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"Fire can't go through doors, stupid. It's not a ghost." -Chang (3.21) "Ghosts can't go through doors. It's not fire." - Pierce (4.2). One of my favorite jokes!
How the Dean knew about Jeff and Annie's dual costume: He's been caught reading school emails in previous episodes, I believe the implication is he was doing that again even after Jeff kicked his ass the last time he did it lol
Kind of disappointed they didn't notice, or didn't mention, the homage to Scooby Do when they all say "GILBERT?!?" But I guess it is understandable. Community references and pays homage to so many different shows, films, books, actors, directors, writers, etc at such a rapid pace, it's easy to miss some of them.
Obligatory comment about how Ring Girl Annie was filmed going out of the room and then played slow and reversed, which is also how they did it in the Ring movies
I've literally never met anyone named that. So I wouldn't say it's a name used in the US. But it's a big country, so it will definitely exist somewhere.
One of the better Season 4 episodes IMO. I don't hate the gas leak year like other fans do but it did feel like a group of corporate suits had an intern watch Seasons 1-3, take notes, and then they all tried to replicate what came before to write new episodes but without quite "getting" Community. That said, the season does have its moments and a few good episodes that while maybe not Golden Age Community were still funny and/or well acted.
I feel similarly. Season 4 is obviously no where near as good as the Golden Age of Community, but it still has its moments, and several episodes are actually pretty decent, this one being an example. That said, this episode is one of the first major instances where the budget cuts the show suffered after season 3 was extremely obvious. Pierce's "Mansion", imho, looks pretty cheap and shoddy. It's the first set on Community where the look kinda took me out of the episode at moments.
Something I just noticed is that Peirce makes the opposite version of the joke Chang makes in the episode where he tries to burn all the school records. Chang: fire can't go through doors stupid, it's not a ghost. Peirce: ghost can't go through doors stupid, they're not fire.
3:05 Britta doing that _Analyze This/Degeneration X_ crotch chop is something I didnt know I needed in my life 🙅🏾♂️ *Edit to Add:* Live that Pierce's "special gym" is soundproofed too. Thats just brilliant.
I like how you assume the dean would have a ring girl outfit at the ready When he sees Jeff leave as a boxer he just pulls a ring girl outfit out of the closet
Waldemar is a rather common name in Germany, where the Wald part means Forest, and we have the saying 'mein freund heißt Waldemar weil es im Wald geschah' wich is translated 'my friends name is Waldemar, cause it happened in the forest'.
"ghosts can't go through doors stupid, they're not fire." a funny one off line but it's made funnier when you recall that Chang said "Fire can't go through doors stupid, it's not a ghost." a few episodes ago lol
There are some good episodes this season but since this is the season without Harmon and his crew it does dip a bit in quality. Season five comes in hot
"Ive been locked in way worse places than this. Oh, not against my will." Knowing Britta, and not understanding what shes talking about, yall too innocent for the internet.
Having never seen Season 4, and hearing so much about its quality, I'm trying to watch with an open mind. But there is something definitely off with the dialogue so far. The constant referential interjections like 'No sweat Boba Fett' and 'What the Scooby Doo is going on?' feel so alien and forced for some reason.
"I hate reference humor" is also so cringe. Troy carries this episode just because Donal Glover is funny saying anything. Those lines in particular feel so weird because they are used in a way to say "we are community and this is what community does" instead of how they use it, for example, in the missing pen episode when Britta fails to execute the joke *slaps head STEPHEN FRY!*. It's to say something about her character, cause Britta Britta'd it. I think that's why the ones in this episode feel so forced... it's for the wrong reason.
Yep that's most people's gripe with 4 it's the uncanny valley of it all. My first time watching it it felt off but okay but didn't really realize how much of a difference it was until season 5 opened ilup and the juxtaposition is wild. The dialouge, the rhythm, the characters. Wildly different.
there's something that always rubbed me the wrong way about playing the Jeff's dad card almost immediately. it has always been one of the staples of his character that could fundamentally alter him if resolved. idk the new showrunner immediately harvesting the fruits from that idea's labor that has been gradually growing throughout the show without Dan Harmon's input just felt underutilized to me. Plus Britta has been comically bad at therapy for as long as she has been interested in it and that's okay. it was hilarious watching her fumble terminology and misuse concepts, but all of a sudden she cracks one of the main underlying character problems just like that.
