CORRECTIONS FOR THIS VIDEO: #1: The image I used for Monica Padrick is in fact NOT Monica Padrick. It is actually Annie Murphy. #2: Briggs Hatton does not *actually* appear in Wedding Videography, that is actually Matt Gourley playing Briggs Hatton. #3: I'm bad at pronouncing names, it is my Achilles Heel. Kinda wish I could change the video itself without having to post an entirely new one, so just pinning this comment will have to do. I will update this any more corrections if/when they pop up. Making mistakes blows 😔
Also Briggs Hatton does not appear in Wedding Videography episode, that’s Matt Gourley playing Briggs. They brought in a stand in for Harmon too in that short writers room scene.
@@ThePrimeTheater I'm sorry! I still enjoyed the video. Very comprehensive! I appreciated the structure and giving credit to all the writers and directors that worked on the show.
"And a one, a two, a chang chang chang four" “I am Brutalitops! The magician! Magic user baby..” "Do you guys believe in ghosts? And do you believe what those ghosts say about other ghosts?" "Hey phantom menace! How's the trade embargo with the naboo?"
I like how every single character on the show, even the extras, minor characters respect the rules of paintball. They’re straightforward & remove themselves from the game even when there’s no eyewitness to them getting shot.
One of my favorite "blink & you'll miss it" moments was in Season 5, episode 6. It is the one after Troy leaves. Near the very end of the episode, Professor Hickey is home, sitting in his chair and watching TV. The crawl at the bottom of the screen reads, *"Actor LaVar Burton and non-Celebrity Guest captured by pirates."* 😁
one of my fav jokes ever in community is chang thinking hes a ghost and them zooming to a black and white picture just for it to be for a "old timey pictute club"
This is what I needed to get through the workday Edit: The reason Troy and Abed are in the tags so often, is that Community had a notoriously long filming schedule, and Donald Glover and Danny Pudi were the only two willing to stay late and film bits.
Daaaamn! I've watched this show MULTIPLE times and never noticed the monkey's hand stealing the pen!!!! Holy shirt!!! What else did I miss??? One wonders.
i never noticed the abed delivering a baby thing happened nine months after the std fair, really makes me wonder if most of the throwaway jokes have that level of thought put into them
I must've watched it through at least ten times, and odd episodes quite often too. I still notice new things to enjoy! One of my current favourite gags is everyone throwing balls of paper at whoever's talking, cracks me up every time
The second part to pillows and blankets is my favourite episode of the entire series. I was really partial to the stylised episodes and that one was just so good. And the story I heard behind it, that Harmon was told they were going over budget by shooting elaborate episodes, so they decided to make an episode composed almost entirely of photos… That’s really funny.
@@Ali-xo2de I agree with you both. When people say they don't watch after Troy leaves, I'm just sitting there like but then you miss Annie and Abed in the morning. The cow handshake. The brother who doesn't know whether to poop or keep cutting carrots. Not to mention Mike from breaking bad and better call Saul. Keith David who is utterly fantastic in his role. And Frankie Dart. Also fartz mitzvah.
Annie & Abed are genuinely so much fun in the later seasons, but they're (not unjustifiably) overshadowed by the ghost of "Troy and Abed" the entire time so it I feel like it doesn't hit as hard as it could
In 2020 I moved back to California and hadn't really watched any t.v. for years, I asked my sister what to watch, 1st thing she said was "you gotta watch Community, you'll really like it." Watched it 3 times since.
this is so well made, clearly a lot of time and love was put into it. so many retrospectives just do a synopsis of every episode one by one and aren't engaging at all, but the way you edit and jump around to each important story beat when it's most relevant is so good. usually when someone says to subscribe at the beginning of the video i scoff like "prove it first," but you definitely proved it
Sadly this show has been pulled off Netflix as of 3/31/24. Right when I was in the middle of watching this EXCELLENT retrospective and making me want to rewatch the show for the millionth time.
lol at Yvette's introduction. Yvette had already been on Curb Your Enthusiam, Two and a half men, That's so Rarcen, That 70's show, Malcom in the middle, House, the office., in addition to the nickelodeon shows and several that I don't recognize. Yvette is weirdly in everything, especiallly when you include the shows she showed up in after community started.
