dressed up as the casts of *Porky’s *(towel alert), The Breakfast Club, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (bikini alert). Three pages of love. Jim Parsons gets a paragraph.
So many people complained about the lack of nominations for the show that they might be noticed this year. Except that all the hit new series are sitcoms whose casts might bump them from their rightful slots.
It also, from what I understand, get a huge bump from DVR users (people watching Big Bang Theory, I imagine) which doesn’t count as much as live viewers bit does count for something.
I think what saves it is that its audience is small but demographically desirable and also fanatical about the show. Also NBC is so far in the toilet they other other, more important problems.
I expect it to lose it lead off status and also eventually move to a different night but I don’t expect to get canceled. In fact I would be shocked if it didn’t get renewed for season 4 because season 4 brings it to the magic syndication number.
I think Community, has been critically acclaimed. The Golden Globes are popularity contests; critics don’t decide. As for the lack of Emmy nominations – that’s not the only sign of critical approval. The first place you go to for critical acclaim is critics critiquing, and the show has largely received good reviews from critics.
Neither award is “popular” under the usual definition of the word. They are voted upon by a small group of people (the Golden Globes especially – I think it’s around 100 voters, if that many), none of them critics.
They also aren’t exactly what anyone on Earth considered “critical acclaim”: they are awards.
Critical acclaim, by definition, is acclaim by critics. There is popularity, but that’s different. But “popular critical acclaim” is a nonsense term; “popular and critical acclaim” – a different concept altogether – is what you’re thinking of.
Arrested Development won more awards, but Community has always been critically acclaimed – in other words, it was praised by people who are paid to give opinions about TV shows. Critics considered it one of the best shows of last year, mentioning it far more often then shows like 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation. It received more first-place votes among TV critics’ top ten lists than any show other than Mad Men and Breaking Bad (from critics who ranked shows). By any definition, that’s critical acclaim.
It just hasn’t been nominated for awards, but the awards process is notoriously fluky. Golden Globes, as I mentioned, are a critical joke and the Emmys also have problems.
I think the latest episode is my least favorite of all. Troy and Abed are what kept it from being a complete disaster.
I have to disagree on both points.
Neither is as popular as, say, the Academy Awards, but when it comes to awards for television shows they are among the most popular.
Secondly, the awards ostensibly exist to recognize, or acclaim, the best shows. That they do a bad job of it or are not professionals doesn’t change that fact. For someone who does not peruse the reviews of professional television critics, the Emmys are one of the more likely ways they are to decide what is critically acclaimed.
Luckily there is plenty of context in this thread to figure it out, beginning with its introduction:
Reading between the lines, one might say that “popular critical acclaim” distinguishes well-known (popular) sources of “critical acclaim” like the Emmys or Golden Globes from lesser-known sources like what Daynah Burnett said on PopMatters.com.
I don’t even watch the Emmys, but I have been recommended Modern Family, and told that it won the Emmy. There is a certain amount of buzz generated by that, and up to now Community has been left out.
Really…by saying that you are gonna britta it!!!
You mean screw up in a tiny insignificant way?
I don’t think it’s fair to say that being snubbed by the Emmys means it didn’t receive critical acclaim.
Friday Night Lights and it’s actors were loved by critics but until the final season, were completely shut out of the Emmys.
The same was true of Battlestar Galactica except that it got shut out even in it’s final season.
Wow! You Britta-ed Britta-ing. Way to pull an Abed. 
I totally agree, and I don’t think anyone meant to say that it doesn’t receive critical acclaim.
It just hasn’t, for the most part, received the kind of “popular critical acclaim” (if you will) that creates buzz.
Imprecise language is one of my flaws. When I took the SAT I painstakingly attempted to use proper grammar, write coherently, and respond to the prompt. But when I finished, the only thing on my page was a crude drawing of a clown.