The show was sold for syndication to Comedy Central in March 2012, so it didn’t need a shot at syndication.
(FYI, it is scheduled to start airing there later this year.)
Might have been based on a promise of one more season, though.
I didn’t like it much, but I’m not going to write it off. They’re allowed to swing and miss from time to time.
One review I did see said it was like Community was taking on Community (like it had with Glee and L&O) and I felt that summed it up well.
Thank YOU! I squealed when I thought he was really replacing Chevy Chase, who I have always loathed in anything he plays. Fred Willard would make Pierce fun, not creepy and impossibly dull-witted.
I liked the show but it was a little much. It’s jarring after re-watching the entire series and seeing just how great it’s been these past seasons. I hope they get back in gear soon. And I hope they lay off the Chang thing because it’s gotten less funny as it goes on. I loved Chang and I love Crazy Chang but like the rest of the show it’s just a bit too much.
Huh, FWIW I liked the new episode.
I’ve always kinda wondered why they decided to make it so clear that the show takes place in real-time though. In the (admittedly, increasingly unlikely) scenario that they end up getting renewed for a fifth year, its gonna be tough to write around the fact that the characters will be in their fifth year at a Community college. Seems like a no brainer just to establish early on that a season corresponds to something much less then a single school year.
Ditto. Seemed like the same great show to me.
I just saw it on NBC.com and I thought it was good. Maybe it wasn’t perfect, but it felt like Community to me.
FYI Ratings were up a tick. They were better than most 30 Rocks which aired in that slot. There is buzz for a Season 5.
Buzz after the overnight ratings for a single, long delayed episode are in? That’s not a little premature.
If new people tuned in to give community a chance, I’d hate to think that was the episode they saw.
The show wasn’t terrible and I’m not willing to declare the show dead or anything yet. Season openers haven’t been great. But it felt more like community fan fiction than a real episode. Sort of cramming all the basic elements from the history of the show to sort of mimic what the show was, rather than really feeling like the show.
The “abed is crazy” stuff got tiring really fast. I’m always a little eye rolly when they focus too much on Abed’s craziness, but it’s forgiven if they actually use it to do something funny. The show failed to do that this time, so a whole third or so of the episode fizzled pretty hard.
I’m still optimistic they’ll improve as the season goes on, but “fan fiction trying to reverse engineer elements of the show to make a plausible community episode” seems like an accurate description of the feel.
The Halloween episode was a lot better than the previous week. The tone still feels different but it worked better this week. Who else was expecting Chang to show up at the end?
Yeah, I liked this better than last week. It was jarring to see the Halloween episode on Valentines Day. At this rate, the Christmas episode should be, what, mid-April?
Took me until after the episode ended to figure out Troy and Abed’s costumes. And when I did, it was a real light-bulb moment. Duh!
Calvin and Hobbes! Can’t believe it took me so long.
This one was better. The timing still isn’t the same, but it’s closer.
A definite improvement, though it still lacked a laugh-out-loud moment for me.
Community is one of my favorite shows and it’s never been one of those laugh-out-loud shows.
Community has been one of my top 5 shows since it debuted. But these recent two episodes just haven’t held my attention very well. I’m not feeling it.
Second episode with minimal Chang. That alone makes it an improvement over past seasons.
But even aside from that, I liked the new episode. Britta running around in the ham costume alone probably got three or so laughs out of me.
Yeah, me, too. I got that Troy was a tiger, but Abed was, who? Some random anime character? A movie character? I didn’t get it at all.
Halfway through the episode, I got it. :smack:
I liked the previous week’s episode better (this week it seemed that Troy turned into “random dumb guy” instead of the usual Troy, for instance), but they both seemed a little forced.
Did anyone else think that the ham costume was a reference to To Kill a Mockingbird? (FYI, it was not.) And I didn’t get the impression that Troy was supposed to be dumb, but just innocent and naive.