Wow, this show rocks. I’m re-watching this episode on Hulu!
I was a little nervous that when Abed (as Jeff) got up, he was really Evil Abed.
I expected this episode to be more divisive because I could see it being accused of being self indulgent but I loved it and it seems mostly everyone else did too.
Nope, not me: “self-indulgent.”
I thought the premise was kind of weak, but it had a few laughs.
(Note: In general, I’m not crazy about comedies that focus on character or plot development at the expense of humour.)
Not very funny but ambitious and clever.
So will Abed have empathy now?
That was probably the least accessible episode of a TV show I’ve ever seen and that counts the television work of David Lynch. The show went too far up its own ass, and worse there weren’t enough laughs there to justify it.
I enjoyed it. At this point, ratings can’t going to soar no matter what they do. And whenever they go too accessible everyone complains that the episode is too generic. So I say, screw it and just make a show for the most die-hard fans out there.
I liked it, but you’re right. If that was someone’s first exposure to the show, they’d never watch it again.
Yea, I didn’t like it either. It seemed to be trying too hard. And the jokes were few and far between.
I liked when they were still students at a Community College, and every couple episodes weird stuff would happen to them. Now they’ve pretty much dropped the Community College premise (what was the last time we actually saw them in a classroom?) and the weird has become the point of the show.
The Dean’s good news/bad news costume was pretty funny though. And I liked that he acknowledged how bizarre it was.
There comes a point when you just have to follow your muse and screw the first-time viewer. This was one of those times. You can’t make Art and worry about a newb every second.
It was an OK episode.
I too wondered about evil Abed. Since they showed him appearing to our Abed a week or two ago I hope it wasn’t just a tease and that the writers actually have something planned out.
I didn’t like it primarily because now Abed isn’t just some kooky, Aspergersy guy who likes pop culture references – he’s genuinely insane. A room set aside for imaginary playtime is juvenile and weird, but a room set aside for imaginary playtime that you think is powered by cardboard boxes and paper towel rolls is bonafide loony. And, sadly, Troy’s got to also be somewhere past “weird” on the sanity scale, too, because he’s cheerfully along for the ride. It’s sad, I think.
And it wasn’t that funny. Well-written, I noticed, but laughs were few and far between.
How many people are really coming in for the first time to a late episode in the third season? I would at least hope if they did they would go, “None of this makes sense because I don’t know who these characters are, maybe I’ll go back and figure it out.”
I really liked the episode. I don’t really share the same complaints as the rest of you because A) I’ve seen every episode, so accessibility isn’t an issue, B) I’m used to Community doing unusual episodes, and C) Come to think of it, I generally like unusual episodes of shows.
I heard good things about Breaking Bad for years, so what the hell, I’ll tune in and see I’d it’s worth getting into. I watched the one with the fly. Easily the worst episode of the series, and it put me off watching any more for a long time.
I like the episode (probably a bit more than last week’s). Annie’s talk about science fiction is one of the best descriptions of the genre I’ve ever seen.
“There more where that didn’t come from.”
The entire episode was worth it for the effects of truth serum on Troy.
Best episode since the break.
Ridiculous premise, yes. Inspector Spacetime isn’t that funny, true. I don’t know how this episode worked so well (other than the Troy freakout which always works), but it did.
Well, this is the same guy who thought life turned into claymation in the xmas episode.