@@silverkyreyou nailed it. Season 4 has a few good episodes, but for most of it, especially this episode, it just felt empty, like it had become a parody of itself. Uncanny valley, great wording. It wasn't until season 5's Repilot that it really clicked how off this season had been without a certain cynical aware vibe. "I remember when this show was about a community college" is the line that came the most close to what Community was a season before.
It's weird watching them not being able to read moments that are perfectly in keeping with the comic grammar of the Community universe. e.g. Britta saying she's been locked in way worse places, but not against her will. Just a passing Britta moment but it confuses the hell out of them.
Is someone going to tell them about the gas leak? I don’t know their stance on it, but I feel it was a big part of watching this show while it was airing.
I hope people don't. This fanbase is way too toxic and shits on this season and tries to ruin it for any newcomers instead of just letting people enjoy it
@@joevictor53 It's about having the necessary context when watching Season 4. They should know that Harmon was not involved and it will help explain the drop in quality (it's not shitting on the season to acknowledge S4 wasn't great). Community was literally Dan Harmon - he was as integral to the show as any showrunner could ever be to a show.
Imo it should be something people learn after finishing the season, unless they're good at going into things with no expectations and not letting things like that taint their experience. Most of the time, when people hear a bunch of bad things about something they're about to watch, they kind of instinctually focus on the bad stuff and become blind to the good stuff, and it results in a disproportionately skewed perception of the quality of the actual media.
The biggest problem season 4 has is that it follows 3 of the greatest seasons any sitcom ever put out. So even though, by any other standard it is funny and well made, it looks like straight trash when you just got done with season 3. I remember still liking bit when it aired, but when it went on netflix and I binged it, the disparity in quality was so obvious because there wasn't a few months to "forget" how great season 3 was. Now, I really enjoy it again and I find that Tue puppet episode is my favorite thing to fall asleep to. I can just vaguely hear "I started the Greendale... Fire of Oh Three" as I drift off. For whatever reason, that line just kills me.
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"Fire can't go through doors, stupid. It's not a ghost." -Chang (3.21) "Ghosts can't go through doors. It's not fire." - Pierce (4.2). One of my favorite jokes!
you are streets ahead
In the D&D episode Jeff was described as “son of William the Barely Known”
Underrated joke.
How the Dean knew about Jeff and Annie's dual costume: He's been caught reading school emails in previous episodes, I believe the implication is he was doing that again even after Jeff kicked his ass the last time he did it lol
He also listens to Jeff's conversations through their shared apartment wall
Community has given us wide screen Blind Wave on 2 separate occasions. Nice.
Ring Girl Annie is the perfect amount of freaky-deaky
You know she's pretty young. We try not to sexualize her.
@@KlevermoregamesThat was a weird place to drop this joke.
@Arkatox how? He made a joke sexualizing Annie, and I responded with the joke. It's the perfect place to drop the joke.
@@Klevermoregames I didn't see any sexual context in the OP. Must be a reference I don't understand.
Kind of disappointed they didn't notice, or didn't mention, the homage to Scooby Do when they all say "GILBERT?!?" But I guess it is understandable. Community references and pays homage to so many different shows, films, books, actors, directors, writers, etc at such a rapid pace, it's easy to miss some of them.
Obligatory comment about how Ring Girl Annie was filmed going out of the room and then played slow and reversed, which is also how they did it in the Ring movies
With Jeff being a lawyer and his dad did boxing, does that make Jeff Daredevil??
You know what, I'm gonna count that as him being in the MCU like most of the rest of the cast.
Watching Annie reacting to shows would be my favorite show too ngl
Give it 4 years and you will because of AI
That couples swing joke you made after the episode was so good
Didn't realize Waldemar is a name used in US. That's a nice fun fact. It's definitely a well known name in Poland.
Brazil too
It's used in Latin America too, except with a V.
I've literally never met anyone named that. So I wouldn't say it's a name used in the US. But it's a big country, so it will definitely exist somewhere.
