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ATF487 said:
One reference I wish it had: the predator handshake for when Jeff and Troy saw each other.
Yeah, i was waiting for this after Troy said "you son of a bitch" but it didn't happen. Anyway, great episode, one of the best.
 
I had to look this up, but proms are not common, but not that uncommon either, they can happen at Colleges in North America. It probably depends on regions maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prom

It's not a dance per se like highschools, but a formal gathering for a banquet, dancing is not common.
 
Wait, now it all makes sense.

OF COURSE a forum full of videogame nerds would prefer the quiet, sorta screwed up and not sexually confident girl over the women who portrays her.

Just joking. Sorta.
 
Zilch said:
Wait, now it all makes sense.

OF COURSE a forum full of videogame nerds would prefer the quiet, sorta screwed up and not sexually confident girl over the women who portrays her.

Just joking. Sorta.
Being sexually confident is one thing, but take every opportunity to advertise how sexy and sexual you are screams slut, and no that's not typically a great thing. But if you dig, more power to you.
 
Medalion said:
I had to look this up, but proms are not common, but not that uncommon either, they can happen at Colleges in North America. It probably depends on regions maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prom

It's not a dance per se like highschools, but a formal gathering for a banquet, dancing is not common.
A Prom is where HS kids ruins their life after getting drunk and having sex w/o a comdom.
 
Zilch said:
Wait, now it all makes sense.

OF COURSE a forum full of videogame nerds would prefer the quiet, sorta screwed up and not sexually confident girl over the women who portrays her.

Just joking. Sorta.
Alison Brie isn't portrayed as merely sexually confident in that article, but rather as an all-out slut.
 
That's true, I didn't take into account that women who have multiple sex partners are "sluts" and should be castigated by society.
 
NomarTyme said:
A Prom is where HS kids ruins their life after getting drunk and having sex w/o a comdom.
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Zilch said:
Wait, now it all makes sense.

OF COURSE a forum full of videogame nerds would prefer the quiet, sorta screwed up and not sexually confident girl over the women who portrays her.

Just joking. Sorta.

Zilch said:
That's true, I didn't take into account that women who have multiple sex partners are "sluts" and should be castigated by society.

A couple spot-on posts.
 
Zilch said:
Wait, now it all makes sense.

OF COURSE a forum full of videogame nerds would prefer the quiet, sorta screwed up and not sexually confident girl over the women who portrays her.

Just joking. Sorta.


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I'd still nail and marry Alison Brie in a heartbeat. We'd make some awesome Jewish babies.

It does bug me that she sort of asserts the stereotype that middle/upper-class Jewish girls are super slutty.
 
Jesus, what an incredible episode. My wife and I just watched it.

Amazing.

It felt like it should have been the season finale, though. That was how you leave a show for a hiatus.

Also, how much time did it take to clean up the mess they made for this episode? I'm assuming some of the outside stuff was CG, but they really messed up that school set.
 
I bet if it were a guy boasting about how many women he's laid in his prime, you'd all want to shake his hand/pat his back and call him THE man! :|

Loved the episode. Britta and Jeff are awesome together.
 
Oh good god, don't turn this thread into a pro sexuality men vs women slut debate

Just enjoy the show, and the actors. I didn't mean this to turn into an accusation thread. I am not calling Alison a slut. I clearly find her attractive like the rest of you but she's not my kinda chick, and the fact I don't like her more, no need to pick on the nerd stereotype. It was a joke after all.
 
The show has two styles, the grounded episodes and then the over-the-top movie-homage themed ones.

I'm sure if they had their way, and budget, they would do these over the top ones often.
 
Just read the Brie article. Gained some respect in my eyes.

Honestly, I had very little affinity for the actress beforehand, but I dig her honesty on this particular topic. Most girls would be ashamed of expressing those kinds of thoughts and acts in such public manner. She treats it very casually, as I believe it should be.