I remember re-watching Drake and Josh with some friends last year for the nostalgia and being like "wait their boss at the movie theatre was Shirley?".
I love the changenesia episode only because of Troy and Annie as Partner and Houlihan. Troy disagreeing with everything that Annie is my fav part of season 4
This doesn’t matter at all, but Dan Harmon’s irl study group was for biology, not Spanish. Anyway, this was the perfect thing to put in the background today, I appreciate how so much care was put into it. Thank you!!
I watch this video all the time, it's my favorite background sound, and I've been resisting the urge to "well actually" ever since it came out but I can fight it no longer. Britta doesn't move in with Troy and Abed in Season 3. Troy moves into the spare room that was the dreamatorium, symbolic of him growing up and becoming more of a man after his experiences in the air conditioner repair school.
I CAME HERE LOOKING TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE HAD POINTED THIS OUT YET. i was like, "but then britta wouldnt have to "sneak out" of troys room every morning to come visit for breakfast dates if she was living there, also theres the whole "britta moving in" plotline in season 6. glad im not crazier than any other community fan
I love community. I will never not love it. It’s genius. However my only criticism is WHY THE HELL DID THEY PAIR JEFF WITH ANNIE?! It was already there that Annie liked Troy, and Jeff liked Britta, why change it to something so much creepier. I think the only reason they get away with it is because of their charisma. But it’s a very dangerous trope, especially for the young impressionable people watching back home. This show made me think an age gap that big was okay. I was 17 going on 18. I ended up getting into some really dangerous situations because I thought it was okay. I wish they dived in more to why it was a creepy relationship. Unfortunately I feel like the writers saw no problems with it
Sorry but I don't think the show needed to educate people on that. Still, the relationship between them is never portrayed as something okay, is always creepy/judged
They very clearly thought it was wrong. Yes, fans shipped them heavily, but the show itself kept pointing out how wrong it was. I’m sorry you went through some hard times relationship wise, but you shouldn’t be blaming the show for your bad judgment.
@@noorieboorie idk I feel like if the writers did a better job at making it weird then it wouldn’t have been shipped so much by the younger impressionable fans
Shocked you didn’t mention the gag is season 5 when they mention Zach Braff only being in the first 6 episodes of season 9 of scrubs and Troy says “that son of a bitch, after everything scrubs did for him”, then Troy left season 5 after the first 6 episodes
It feels like a VERY conscious choice to not include any of that, especially as it was one of the main reasons Harmon got fired after season 3. The creator didn't even bother to include it in his pinned correction comment
I didn’t remember liking season 5 the first time I watched it but I went back and re-watched it again recently and was exited for every episode because they are genuinely rly good
That was THE reason, by Dan harmons own admission. Kinda sus that got intentionally glazed over, bc it would be impossible to dive this deep into the shows lore without knowing that
The female staff member was Megan Ganz (writer in s2 to s4). She's actually a brilliant writer, and is currently working on its always sunny in philadelphia. She actually talks about her experience on community a little on the always sunny podcast (particularly this moment when Harmon screamed at her, berating her for the s2 documentary episode which Ganz wrote).
I'm not gonna excuse what he did cause it's pretty awful, but it's worth mentioning she has stated she forgives him and mentioned an 'all time great apology'. But yea, he did that. And it was awful.
@OzymandiasWasRight I'm glad you mentioned that! I do think it's important to acknowledge when apologises are done well, and are accepted by the wronged party. Because you're right. A good apology does undo the wrong that was done, but it can lessen the harm moving forward.
