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Post by Mod City on Dec 10, 2010 20:43:01 GMT -5
The stop-motion episode was pretty good, but I'm glad the show isn't always like that. And it was kind of heavy again, not a lot of laugh-out-loud moments. A lot more knowing-smile moments.
* I actually thought Pierce was really good this week, maybe it was him wobbling around as a little bear, but I thought he was just right.
* Chang was the snowman! Nice to see he's still around. Somewhere.
* Abed's story in the end is sad. That's all.
* I liked that a DVD for season one of Lost was a metaphor for, what was it, "unfulfilled expectations?" Something like that.
I think the show is on hiatus for a while, isn't it? Anyone know when it's back?
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 11, 2010 20:23:38 GMT -5
oh no! i didn't know that. i hope it isn't gone for long.
i agree, mod, it was kind of a heavy episode - especially for a stop motion christmas story. there were some funny parts to it- chang as the snowman was great, and i hoped he would have been in more scenes. i think the funniest out of all of them was shirley as a baby doll. but you are right, pierce was just right. how funny was it when he comes in the train car where abed is, zipping up?
a sad storyline just seems to be even sadder when it is about abed. but it had a happy ending, even if that last song was a little off.
i loved it when the bah humbugs came to take jeff away - "here i go to get laaaaaaaid!"
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Post by KyrieEleison on Dec 11, 2010 21:18:06 GMT -5
The more I watch the episode, the more I like it. The characters were so well made - even if some of the lips were a little weird-looking (Annie), and it looked like there were some thumbprints on Abed's eyelids when he closed his eyes at the end. What I loved best about it, though, were the little touches that made it awesome (e.g., the fact that whenever Duncan popped in and out, you could see the study room and the live-action cast's reflection in the TV at the end).
I actually love the last song, and immediately found it on YouTube to put on my iPod. Now all I need is a Christmas Pterodactyl to add to my Christmas decorations. Please, someone tell me where to find a small pterodactyl/pteranodon figure so I can put a wreath around its neck and put it in my tree.
Oh, and the Lost joke was that it represented "lack of payoff." I think it'll be back in January, after the Christmas break.
(Sol/Santagroupie, I just came to that conclusion this year, too, and then I saw it under your avatar. Santa only cares if you're useful to him, and I'm sure Donner only cared that his son had run away because he didn't have a kid to push around anymore.)
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Post by solgroupie on Dec 12, 2010 16:39:32 GMT -5
i know! though i loved watching rudolph as a kid and i still do, that version of santa always bothered me. he seemed to be a grumpy old jerk until the 24th. and donner may have taught rudolph the ropes in being a reindeer, but otherwise he wasn't much better. boo!
that is so funny that you put that song on your ipod! you really noticed a lot of things i totally missed. i'll have to watch it again.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Dec 13, 2010 0:21:43 GMT -5
Keep an eye out for Snow Chang, too. I keep hearing that he pops up every so often in the Winter Wonderland, but all I've been able to find are generic snowmen.
In fact, I'm off to watch it again, too, to see if I can find him.
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Post by Mod City on Dec 21, 2010 2:24:22 GMT -5
Finally got to check out Beginner Pottery, the season one episode with the sailing class and Jeff flipping out over pottery. I laughed out loud at the boat rolling past the classroom window. It's also an episode that makes me like Chevy Chase as Pierce. He's been better than he gets credit for on this show. He gets a nice one-on-one with Jeff before he pilots his canoe into the street, and for once he's not a complete goofball-with-wisdom. He's goofy, but he gets it. If that makes any sense. Lots of good stuff on the first season DVD. I recommend it
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Post by siamesesin on Dec 21, 2010 9:12:58 GMT -5
The commentaries are fun too. Lots of good extras.
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Post by solgroupie on Jan 22, 2011 2:57:31 GMT -5
so glad to have new episodes back on thursday nights! i just love this show more and more. the only thing i just can't get on board with is jeff and annie. i don't want them together. i'm not sure i want any of them together, not even jeff and britta, whom i thought were going to ross and rachel it. and how cool was it that theo was in it as shirley's ex-husband?? i always wondered what happened to him. he did a pretty great job, i thought, and i hope they will bring him back for more episodes. i loved that little exchange he had with jeff about his sweater "his dad gave him." nice. i'm glad the night between shirley and chang finally was brought out in the open - now we get to wait and see who the father is of her baby. as long as we get more chang. and now we know he smells like bandaids.
and i'm glad that pierce is finally out of the wheelchair - i don't know if chevy had committed himself to something else during the latter part of last year, but he barely seemed to be a part of the group. and troy...he is fast becoming my favorite. what was it jeff called abed...? brown jamie lee curtis? wow, i laughed.