Inanna said:
I bet if it were a guy boasting about how many women he's laid in his prime, you'd all want to shake his hand/pat his back and call him THE man! :|

Loved the episode. Britta and Jeff are awesome together.
Weird double standard that's not disappearing anytime soon, unfortunately.
 
Medalion said:
The show has two styles, the grounded episodes and then the over-the-top movie-homage themed ones.

I'm sure if they had their way, and budget, they would do these over the top ones often.

I dunno, a lot of the being able to accept an episode like "Warfare..." is that we know the characters already and accept them through those more grounded (and that's still a pretty relative descriptor) episodes. I think they're in a place where they pull both off with aplomb, and hope they don't abandon one for the other.
 
I'm changing my mind about Modern Warfare, the more I watch it, the more I love it, it is genius, but I don't think it is my top fave episode of Community, but it does fucking rock nonetheless.
 
I watched "Modern Warfare" tonight. Just amazing. Rivals, and possibly surpasses, the Halloween and Christmas episodes as the best of the season.
 
finally caught up (since the April Fools ep)

the latest one was the best for me so far. Senior Chan ripping on Chow Yun Fat then top it off with Golden Pistols :lol
 
Just watched.

I enjoyed the episode.....but it was too different from the rest of the series that had been pretty close to real life, sort of. The chicken mafia also took this show too far into dream land. The series started with the day-to-day of a community college. Now it's 100% movie references. Essentially, as part of the series, it was very weak. As a stand alone "event" it was good. This is sort of like the musical episode shows bring in during their 6th season to raise ratings.

Also, the pre-episode hype was ridiculous.

As Dacvak put it
"The show, itself, it getting wackier. It's turning into Scrubs. Scrubs is a great show, but I definitely liked my Community more when it was more like Arrested Development."

I agree.

Put me into the "parks and rec" is the best sitcom this year boat.


I must admit however, I would LOVE to be able to partake in that in real life. And chang was awesome.
 
jamesinclair said:
Just watched.

I enjoyed the episode.....but it was too different from the rest of the series that had been pretty close to real life, sort of. The chicken mafia also took this show too far into dream land. The series started with the day-to-day of a community college. Now it's 100% movie references.
But the underlying truths, that the cafeteria does one thing well and it's undersupplied, or that priority registration is a big deal, are true...

As Dacvak put it
"The show, itself, it getting wackier. It's turning into Scrubs. Scrubs is a great show, but I definitely liked my Community more when it was more like Arrested Development."
I love AD too, but, are we talking about the show where they sent Buster, GOB, and Michael to Iraq and they found Saddam's many doubles and a Homefill fake warhead? Or the show where they had a long riff on the Graduate? Maybe you're talking about the show that did some truly mindblowing reference jokes like Henry Winkler literally jumping over a shark?

I love AD, but I simply don't get how it was less wacky than Community.
 
That was an awesome episode. Normally I dislike high-concept episodes of sitcoms. The "what if?" machine from Futurama and the movie inspired eps from NewsRadio seemed stupid the first time I watched them but they've become my favorites of the series on repeat watchings. But I liked this episode right out of the gate.

Medalion said:
I kinda get what yer saying, but I like to be diplomatic about it. I am more likely to like Annie as a person, than Alison Brie as a person... Alison tries kinda too hard to flaunt and tease her sexuality. This is probably another reason why I switched from liking Annie in the beginning to Britta.

LOL. As I've theorized, the reason people like Annie is her extreme hotness coupled with a innocent prudishness bordering on full blown aversion to sex. Britta, a character who displays a level of confidence and control with her sexuality is too intimidating to your average gaffer so they go for the attractive but frigid girl who won't pressure you into actual sex.


recklessmind said:
Jeff waking up to an empty campus... that wasn't just a nod to 28 Days Later... it's killing me... what other movie(s) was that from? I know that's been done a bunch of times before.