In my opinion the Best thing about (besides the Humor) Community is the variety, There is a zombey episode, a Episode where the hole College fight with paintball guns, a the Floor is Lava episode, and the dice Episode in Troys and Arbids new apartment
Underrated detail I love about your retrospectives is how you theme your title cards to ape the style of the production. The lined paper and block letter font are on point.
I'm not gonna excuse what he did cause it's pretty awful, but it's worth mentioning she has stated she forgives him and mentioned an 'all time great apology'.
Don't know if it has been commented but for all the Potterheads out there; Magnitude is played by Luke Youngblood aka Lee Jordan, The Weasley Twins best friend
Haven’t finished the video yet will delete if I’m wrong, but no mention of Dan Harmons harrasment of Megan Ganz is weird, especially when the rest of this video is so well researched. Seems a purposeful omission…
Oh really? That's disappointing. I'm about 2/thirds of my way through the video, and I assumed it would be mentioned towards the end. Especially as the video covers the topic of Dan Harmon getting fired. It definitely feels like a conscious choice if that fact is omitted, as the videos stops to point out the writers of each season, and Ganz wrote the super popular s2 documentary episode (which Harmon screamed at her about, as he originally hated it)
He also covers up for Chevy Chase racism wich really put me off, like he said the n word to demonstrate how racist pierce is? Are we supposed to believe that? Just sounds like a shitty cover up
I'm not gonna excuse what he did cause it's pretty awful, but it's worth mentioning she has stated she forgives him and mentioned an 'all time great apology'.
S1 Jeff's (38) grossness at kissing Annie (18) is only tempered by the fact that Allison Brie was really 27 at the time... But still... (Annie was supposed to be 19 in S2 during Troys 21st)
I was ecstatic when I saw a community video essay I haven’t watched bc I really feel like i’ve seen everything after 4 years as a fan, this is my new favorite fs
I didn't even realize that this video youtube suggested was only 2 weeks old so i was definitely surprised finding out that there was an official movie that was green lit. I've rewatched episodes here and there but I was out of the loop so this was a nice surprise for me
The ending of this like 3 hour video being the way I find out the community movie is actually happening might be one of the best ways I could have learned that information
Jeff is the only one who responds to Abed’s fourth wall breaks & meta jokes. He will be the 1st to tell Abed that life is not TV. In S2E1, where Jeff & Britta are pretending to be madly in love, Jeff calls Abed’s “I can’t tell life from TV” a gimmick & very S1. To which Abed replies, “I can tell life from TV but TV is more structured & has likeable leading men but irl, we have you, Jeff”. But Jeff kinda deep down goes along with Abed. Communty’s high concept episodes are not gimmicks like you said. They’re what set the show apart.
Unpopular opinion: I agree with Chevy Chase's final disillusion with his Character. While the ensemble is great and everyone has their moments, Pierce was a wonderful character that was done wrong by the writers with every season. Sure he was crazy, insecure, bigoted and a prick, but at first he was also well rounded by being smart, having a different point of view, and actually being funny without hurting others. The way they made him bitter and hateful was unnecessary when Jeff is clearly the most toxic one of the group. It is kind of the way they ruined Britta, if Gillian Jacobs wasn't so okay with her character being silly I would be more upset by how they turned someone who was supposed to be smart, caring, brave and a straightwoman to Jeff's controlling and scheming nature to a silly side character almost as pathetic as Rupert Grint's Ron in the Harry Potter movies. I think it is a waste of potential and while Chevy doing those things was not cool he was protecting the character he played and as brilliant as Dan is, he really screwed himself and the show over by doing such a disservice to his characters after season 2. It had to take him being fired and rehired for season 5 for him to get them in some semblance of the good banter but without Chevy and Donald it really had to take bringing other characters like Johnathan and Pagget which were fabulous additions but the dynamic wasn't the same.
I absolutely guarantee you they changed his character because they started to actually hate him in real life. Some of those Pierce episodes felt like they wanted to send him a message in real life lmaooo
Yahoo didn't "try to get into the search engine game." They basically STARTED the search engine game. They just fell behind and failed to buy google cheap when they had the chance.
