Community returns March 15th!

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Finally!

Nathan loves Community :)

After what happened on my last post, Nathan Fillion showed more Community love from his Twitter account. Nathan's actually doing more promotion for the show than NBC itself! And I just LOVE it when my fandoms collide.

When fandoms collide

No Cougar Town or Community midseason (or Six Seasons and a Movie!)

Just a few days ago it was reported that NBC is benching Community from its midseason lineup. They say it's to accomodate 30 Rock coming back, which is the good news, but NBC decided to bench Community while keeping on Whitney, a freshman comedy show that hasn't resonated well to critics or the audience. Or at least the Human Beings hate it (is that what we're calling Community fans?). If they didn't before, they do now.

TBBT vs Community

This is why Twitter is awesome. So it started with @joelmchale promoting Community's premiere by joking about their competitions.

To which @simonhelberg replied:

Critics Choice Awards nominations

Yay for Community!!! The show is nominated for Best Comedy Series while Joel McHale and Danny Pudi are nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor (respectively) in Comedy Series. About time the show and the actors are recognized at award shows!

Community: A Fistful of Paintballs

[NOTE: I know I said my 1,000th post will be about my graduation but I just can't ignore the awesomeness that is Community. At least for right now, this is bigger than just a celebration of me not failing college.]

Anyways, I just can't express how much I love "A Fistful of Paintballs" through words. It was a highly anticipated episode and it delivered. "Modern Warfare" was definitely the best episode of season 1, so when they said they were gonna do another paintball episode, they know it has to be good. It has to be really, really good. And they did it. I love the Western theme, making it a completely different episode.

Loved tonight's Community!

And I'm not the only one:

[From @MichaelAusiello]

Community has been really strong this year, and this episode might be my favorite. Although the finale might be pretty damn awesome (Modern Warfare II!!). But this one was definitely my favorite thus far! Seriously, this show must be nominated or win some awards this year and next year! Best comedy on TV this season!

TV Line: Community Showers Cougar Town With Love

The Community-Cougar Town mutual admiration society was taken to a whole new level Thursday when NBC’s genre-bending sitcom once again broke convention and gave a shout-out — make that 12! — to its ABC counterpart. Which begs the question: How in the world did Community‘s Powers That Be get this cross-network lovefest past the Peacock bigwigs?

In case you missed it, this week’s episode showcased a subdued Abed (played by the incomparable Danny Pudi) relaying his personal journey through the world of Cougar Town fandom to Jeff (Joel McHale). The tale included name-dropping the series roughly a dozen times and even mentioning its star Courteney Cox by name. And this isn’t the first time the two programs have shown a little affection for the other. Abed declared his love for C.T. at least twice in the past, and C.T. has reciprocated.

NBC renews Community!!

MARCH 17, 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Breaking: NBC Renews The Office, Community and Parks and Recreation

"I am so pleased to renew these three outstanding comedies which are all at the top of their game creatively," said NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt.

"Along with [the already-renewed] 30 Rock, they represent the best of what the NBC comedy brand stands for in terms of originality, wit, and sophistication. The Office continues to fire on all cylinders on the most competitive night of television Parks and Recreation has come into its own this season as the rightful companion to The Office; and Community is one of the freshest comedies on any network and a solid foundation for Thursday night." It looks like some of that Irish luck is rubbing off on our favorite Greendale/Pawnee peeps today: NBC has renewed bubble comedies Community and Parks and Recreation for a third and fourth season respectively. In less surprising news, the Peacock has also picked up The Office for an eighth season — its first without Steve Carell.

Stolen from here. Well it wasn't the biggest surprise, they have been strong this season. And I just realized that I'm wearing my Greendale Community College t-shirt right now! :)

Now I'm waiting for Chuck!

Firefly mention on last night's Community

As if I could love Troy and Abed even more?

[Captain Mal looking for the scene]

[and recognizing the love]

TWoP 10: Biggest Golden Globe and SAG Award Snubs

Fuck yeah Community!

This week kicked off the start of awards season with nominations being announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for their Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild for their SAG Awards.And while there were some shockers in the television categories (Piper Perabo?! Hot in Cleveland?!!), there were also a lot of old standbys, meaning that many deserving shows and actors got left out in the cold. Here are the most egregious snubs from both awards bodies:

1. Community
It seems impossible that this consistently funny network comedy is invisible to the voters. It has one of the best ensemble casts in comedy and not one of them was nominated. We know it is way easier to just keep checking off 30 Rock and The Office on the ballots, but sometimes we wish voters actually made an effort to watch a season from start to finish. From the paintball to the tent city to the zombie Halloween to the awesome stop-motion Christmas special, Community has something for everyone... except, apparently, fans of Hot in Cleveland.

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BuddyTV: TV's 100 Sexiest Women of 2010

Here's the full list. Thought Olivia Wilde should be way higher up the list. And Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan should be there somewhere!

