Give Me The Hope
Today's the day--new Community. We'll get to hear that theme again, presaging another potential classic half hour. But what if they did it another way? Hmm.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:10 AM
Pajama Guy
"You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at ‘60 Minutes’] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”
-Jonathan Klein, former CBS Executive
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5 Comments:
After seeing you praise this show many times I finally decided to watch it. Just finished season one and the first four episodes of season two.
It is inconceivably hilarious.
I'm glad you like it. The show needs about five million more like you to be guaranteed renewal. (Though I think NBC would renew it just to tie it in a bow with a graduation.)
One thing that fascinates me is how they consciously avoid going down old paths. The original concept was a fairly conventional set-up. The primary male starts the study group to chase the primary female. He's also got a sidekick. Meanwhile, the secondary female secretly pines for the secondary male, while a tertiary male buffoonishly goes after the tertiary female.
Now (very slight spoilers) the primary two have sex but don't seem to care for each other romantically--in fact, she's become a weird, loser radical-- while his main romance is with the much younger secondary female. The secondary male's closest relationship is now with the former sidekick. The buffoonish male chases after no one but is just a weird, lonely, borderline racist while the tertiary female has a husband and a kid. Nothing has gone according to plan.
Community often parodies other shows and styles, and I think you'll notice that even more as you go along. You've also yet to see my favorite episode, though it's off-series in that it's not about the college or the study room: season three's "Remedial Chaos Theory."
Good God. You're diagramming comedy.
Good God. You're diagramming comedy.
Comedy can be as formulaic as any other type of drama.
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