Great video!! Absolutely loved it. I’ve been smashing through RUclips’s vast catalogue of Community video essays and retrospectives, so when I woke up and found your 3 and a half hour video at the top of my home page this morning, my reaction was more or less exactly how Buddy reacted when he found out he was in the cool group!
I really liked intro to felt surrogacy. Specifically the music. Both the first and the last songs always stick with me a while after each rewatch. The first one is very catchy and the last one is touching despite being funny. Both Pierce's and Troy's solos always hit pretty hard.
Paget Brewster and Keith David have special places amongst the Community cast for me despite only appearing in the 6th season, which speaks to how strong their characters ended up being.
Didn’t upon me recently that Chevys character is pretty much based on him. Dudes apart of the Chase Family, didn’t go into the family financial business, and is a huge pos. Sums up Pierce Hawthorne
I dont remember watching a movie/video without pausing fully focused in a long time. Maybe never did. Trust me on this that my all time favourite movie is The Irishman which is 3.30 hours long and I watched it many times. But I’ve never watched it non-stop. You made me watch for 3.38 hours non-stop. Respect brother. Just gonna tell you the best compliment a community fan give you. AND THIS IS A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE INCREDIBLE VIDEOS!
I'm also Canadian, so figuring out how Peacock streaming is going to be hell unless they fix it by the time the movie comes out. Maybe Universal will be brave enough to give it a theatrical release?? Anyhow, another great retrospective, Prime :) PS, I literally JUST got a new Xbox, so you're next retrospective has me VERY excited!
I just started binging the show so I'll save to watch the full video later but this is amazing and unexpected, thank you so much for making this. Also, would love a retrospective on Walking Dead or Game of Thrones down the line
My favorite meta joke in all of Community is when they're finishing the sixth season and Abed is talking about how the movie will *definitely* happen. He says if they don't all come back at some point that means a meteor hit the earth and killed everyone, then he looks directly at the camera and says "And that's canon." RIP
Still making my way through the MCU retrospective. Made it through TDKR trilogy videos and now I have this one to look forward to. Just wanted to thank you so much for all your hard work and let you know that you are a staple in my morning routine (have you playing in the background all throughout) and a staple for whenever I make long car rides. Keep up the amazing work!!!!
I absolutely love Matt Berry in S6 but Im eternally saddened it was before his role in WWDITS solely because I really wanna hear him respond to Brittas "I lived in New York City!" with a Lazlo line read lmao
Love the retrospective. Surprised you didn't mention that the Myles Morales Spiderman was created by them seeing Troy in Spiderman pajamas in the opening montage in season 2.
I’m so glad you said Frankie is one of the best new parts of Season 6; after watching the show all the way through for the first time, I was so confused why I saw some people online saying Frankie ruined the show. Since then, I’ve come to learn that the sentiment was only really shared by basement dwellers and people who hate women.
I can give your video no higher compliment than it made me laugh so hard I had to stop it halfway through and start rewatching Community again. Well done!!
The ONLY 2 things I dislike about the show is Britta’s devolution as a character (I get it, it’s to show the hypocrisy of activists & PC-police) & Jeff resets to his distant, irreverent, sarcastic douche bag-self at the beginning of EVERY EPISODE. Sure, in the final episode, we see his growth, but till then in at the beginning of every episode, it’s like he unlearns every lesson from the previous episode. It could because of the format of the Harmon story circle ⭕️
I really enjoyed your video, in fact, when Troy goes off on Zach Braff, I did not get the joke that Donald Glover was parroting what his detractors were saying about him leaving Community...Genius! Thank you
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CORRECTIONS FOR THIS VIDEO:
#1: The image I used for Monica Padrick is in fact NOT Monica Padrick. It is actually Annie Murphy.
#2: Briggs Hatton does not *actually* appear in Wedding Videography, that is actually Matt Gourley playing Briggs Hatton.
