Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

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I just hope this episode is completely vanilla and accessible... or else they may cancel the show.

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Oh, definitely. I'll only like it if the ratings are higher because EYEBALLS. I'll DVR it now and wait for the overnights to come in before deciding to watch or not.

Just kidding! I'm capable of independent thought, so my enjoyment of TV programming isn't based on how many other people's eyeballs tune in.

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#sixseasonsandamovieandplentyofeyeballs

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You joke but if people tune in and don't like the basic concept of the show, it's likely that at least 300,000 people will change the channel. Understand that THIS is the only factor in at least 3,000,000 people watching Community tonight. It's not a laughing matter.

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"This card gives you $5 dollar foot longs for life." Was the "for free" part supposed to be implicit or was the joke that he would still be paying for them.

Overall a meh episode.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

The joke was that he was still paying.

I liked the look everyone gave Britta after her late comment about writing a paper on Katrina dogs.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Not sure why, but I didn't like this episode. Maybe I'm still thinking about how awesome last week's show was.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

As always some very clever, subtle bits throughout the episode. I'm hopeful we'll get a sixth season, but if this is the end, I like how they're going out so far.

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Says the guy who still watches Glee.

Can't wait for this one. Hope it doesn't suck like the past two.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

talk about coitus interruptus... er, I mean the ending of the episode.

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:lol:

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Got a 0.8. Series low. Yeah, guess that Gi Joe episode turned off people....

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

I somehow doubt the GI Joe turned off anyone that watched this show regularly beforehand :lol:

That said the new D&D episode and this one did nothing for me, hope the show doesn't go out on a low note.

Man everything was down last night, even Big Bang Theory (used to get like a 5.4 all the time, now a 4.6). Wonder if that's just standard for this time of year (it's light out until like 8:30 here) or what was going on.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

If ANYTHING I think they lost about 200,000 viewers from last week who tuned in and tuned out when they realized this wasn't an animated episode.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

It dropped in the demo (as did TBBT, so no excuses!).

Oh well. It was a fun ride. First Two Seasons were fantastic.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Yeah seems like there was a big ol demo drop for everything not called Scandal last night.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

I'll have to reserve judgment on this week's episode until we see how it plays out next episode. I enjoyed a good bit of it, but there was a lot that fell flat. The first problem I had is either Abed's character is completely played out, or he just doesn't work without Troy. I really disliked him running around trying to make a story out of anything. I get what they were going for, but the tone was way off. The second problem is that the "save Greendale" thing never really developed the way I thought it would this season, so the notion that they had done their jobs so competently that they had nothing left to do seemed totally manufactured. This season really was just about coming up with the flimsiest excuse possible to get the characters back together without any intention of telling any kind of big picture story. That's fine, but when they try to pay off said non-story, it means nothing.

Things I liked:
- Starburns firing up some Dave Matthews
- The Greendale board members. Those guys always make me smile.
- The dean having a break down in his office. If nothing else, this season completely salvaged the dean's character for me.
- Annie's buried treasure dance.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Remember those prophetic videos Abed made in season one? The full videos were posted on the fake Greendale site five years ago.

http://www.greendalecommunitycollege...pt/index.shtml

Watch the My Hobo Days video. Focus on 2:30. Prepare to have your mind blown!

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

-eek- I'm still expecting the ol' switcharoo, but it's going to be crazy if that's what happens.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Gotta wonder how much longer network television can hang on to their current business model considering that every day seems to bring a new low for viewership.

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Why hasn't someone posted a gif of this?

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YouTube okay?

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hYnYFV5Im4g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/20...if?w=650&h=365

http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/20...ce-2.gif?w=650

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

The East Coast and Mid West suffered brutally cold winters this year. This past week was the first time I had seen temperate, sunny conditions since the Fall. No one wants to watch television with that happening. Sitcoms and comedies are mostly viewed as skippable, disposable content. Missing an episode or two doesn't really impact the enjoyment of future episodes.

As for the episode itself, it didn't do much for me.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Well done.

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:( And I was looking forward to having my mind blown.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

was Sam Elliot in this last night?

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Uh... no. But he was on P&R.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

oh, i guess my mom was confused. thanks.

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Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

I thought this episode was pretty awful. I didn't laugh once and I found the idea of Subway buying Greendale and making it a Subway college more stupid than anything.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Not really.

McDonalds' corporate training center is named Hamburger University. Why wouldn't Subway want a similar training facility for employees?

http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/co...niversity.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_University

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

This was the worst episode of Community I've seen, the caveat being that I bailed on last season a few episodes in.

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Good point, I live in Florida, it got down to a crisp 65 last night.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Let's do an episode about the show not having any drama and how boring that is.

But won't that make a boring episode?

Exactly!

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Adjusted up to 0.9

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I really liked this episode. The first non-gimmicky episode I've enjoyed since Troy left. A lot of really subtle jokes in this one but the one that really got me was when they showed Chang's notepad and it just said 'tomato'. They can still bring it with that character at times.

Looking forward to next week, I'm expecting a Goonies themed finale.


It was the first nice night of the spring. I had no desire to watch TV last night. That could very well be the reason.

Re: Community - "Basic Story" - 4/10/14
 

Pretty boring episode for me, I hope next week has a good payoff. I really dislike Jeff/Britta together too; I know a few of us commented on it before in an earlier episode, so I really hope it doesn't happen even if it was the reason all of this started.