Another 28 Days reference was Starburns saying they can't just eat sugar and need to eat some protein.
 
mac said:
LOL. As I've theorized, the reason people like Annie is her extreme hotness coupled with a innocent prudishness bordering on full blown aversion to sex. Britta, a character who displays a level of confidence and control with her sexuality is too intimidating to your average gaffer so they go for the attractive but frigid girl who won't pressure you into actual sex.
Team Britta is made up of people with healthy views on sexuality and gender relations, FTW.

I would not, however, put 'Alison Brie' (the public persona we see, whether accurate or not) in the same boat as Britta. Annie's one extreme but 'Brie' is the opposite extreme, defining her life through sexual experiences. Anyone trying to say that if you don't like 'Brie' must like Annie or vice-versa is presenting a false choice. The middle ground, more or less Britta's position, is where it's at. To use your terminology, she's confident and in control of her sexuality, whereas Annie is afraid of it and 'Brie' is controlled by it.
 
The whole Team Annie and Team Britta feuds were cute at first, but now these are turning into insults on people's personalities and their tastes in women.
 
potentially a stupid question, and my first post in CommunityGAF, but do pistols like the one in the show actually exist? Because I want one right now.
 
For a second there (when the kid Jeff talks to references "the prize! The prize!" I thought Jeff might go through the episode not knowing what "the prize" was. I wonder if that would've changed anything, where you don't even know what you're fighting for.
 
If Jeff never found out what the prize was and then he would have no point and no motivation to do anything in this episode and easily get tagged out.
 
jamesinclair said:
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As Dacvak put it
"The show, itself, it getting wackier. It's turning into Scrubs. Scrubs is a great show, but I definitely liked my Community more when it was more like Arrested Development."
What? AD was WAY wackier than scrubs.
 
Lone_Prodigy said:
For a second there (when the kid Jeff talks to references "the prize! The prize!" I thought Jeff might go through the episode not knowing what "the prize" was. I wonder if that would've changed anything, where you don't even know what you're fighting for.

I actually had this vibe about the episode too.
 
Medalion said:
The whole Team Annie and Team Britta feuds were cute at first, but now these are turning into insults on people's personalities and their tastes in women.
I never take the feud personally, no matter how seemingly volatile it might get sometimes.

Even if the insults are intentionally below the belt, the back and forth amuses me all the same. No need take offense imo
 
Kodiak said:
potentially a stupid question, and my first post in CommunityGAF, but do pistols like the one in the show actually exist? Because I want one right now.

They do exist. It's the Tippman TPX.

tippmann_tpx_pistol_001.jpg


They only get 8 shots before you have to reload. My brother owned an earlier model and it was a fun little paint gun.

The one Chang uses later is also a Tippman.
 
mac said:
They do exist. It's the Tippman TPX.

http://www.buymilsim.com/i//tippmann_tpx_pistol_001.jpg

They only get 8 shots before you have to reload. My brother owned an earlier model and it was a fun little paint gun.

The one Chang uses later is also a Tippman.
So, wow, at over $200 per student, assuming basically everyone in the school got in on the game, that is a metric buttload of money. I'm totally OK with that.

I had no idea what brand the guns were, but yeah, you could totally tell Chang's guns were just the same pistols, but painted gold.

Do Tippmans really have optional lights and/or laser targeting?
 
Jebuss said:
Can someone please tell me from which Ep. this is:

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It's killing me, because I can't find it in any of the 23 episodes o_O
This is from episode 10, Environmental Science. Otherwise known as the musical episode to me where Troy and Abed sing Somewhere Out There from An American Tail.

What episode did Alison get dressed up in a cheerleading outfit? (See costanza's avatar)

Investigative Journalism, also known as the episode that Jack Black appears in (and often considered one of the weaker or controversial episodes for fans).



Hey guys check out this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYZC7zMCPg&playnext_from=TL&videos=4Chg7-15H6o&feature=sub

It's from the set when they were filming Modern Warfare, just hanging with some of the cast. Which can also be found on the NBC Community site as well.
 
The cheerleading outfit in the Jack Black episode... wasnt that Jack Black's fake memory that he made up from Spanish class? Britt and Annie in cheerleading outfits getting into a fight?
 
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