#3: I'm bad at pronouncing names, it is my Achilles Heel.
Kinda wish I could change the video itself without having to post an entirely new one, so just pinning this comment will have to do. I will update this any more corrections if/when they pop up.
Making mistakes blows 😔
Have you also been informed you pronounced Schrab wrong?
@@Snackington name pronunciation is my Achilles heel 😔
Also Briggs Hatton does not appear in Wedding Videography episode, that’s Matt Gourley playing Briggs. They brought in a stand in for Harmon too in that short writers room scene.
@@LuxuryPossum im just winning all the awards on this one, huh
@@ThePrimeTheater I'm sorry! I still enjoyed the video. Very comprehensive! I appreciated the structure and giving credit to all the writers and directors that worked on the show.
“Fire can’t go through walls stupid…. It’s not a ghost!” Is hands down the best Chang line of this whole show. It cracks me up every time.
"And a one, a two, a chang chang chang four"
“I am Brutalitops! The magician! Magic user baby..”
"Do you guys believe in ghosts? And do you believe what those ghosts say about other ghosts?"
"Hey phantom menace! How's the trade embargo with the naboo?"
@@CasperUK31 "I'm liiiterally dying, but you'll never hear my story"
"I AM A SPANISH GENIUS"
The next season: Ghosts can't go through doors, stupid. They're not fire. - Pierce.
Ha - Gay!
I always thought Abed created all 6 timelines in his head. That's why the darkest timeline is when Troy leaves for the pizza.
And the show got dark after donald left
It’s also a Nat 1
@@TheNinthGeneration1 this wrinkled my mind
I like how every single character on the show, even the extras, minor characters respect the rules of paintball. They’re straightforward & remove themselves from the game even when there’s no eyewitness to them getting shot.
I noticed that too. I was wondered why no one changed their clothes and lie.
Rules of war ya feel
I really wish the first D&D episode was more readily available. The world needs to know the legend of Hector the Well-Endowed
And Kyle the gnome waiter
search it on youtube there’s a 7 part playlist with the whole episode
It's available on here if you just look up the episode. It's in like 3 minutes increments but still, better than nothing
Amazon Prime has the episode available. It's where I obtained it.
@@chelsie2767found it ty
One of my favorite "blink & you'll miss it" moments was in Season 5, episode 6. It is the one after Troy leaves. Near the very end of the episode, Professor Hickey is home, sitting in his chair and watching TV. The crawl at the bottom of the screen reads, *"Actor LaVar Burton and non-Celebrity Guest captured by pirates."* 😁
That's hilarious, I love these little details!
You just wringled my brain
There is another in Season 6 that alludes to what happens to Hickey. Don't recall the details though...
"I don't wanna be your father."
"Perfect, you already know your lines."
one of my fav jokes ever in community is chang thinking hes a ghost and them zooming to a black and white picture just for it to be for a "old timey pictute club"
This is what I needed to get through the workday
Edit: The reason Troy and Abed are in the tags so often, is that Community had a notoriously long filming schedule, and Donald Glover and Danny Pudi were the only two willing to stay late and film bits.
That's not true. Every cast member except Chevy almost always stayed late to shoot
@@HectorTWEyes but i think they mean extra late
Nobody appreciated Joel McHale’s perfect sarcastic & cynical tone of his character. He deserves more praise & recognition.
Fuck yes he does
Everybody appreciated it. He was the de facto leader for a reason.
@@Bokmohlet's be clear. He was only the leader because Abed let him be. If not for him, everyone would still be speaking the same language: chicken.
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He was soooo hate-able 😂
Daaaamn! I've watched this show MULTIPLE times and never noticed the monkey's hand stealing the pen!!!! Holy shirt!!! What else did I miss??? One wonders.
i never noticed the abed delivering a baby thing happened nine months after the std fair, really makes me wonder if most of the throwaway jokes have that level of thought put into them
I must've watched it through at least ten times, and odd episodes quite often too. I still notice new things to enjoy!
