Abed has video cameras doesn’t he? why doesn’t he video Troy and Abed in the Morning?
Because that would ruin the joke.
How do you know he isn’t? You’re watching the video, after all.
we know there is no video because that is the joke, but who are they making the joke for?! no one else is there to watch them aside from the “protestors” out in the corridor.
Why would he video it? What would be the point?
They’re making the joke for themselves. Well, not even, really… they’re making the show for themselves, and the writers are making the joke for us viewers at home.
Explanations. Fighting humour since 1973.
I don’t really think you get the show. It’s a show about people who are capable of looking at themselves from the outside, and laughing; of doing ridiculous things, and then finding the fact that they’re doing ridiculous things hilarious.
He’s not. It’s established in at least two of the Troy and Abed in the Morning clips that there are no cameras.
i know the meta aspect of the show, but they also have consistent in-character motivations for it as well? i don’t recall any jokes that breaks(?) the 4th wall except for the morning show.
Troy and Abed in the Morning is indeed recorded and broadcast, but only in Detroit. They’re not crazy about it up there.
Then how is it we can see it? Someone is running a camera.
Troy and Abed like to pretend. Sometimes they pretend to be Inspector Spacetime and Constable Wigglesworth, and sometimes they pretend to be morning show hosts.
Not Abed and not in-universe.
I don’t see how that’s breaking the fourth wall. As** h.sapiens **said, they’re just pretending.
It depends on what you mean by breaking the fourth wall. Some consider only direct addresses to the audience as breaking the fourth wall, but I tend to consider a lot of genre-savvy sort of actions as breaking the fourth wall. Abed describing something as a bottle episode? Breaking the fourth wall. Following Annie and Shirley around providing commentary on their good cop/bad cop subplot? Breaking the fourth wall. If it is meant to remind the viewer that they are watching a show, it’s breaking the fourth wall, in my opinion.
Did someone film the claymation Christmas special? We saw that, too.
It’s just a fun way to start the day.
When they did Troy and Abed in the Mooooorning: Nights! they weren’t even in the study room.
Except it’s established that Abed thinks everything is a TV show. In that context behaviour like that is not acknowledging the audience at all.
You may as well say Michael Westen’s narration on Burn Notice (or any similar voiceover) is breaking the fourth wall.
When they do Inspector Spacetime are they breaking the 5th wall ?
Except they only ever have Abed thinking everything is a TV show when they want to remind viewers about some facet of Community itself. Voiceovers have become a standard convention of the medium that no one really notices them as a storytelling device. When Abed says things like, “We did have an Annie/Abed heavy B plot last episode so we should lay low for an episode or two” and then they do, that’s noticeable.