One of the better Season 4 episodes IMO. I don't hate the gas leak year like other fans do but it did feel like a group of corporate suits had an intern watch Seasons 1-3, take notes, and then they all tried to replicate what came before to write new episodes but without quite "getting" Community. That said, the season does have its moments and a few good episodes that while maybe not Golden Age Community were still funny and/or well acted.
I feel similarly. Season 4 is obviously no where near as good as the Golden Age of Community, but it still has its moments, and several episodes are actually pretty decent, this one being an example.
That said, this episode is one of the first major instances where the budget cuts the show suffered after season 3 was extremely obvious. Pierce's "Mansion", imho, looks pretty cheap and shoddy. It's the first set on Community where the look kinda took me out of the episode at moments.
Something I just noticed is that Peirce makes the opposite version of the joke Chang makes in the episode where he tries to burn all the school records.
Chang: fire can't go through doors stupid, it's not a ghost.
Peirce: ghost can't go through doors stupid, they're not fire.
Just needed to know someone else noticed it too😂
I really enjoy the running gag of britta wearing these huge unweildy party costumes that make her look like a giant toddler
Pretty fun episode.
Some friends of mine went as Hall and Oats. One dressed as the musician, the other dressed like a bag of oats.
Damn Dean. Those abs.
Okay Annie. In a few episodes time
“I remember when this show was about community college…”
Wonder If we should recommend they watch the Dan Harmon returns bit from the Comic Con before season 5.
Wait what? I've never heard of this
12:40 Preach, Aaron! Call your friends, not the cops. :D
I have Eric saying my name is cool. My fucking week is made
there is a shameful lack of calvin and hobbes references in media, but im glad that if one show would do it, it’s community
Ash Ketchum and Agumon!
3:05
Britta doing that _Analyze This/Degeneration X_ crotch chop is something I didnt know I needed in my life 🙅🏾♂️
*Edit to Add:* Live that Pierce's "special gym" is soundproofed too. Thats just brilliant.
I can't wait for their reaction to Britta's therapist song
Ash Ketchum and Mustard works on multiple levels
I won’t be tricked into thinking the pole is real
Secret dogs!
Torg the troll was missing , isnt that the troll he gifted to troy in a previous ep?(the possible timelines one) cool continuity
I like how you assume the dean would have a ring girl outfit at the ready When he sees Jeff leave as a boxer he just pulls a ring girl outfit out of the closet
I don’t understand how y’all see the TV from so far away lol
William, the barely known
Waldemar is a rather common name in Germany, where the Wald part means Forest, and we have the saying 'mein freund heißt Waldemar weil es im Wald geschah' wich is translated 'my friends name is Waldemar, cause it happened in the forest'.
"ghosts can't go through doors stupid, they're not fire." a funny one off line but it's made funnier when you recall that Chang said "Fire can't go through doors stupid, it's not a ghost." a few episodes ago lol
I love this episode.
Dang, if you zoom in that much, how big is the screen you use to watch shows?
There are some good episodes this season but since this is the season without Harmon and his crew it does dip a bit in quality. Season five comes in hot
Why no Calvin??
I'm guessing this was filmed around the time he was having kidney stones
This duo need continue the kung fu panda movies!!
I know the Dean looked perfect in that ring girl costume but I did want to see Annie in that 🤐
Iono... It still didn't beat Dean's devil costume from that one Halloween episode imho, but agreed on Annie 👍
Annie's pretty young. We try not to sexualise her
Had to be said.
Things.
"Ive been locked in way worse places than this. Oh, not against my will."
Knowing Britta, and not understanding what shes talking about, yall too innocent for the internet.
I swear i thought the background was greenscreen
Indubitably
1:31 I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me.
Eventough britta’s character has been dragged through the mud her chemistry with jev is so underrated.
Where's the rest of the crew?
O, the show used to be about a community College.
Yes!
Having never seen Season 4, and hearing so much about its quality, I'm trying to watch with an open mind. But there is something definitely off with the dialogue so far. The constant referential interjections like 'No sweat Boba Fett' and 'What the Scooby Doo is going on?' feel so alien and forced for some reason.
