I've been watching community over and over for the past several years now, even after what pierce represented, I come back to this line of his again and again. Maybe even one of my favourite lines of the show. This has changed my perspective and even saved me from so many bad days.

It's such a simple metaphor and so streets ahead, especially coming from him to jeffery of all people.

I just love the show and this line especially.

The Shirley art is based on this Warhol of Marilyn Monroe and the others also are inspired by real world stuff

just was rewatching season one and noticed that this is troy’s go to move when he’s caught red handed 🤣 i can only recall two, the art of discourse and that end tag with jeff through the window

I found out about Community just before Yahoo brought the rights WAAAAYYYYY back in 2014. Spent all of that summer watching it. It means so much to me and helped me through A LOT in the last 12 years.

I just finished the last episode for the first time in a while and I'm still in tears. I still hope for a movie everyday and keep up with all the actors new projects. Honestly I just want to hear that the characters are happy 11 years later and I'll be content.

I'm on season 3 episode 3: competitive ecology

I noticed something that makes me love this show and episode even more. Chang is going through his own mystery noir storyline while abed mentions the original hong kong film that kickpuncher is based on. I realised chang in this episode is based off of chungking express by wkw and that's really cool! To add to this, the girl that he spends his time obsessing over also has the Faye wong haircut. That's so cool!

In the bottle episode, she said to Britta "I'll make your ass sense" but she was really saying "I'll make your ass **cents**" as in "I'm gonna crack you with a quarter." Shirley is A B confirmed

Just rewatching s4e2 Paranormal Parentage and outside Pierce's panic room, Troy whispers my fave phrase-celebre

No sweat, Boba Fett

What's your fave? Shower me with your suggest-deans.

Must be a phrase followed by a celebs name that rhymes, unless it's Britta'd.

Bonus points for episode and scene details

I'm mostly talking about the first 3 seasons, as seasons 5 and 6 while an admirable return to form with SIGNIFICANTLY reduced resources never captured the same irreverence and dry wit in combination with serious emotional stakes that drew me like moth to flame as a new fan to the first few.

Here are a few I remember or were mentioned but never got any screen time.

Garrett Lambert

Starburns

Vicki

Neil

Magnitude (POP POP)

Todd (Army guy with a weird head, decorated soldier)

Officer Cackowski (former security guard at Greendale, police officer, singer at Copera)

Richie & Carl (Greendale school board guys)

Pavel (Abed and Troy's friend, live in the dorm)

Vaughn (Britta and Annie's ex boyfriend, Band lead vocalist, frisbee scholarship)

Quendra (with a QU)

Rachel (Abed's girlfriend)

Rich (Doctor guy, good at pottery and makes Kettle corn in his garage)

Annie Kim (Asian Annie, Daniel Larusso in Karate kid theatre adaptation)

Karl, Lucas, Juergen, and Reinhold (German trios)

Courtney (pretty girl from billiards class, asked our Abed)

White Abed (Abed but employable /s)

Jenny (White Abed's girlfriend)

Koogler (Do I need to explain?)

Buddy (Wanted to join the study group, ended up joining the cool group)

Archie (Rich "kid", community college whale)

Sabrina (Blonde, pretty secretory of the Dean)

Mariah (Pretty librarian, BOOKS)

Professor Michelle (Jeff's ex-girlfriend)

Professor Duncan (Psychologist professor and temporary Save Greendale community member)

Professor Whitman (SIEZE THE DAY, debate club advisor)

Professor Sean Garrity (Professor P. Proferssorson, theater professor)

Professor Kane (Biology Professor)

Professor June (Anthropology 101 professor, tried to strangle Jeff)

Professor Cornwallis (History professor, a little slip up with a coed)

Alan Connor (Partner at Jeff's old firm)

Dean Sprek (city college Dean)

Andre Bennett (Shirley Bennett's husband)

Gobi Nadir (Abed's dad)

Gilbert (Pierce's half brother)

Rick (Subway)

Blade (Britta's ex boyfriend, works at a carnival)

William (Jeff's father)

Willy (Jeff's half brother)

Mysti (Stripper Jeff represented, and the lady Andre cheated with)

Amber (Pierce's ex step daughter)

Mr. Stone (Pierce's lawyer)

Jeremy Simmons (City College's star debator)

My gf and I watched the show for the first time recently and midway through season 1 we learned that Chevy Chase had tensions on set with some of the cast so in later seasons they basically shot most of his scenes separately from the other actors. Since we knew that we started to notice it all the time. A lot of the shots of Pierce in later seasons are him standing with/sitting next to one cast member (usually Jeff or Abed) while the others are played by stand ins with their backs turned around.

So question to long time fans - was it visible when you watched the show for the first time and had no knowledge of the tensions on set? Or is it the case of "once you see it you can't unsee it" kind of thing?

I knew nothing about the show, characters, premise - 100% blind going in. Unsurprisingly, I was super confused about WTF was happening, why did the characters have "playing card nicknames", was there really a TV show about a community college dedicated to playing paintball for an entire season. And no, the airline did not show Part 2.