One of my current favourite gags is everyone throwing balls of paper at whoever's talking, cracks me up every time
it's pretty forking cool
HAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaAAmmmmmm, gurl!
@@play3r.wav.you do know I'm saying fork and not fork right?
The second part to pillows and blankets is my favourite episode of the entire series. I was really partial to the stylised episodes and that one was just so good. And the story I heard behind it, that Harmon was told they were going over budget by shooting elaborate episodes, so they decided to make an episode composed almost entirely of photos… That’s really funny.
Annie & Abed are two of my favorite tv characters ever. It also helps that Alison Brie and Danny Pudi share one of the cutest celeb friendships ever
Yeah!! Their dynamic is probably my favorite thing of the last seasons of community, they're just so cute!!
@@Ali-xo2de I agree with you both. When people say they don't watch after Troy leaves, I'm just sitting there like but then you miss Annie and Abed in the morning. The cow handshake. The brother who doesn't know whether to poop or keep cutting carrots. Not to mention Mike from breaking bad and better call Saul. Keith David who is utterly fantastic in his role. And Frankie Dart. Also fartz mitzvah.
Annie & Abed are genuinely so much fun in the later seasons, but they're (not unjustifiably) overshadowed by the ghost of "Troy and Abed" the entire time so it I feel like it doesn't hit as hard as it could
I didn’t watch Community when it came out. I have now watched it several times through and it’s hands down one of my favorite shows of all time
In 2020 I moved back to California and hadn't really watched any t.v. for years, I asked my sister what to watch, 1st thing she said was "you gotta watch Community, you'll really like it." Watched it 3 times since.
A 3,5 hour video recapping a TV-show I've seen five times? Count me in!
That second hug can reliably be guaranteed to remind me of: "I see your value now." "That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me."
this is so well made, clearly a lot of time and love was put into it. so many retrospectives just do a synopsis of every episode one by one and aren't engaging at all, but the way you edit and jump around to each important story beat when it's most relevant is so good. usually when someone says to subscribe at the beginning of the video i scoff like "prove it first," but you definitely proved it
For real
Sadly this show has been pulled off Netflix as of 3/31/24. Right when I was in the middle of watching this EXCELLENT retrospective and making me want to rewatch the show for the millionth time.
If you can afford it, I'd suggest getting the box set. It's all yours, all the time.
It’s on Peacock now every episode even the Dungeons and Dragons episode
It's also currently on prime but might be leaving soon :'(
Their youtube channel has uploaded the full length episodes for free
@@poke8735sadly every single episode but the pilot has been made unviewable
lol at Yvette's introduction. Yvette had already been on Curb Your Enthusiam, Two and a half men, That's so Rarcen, That 70's show, Malcom in the middle, House, the office., in addition to the nickelodeon shows and several that I don't recognize. Yvette is weirdly in everything, especiallly when you include the shows she showed up in after community started.
I remember re-watching Drake and Josh with some friends last year for the nostalgia and being like "wait their boss at the movie theatre was Shirley?".
I love the changenesia episode only because of Troy and Annie as Partner and Houlihan. Troy disagreeing with everything that Annie is my fav part of season 4
I loved everything about changnesia. Ken Jeong was hilarious
@@nm9688he was soooo underutilized
This doesn’t matter at all, but Dan Harmon’s irl study group was for biology, not Spanish. Anyway, this was the perfect thing to put in the background today, I appreciate how so much care was put into it. Thank you!!
One of my all time favs is BACK! Every prime upload is a certified youtube event!
0:02 ummm, I've seen the 6 seasons of community 24 times, do you think it's possible that I might have been spoiled?
I watch this video all the time, it's my favorite background sound, and I've been resisting the urge to "well actually" ever since it came out but I can fight it no longer. Britta doesn't move in with Troy and Abed in Season 3. Troy moves into the spare room that was the dreamatorium, symbolic of him growing up and becoming more of a man after his experiences in the air conditioner repair school.