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Post by Mod City on Jan 23, 2011 23:35:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm glad it's back as well. Great to see Chang front and center for a lot of the episode was awesome. Him up on the cabinet like the Chesire Cat made me laugh, and Jeff's description of him was classic. Chang even seemed to love it! Malcolm Jamal Warner was also a fun addition. He definitely doesn't have to stay away, he brings a funny vibe in his reactions to the group. Not much Abed this week, though that can be good. He can get overused sometimes. I'm really happy I watched Beginner Pottery the other week. Rich made a return and looking back I'm glad I already knew him as a character before seeing this episode. A bit of lucky viewing there. Annie describing him as older because he has a landline and uses the world "album" got a big reaction from the group of people I was watching with. Yeah, we all do that
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Post by solgroupie on Jan 24, 2011 16:23:23 GMT -5
that's a good point, mod. i think it is easy to over use abed because he is so funny and can play off any character so well. and i hope rich will continue to mix in with the group because i love how riled he makes jeff. that last scene where jeff makes that heartfelt plea to him to teach him to be a better person was great.
and how could i forget to mention chang up on top of the cabinet? i love how bizarre he is.
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Post by solgroupie on Jan 29, 2011 15:01:34 GMT -5
not a bad episode - it was interesting to have a kind of pierce/annie show. but i liked it. just when you think pierce is a nice guy, he does something like ruin annie's anti-drug play, lame as it was. but it cracked me up - especially when the sugared up kids started pelting everyone with baseballs. and chang coming in to save the second act was awesome. a little too realistic and very funny. and maybe it got him one step closer to at last joining the study group.
but the funniest part to me was jeff and britta's nephew. it was so wrong on so many levels, but hilarious.
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Post by Mod City on Feb 4, 2011 15:35:35 GMT -5
Wow, dark episode this week, but I really, really liked it. I thought Chevy brought the heavy this week and was surprisingly powerful as an evil guy. I recoiled at his comments about Neil just like the rest of the study group did. Jeff looking mortified at telling Pierce "that's way over the line" was really quite a moment, but Pierce just keeps laying into Neil. In the end, Neil comes back and all is well, for the most part.
• I loved the voice-over. Gave it that epic feeling.
• Chang was underutilized, but I was still glad to see him participate.
• The D&D references were great. I played a (very) little in high school, so I had some idea of how the jokes worked.
• Annie and Abed's character's love scene. Great stuff.
• Britta feeling for the gnomes and breaking down upon the "death" of Kyle.
I didn't laugh constantly at this episode. I marveled at how much I actually cared about what was going on. It can be such a good show.
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Post by solgroupie on Feb 5, 2011 2:42:29 GMT -5
wow, this was a great one. very intense. i felt so terrible for neil, but i liked how it ended with he and pierce. i agree pretty much with everything mod said about it. the scene with abed and annie was hilarious. same thing for abed and britta. but what about chang's get up? wow! i wish he had lived for the rest of the game. and the voiceover was great - i loved how it ended with it being the cleaning woman. i might have to watch this one again.
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Post by solgroupie on Feb 13, 2011 23:22:11 GMT -5
kind of a low key episode, but not a bad one. i liked that they didn't try to go for some major unrequited love for VD day. i like abed and troy more and more with every show - how they handled liking the same girl (like women who work for libraries actually look like that?) and how they ended up together anyway. you know it would have ended the same way if she had gone with abed.
brita with the woman who was "friends with ellen" was really funny. it always cracks me up to see brita get taken down from her high moral horse occasionally. but the funniest part had to be when annie actually went for it when someone yelled at her and brita to kiss.
jeff's text to them was pretty sappy for him, but it gave the warm-happy-didn't-make-you-want-to-puke ending. i love how chang forced his way in - breaking jeff's lamp immediately, using his toothbrush? - inviting a party over while he moved in with his hermit crabs - ending up in the trash bin - it was all good. i wonder if this means he will be staying with jeff for awhile - i hope so, because there are LOTS of comic possibilities there. just seeing jeff carrying him inside and tucking him in on the couch was great.
the thing with pierce was kind of disturbing, and i don't mean just because andy dick guest starred in this one. seeing him passed out on a park bench was more grim than funny for me, which means i hope they have a successful (and hilarious) intervention with him soon.
EDIT: i forgot about their argument over "bnl" or bare naked ladies. that was one of the funniest parts of the whole damn show.
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Post by Mod City on Feb 16, 2011 12:57:33 GMT -5
Yeah, the scene at the end with Pierce on the bench was darker than I expected. And judging by the previews I've seen for this week, he ends up in the hospital. This is a brave show, I'm looking forward to where they take this (although I can do without any more Andy Dick cameos). Overall it was pretty good. Chang coming over for the party was great. I cracked up at his image through the peephole. I don't like bringing this up, but the rumblings of cancellation have begun again. www.examiner.com/comedy-in-national/tv-ratings-community-may-be-on-the-bubble-and-here-s-why-you-should-careI can't believe their numbers are that bad. What on earth is wrong with TV viewers these days?
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