#1 Yvonne Strahovski, Chuck – As Sarah Walker

#3 Christina Hendricks, Mad Men – As Joan Harris

#5 Kaley Cuoco, The Big Bang Theory – As Penny

I heart Community!

[Easter egg at the end of Community's "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"]

Christmas episode, trying to find the meaning of Christmas, can be too cliche. That's totally not Community's style! So they made it stop motion animation. They changed the characters into Christmas characters: Jeff-in-the-Box, Britta Bot, Troy Soldier, BallerAnnie, Teddy Pierce and Baby Doll Shirley. The episode was all about Abed and his amazing view of the world.

I just LOVED the episode! Because it was stop motion animation. Because it was Willy Wonka themed. Because it was about Christmas. Because Community is just plain awesome. This is why people (award academies) need to realize that this show is one of the best this season! They're so unique.

Here's a nice piece about the episode:

Love, Laughs & Lotsa Singing! Community's "Unstoppable Christmas" Is Chock-Full of Awesome
Thu., Dec. 9, 2010 12:45 PM PST by Megan Masters

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Best. Episode. Ever.

If you're not completely smitten with Community by now, well, what is wrong with you? Laugh! (Cougar Town, anyone?) We pinkie promise that after tuning into tonight's stop-motion animated Christmas extravaganza, you'll be bursting at the seams with Greendale love and holiday spirit.

BuddyTV: TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2010

Here are some from the shows that I watch or played by people I like:

#89 James Roday, Psych – As Shawn Spencer

E!'s Top 10 TV Comedies of 2010

List can be seen here.

Modern Family is at the top, which I guess can be justified; but I think Glee should definitely not be second! The show isn't even that funny. Or that good! Community and The Big Bang Theory are definitely funnier than Glee and should rank higher. But E! does love Glee for some reason...

Community = #1!!!

The Year in TV
By Emily Nussbaum Published Dec 5, 2010

A scene from Community's upcoming episode, "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas."   (Photo: Courtesy of NBC) A scene from Community's upcoming episode, "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas."   (Photo: Courtesy of NBC)

It’s conventional wisdom that the antenna of a TV top ten—the selection that gets the fat print and the pretty illustration—should be a drama. It must be cinematic; it must be dark. It should almost certainly be on cable, probably with someone named David in the show-runner slot. So when I choose the network sitcom Community as No. 1, I’m not saying it doesn’t have serious competition: I couldn’t even fit Sons of Anarchy or Men of a Certain Age onto this list, each of which, were I in a different mood today, might rise right to the top. Cable still hosts the most ambitious television experiments, providing a place where oddball art can find a niche audience (and one that buys DVDs).

And yet it’s worth pointing out that smack in the middle of network, there it is: this auteurist sitcom, slamming it out of the park each week of its second season. Half-hour comedies are as potent an art form as one-hour dramas, and at the moment, the schedule is studded with great ones (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down, Modern Family, Raising Hope, Bored to Death, Childrens Hospital, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Middle). Community is theoretically set at a community college, but it uses that conceit the way The Simpsons uses Springfield, as a jumping-off point for just about anything. The show explodes TV conventions while working within them, like the boldest meta-TV from Monty Python’s Flying Circus through 30 Rock. And it’s consistently hilarious, in large part because creator Dan Harmon has such a strong, icy grip on his characters and his idiosyncratic ideas about what’s funny. This season, Community pulled off an action-packed (and sexy) Halloween zombie episode, a self-referential riff on Charlie Kaufman–style self-referentiality, and the single best spiritual trampoline sequence ever. In a competitive environment for comedy, Community is this moment’s top dog.

Community - Cast talks "Modern Warfare" Episode (Paley Center Interview)

I just love how Dan is like "don't fight for our show if we're getting canceled because we suck!"

I love these guys, I love Community.

Betty White Schools Community Kids in Season Premiere

Betty White's quest for world Hollywood domination rages on, and this time NBC's Community is the proud recipient of a Golden guest spot.

The 88-year-old sensation is setting up shop in Greendale College's Anthropology Department (because Spanish was so season one) to give Jeff & Co. a run for their money.
 
And if you thought Ken Jeong's Señor Chang was wonky, get a load of Betty:

Hot in Cleveland's hot mama will play anthro professor June Bauer, a highly esteemed, if not completely off-her-rocker, addition to Greendale's already questionable teaching staff.

And something tells us that since Betty is only set for one ep (she's starring in her own series, after all), either the new area of study just ain't workin' out...or Chang's gotta step in when June loses it. But we're just spitballing here. Feel free to join us.

Community returns for a second season this fall on NBC, and you should—nay, you must—tune in. That's an order.

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Community overdrive!

[Screenshot of my Twitter page. I get too excited watching Community]

Shouldn't be on Twitter while watching Community! It's so hilarious! I love Joel McHale and I love Community. Please NBC don't ever pull the plug on this one!