Saturday, November 27, 2010

Things that are AWESOME part 1

The show Community is amazing.

Community has been silently delivering one of the best seasons ever. I say silently because in terms of ratings, it usually trails behind its NBC comedy brethren.

The episodes have had been pretty fantastical lately. Community takes place at Greendale Community College where no one's life has quite turned out how they expected. Rather than generate jokes that are exclusively sarcastic or deprecating -- the writers have expanded the narrative to incorporate more fantastical story-lines. Writers have worked in shoot-outs, secret gardens, a modern day space-race, and a zombie apocalypse (set to the music of ABBA, of course) and they are nailing it!

Now the holiday episode is nigh and Community rises to the challenge with: an entire episode using stop animation (à la the Rankin/Bass holiday cartoons)! Observe!


AMAZING!

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More "Community" clips
--"the funnier side of chloroforming someone ("my whole brain is crying")
--Pretty much any time Troy and Abed rap-- it's comedic gold (see the "Anthropology rap" they do with Betty White or the original "Spanish Rap" that won the hearts and minds of millions).