"I hate reference humor" is also so cringe. Troy carries this episode just because Donal Glover is funny saying anything.
Those lines in particular feel so weird because they are used in a way to say "we are community and this is what community does" instead of how they use it, for example, in the missing pen episode when Britta fails to execute the joke *slaps head STEPHEN FRY!*. It's to say something about her character, cause Britta Britta'd it. I think that's why the ones in this episode feel so forced... it's for the wrong reason.
It's overblown. It's fine.
Yep that's most people's gripe with 4 it's the uncanny valley of it all. My first time watching it it felt off but okay but didn't really realize how much of a difference it was until season 5 opened ilup and the juxtaposition is wild. The dialouge, the rhythm, the characters. Wildly different.
there's something that always rubbed me the wrong way about playing the Jeff's dad card almost immediately. it has always been one of the staples of his character that could fundamentally alter him if resolved. idk the new showrunner immediately harvesting the fruits from that idea's labor that has been gradually growing throughout the show without Dan Harmon's input just felt underutilized to me.
Plus Britta has been comically bad at therapy for as long as she has been interested in it and that's okay. it was hilarious watching her fumble terminology and misuse concepts, but all of a sudden she cracks one of the main underlying character problems just like that.
@@silverkyreyou nailed it. Season 4 has a few good episodes, but for most of it, especially this episode, it just felt empty, like it had become a parody of itself. Uncanny valley, great wording. It wasn't until season 5's Repilot that it really clicked how off this season had been without a certain cynical aware vibe. "I remember when this show was about a community college" is the line that came the most close to what Community was a season before.
Patiently for season 4 episode 5, if you know what I'm talking about, good for you
Waldermar? I prefer Wagon
It's weird watching them not being able to read moments that are perfectly in keeping with the comic grammar of the Community universe. e.g. Britta saying she's been locked in way worse places, but not against her will. Just a passing Britta moment but it confuses the hell out of them.
❤
What happened to the third guy? The guy with the long ass beard. Why is it only two guy reaction now?
Is someone going to tell them about the gas leak? I don’t know their stance on it, but I feel it was a big part of watching this show while it was airing.
I don’t think they know, and at the moment they seem to still be enjoying the show. At least from the first couple episodes.
I hope people don't. This fanbase is way too toxic and shits on this season and tries to ruin it for any newcomers instead of just letting people enjoy it
@@joevictor53 It's about having the necessary context when watching Season 4. They should know that Harmon was not involved and it will help explain the drop in quality (it's not shitting on the season to acknowledge S4 wasn't great). Community was literally Dan Harmon - he was as integral to the show as any showrunner could ever be to a show.
Imo it should be something people learn after finishing the season, unless they're good at going into things with no expectations and not letting things like that taint their experience. Most of the time, when people hear a bunch of bad things about something they're about to watch, they kind of instinctually focus on the bad stuff and become blind to the good stuff, and it results in a disproportionately skewed perception of the quality of the actual media.
@@peterlewis2178 you couldn't have said it any better
wow my wifes birthday is halloween too nice.
" people " can hate all they want about season 4. It was still a good season , especially the last episode.
The biggest problem season 4 has is that it follows 3 of the greatest seasons any sitcom ever put out. So even though, by any other standard it is funny and well made, it looks like straight trash when you just got done with season 3.
I remember still liking bit when it aired, but when it went on netflix and I binged it, the disparity in quality was so obvious because there wasn't a few months to "forget" how great season 3 was.
Now, I really enjoy it again and I find that Tue puppet episode is my favorite thing to fall asleep to. I can just vaguely hear "I started the Greendale... Fire of Oh Three" as I drift off. For whatever reason, that line just kills me.
Everyone felt dumber this episode. Britta, Troy and Jeff is like they forgot what their personalities were supposed to be like.
Britta has gotten progressively dumber since season 1
Britta went from season 1 Eric Matthews to season 7 Eric Matthews in the span of one episode.
@@TheBloobster Lol thats the perfect example.
This entire season feels like that especially in repeat watching. It's so off.
one of the only pretty good episodes from the gas leak year
The pole being there, I feel like, will be a great bit come season 6..... "like tears in rain"🥏😶