Often wondered if there could have been a worst first episode as a series introduction!

In the pilot, after Jeff walks outside and realizes that he doesn’t actually have the test answers, Britta invites him to “come back upstairs and finish studying” which is weird because in later shots (like the first Halloween special) it’s clear that the study room (F) is on the first floor. Idk if she meant upstairs like the stairs to the main entrance? But people usually only say that when going up a floor, not walking up the stairs to the entryway.

Ok here's the question: who also cried when the last episode ended after their first watch?

Hot take: I don't want a movie. I want season 7 and up. I mean, I'll love the movie and I'll watch the crap out of it. But I don't like movies compared to TV/streaming series. There's this weird boomer mindset that somehow movies are "better" because back in the day TV series were pretty low budget, and couldn't get away with much. But those days are over, and I feel movies that serve as the "last word" on the matter always disappoints. Apart from the Farscape movie, I can't think of any series that wanted to bring it back, or to tie up loose strings with a movie. I mean...El Camino. No. I would have preferred at least a four part mini series to allow us how Jessie finds his peace. The Firefly movie? Nu uh. Nope. It was good in that the fandom showed up. But it didn't satisfy. And even though I love these characters so much, I don't feel a movie is going to solve anything. It's going to open up old wounds and want to just have our people back so we can, at minimum, see them half an hour 13 times (which comes out to be a 6.5 hour long movie) give me that. Maybe the delays are because they're sneaking around and actually making the movie AND season 7. And thats the case...i would kiss Dan Harmon. On the mouth

Ok, so let your inner Pierce and Inner Chang go wild in the comments

So yeah. That's

It has a hook on the back so I can hang it on a nail on the wall

It starts out as it often does with Annie doing something helpful (cleaning) and it spirals into escalation in trying to avoid the worst outcomes of her mistake from a wronged Abed. But all the stuff Annie does in this episode amidst all that is so hilarious.

From expressions to unintellgible noises, the impromptu Bale-Batman impression, the fake necklace backstory, getting turned-on by Batman-Abed in a second, framing the dvd in the landlord's cupboard, the back and forth with Troy and in general just not toning it down lmao. Overall a 10/10 cute-crazy Annie performance.

Shoutout to Troy also who's hilarious as usual in this episode.

This is brain wrinkling. In the original Troy and Abed Show, they act like there are cameras but as Jeff points out, there are no cameras. It's all pretend. They are on the Troy and Abed set but there are no cameras. The joke being that they are recording the scene in front of the Community cameras so in reality, the cameras exist.

When Annie hosts her show, Troy calls her out for obviously being up to something because she is in front of cameras. I always understood that to mean that Annie made a mistake setting up her pretend "fake" show. Instead of not being in front of cameras (like Troy and Abed) she did set up a camera to record herself. But, does Troy always believe that there actually are cameras in front of him when he records T&AITM? So even if Annie didn't bring a camera, Troy pretends that they exist?

For me:

1. S2

2. S3

3. S1

4. S5

5. S6

6. S4

The first 3 are the best by far, there is a big quality difference between the two halves for me. I loved the group chemistry in the first 3 seasons and that was kind of lost once more and more of the cast left and the tone became more serious. I can rewatch the 3 way more

S5 is still a welcome return to form especially the first few episodes. Still Troy leaving is always a bummer for me.

S6 just feels average apart from the wedding episode and ending. I don't really care about Frankie and Britta is handled worse than ever before (S1 britta is still peak). Jeff is just sad at this point.

Not much to say about S4, if only they didn't fire Dan Harmon.

You may see on my account I was posting in another thread about the fact that, despite his flaws, Chevy Chase was often very funny and played pierce very well.
I tried and failed to recall a particular scene where he makes this funny face and pops his hands out. It’s along the lines of “me and x are need a private conversation” -he stays-“not with you” and this “AH!” action of him slightly embarrassedly leaving. That might be completely wrong but that’s the general sentiment as I remember. He also does this little hop as he does it before promptly leaving where ever he’s not supposed to be. I imagine it’s something to do with the girls having a conversation he’s not welcome in just because that sounds like the sort of thing he’d try and stay for but again I can’t remember.

Please help, just watched an hour of Pierce clips to no avail! It’s so funny to me I crack up just thinking about it.
Thanks

Episode 1 of his storyline- Meeting the study group! 🤣

During a bit of Abed-vision a couple scenes prior we can see the MEMOS text in Abed's HUD, then in the credits they've got Starburns.

I feel like I’m missing some context as to why Annie ending up with a job like that is a bad scenario after Greendale. I’m not from the US, so the concept of pharmaceutical sales directly to doctors + drug advertising is kinda weird to me but I figured over there it’s pretty normal.

I just finished watching The Big Bang Theory and Penny ended up with the same job and it was framed as a good opportunity with a great salary and benefits. Can someone please explain why this is such a bad ending for Annie that she went back to Greendale? Does this job have a ton of stigma in American culture or something?