I CAME HERE LOOKING TO SEE IF ANYONE ELSE HAD POINTED THIS OUT YET. i was like, "but then britta wouldnt have to "sneak out" of troys room every morning to come visit for breakfast dates if she was living there, also theres the whole "britta moving in" plotline in season 6. glad im not crazier than any other community fan
i love how chevy chase leaving was a result of him being old, full of himself, and not getting the joke. he really was the perfect pierce
That's actually really funny dude!
I love community. I will never not love it. It’s genius. However my only criticism is WHY THE HELL DID THEY PAIR JEFF WITH ANNIE?! It was already there that Annie liked Troy, and Jeff liked Britta, why change it to something so much creepier. I think the only reason they get away with it is because of their charisma. But it’s a very dangerous trope, especially for the young impressionable people watching back home. This show made me think an age gap that big was okay. I was 17 going on 18. I ended up getting into some really dangerous situations because I thought it was okay. I wish they dived in more to why it was a creepy relationship. Unfortunately I feel like the writers saw no problems with it
Jeff and Britta had a chemistry that didn’t exist between Jeff and Annie.
Sorry but I don't think the show needed to educate people on that. Still, the relationship between them is never portrayed as something okay, is always creepy/judged
They very clearly thought it was wrong. Yes, fans shipped them heavily, but the show itself kept pointing out how wrong it was.
I’m sorry you went through some hard times relationship wise, but you shouldn’t be blaming the show for your bad judgment.
@@noorieboorie idk I feel like if the writers did a better job at making it weird then it wouldn’t have been shipped so much by the younger impressionable fans
One of my favorite channels discussing one of my favorite shows...for over 3 hours...❤
And r.i.p. Carl Weathers.
Not that I don't agree, but what is the relevance of Carl Weathers?
@samgow7048 he made a reference/showed the handshake from predator
Shocked you didn’t mention the gag is season 5 when they mention Zach Braff only being in the first 6 episodes of season 9 of scrubs and Troy says “that son of a bitch, after everything scrubs did for him”, then Troy left season 5 after the first 6 episodes
Umm actually, exactly that clip was shown in this video, mentioning it as a jab at Scrubs and Donald Glover leaving Community in season 5. @ 2:40:00
@@CoiN82when people do a "you forgot this!" Comment that were either not paying attention or posted before the end drive me insane.
The bloopers reel for Community is so hilarious too! Donald and Alison especially shine in those
How are you going to pust a Community retrospective and PRAISE Dan Harmon while saying ZERO about his s3xual harassment of Meg Ganz??
It feels like a VERY conscious choice to not include any of that, especially as it was one of the main reasons Harmon got fired after season 3. The creator didn't even bother to include it in his pinned correction comment
I didn’t remember liking season 5 the first time I watched it but I went back and re-watched it again recently and was exited for every episode because they are genuinely rly good
Didn’t Dan Harmon harass a female staff member on the show? I thought that was also one of the reasons they let him go for a season…
That was THE reason, by Dan harmons own admission. Kinda sus that got intentionally glazed over, bc it would be impossible to dive this deep into the shows lore without knowing that
The female staff member was Megan Ganz (writer in s2 to s4). She's actually a brilliant writer, and is currently working on its always sunny in philadelphia. She actually talks about her experience on community a little on the always sunny podcast (particularly this moment when Harmon screamed at her, berating her for the s2 documentary episode which Ganz wrote).
I'm not gonna excuse what he did cause it's pretty awful, but it's worth mentioning she has stated she forgives him and mentioned an 'all time great apology'.
But yea, he did that. And it was awful.
@OzymandiasWasRight I'm glad you mentioned that! I do think it's important to acknowledge when apologises are done well, and are accepted by the wronged party.
Because you're right. A good apology does undo the wrong that was done, but it can lessen the harm moving forward.
My overall take on Community:
It was the comedy FOR nerds while shows like Big Bang Theory was a comedy that used nerds as the butt of jokes
So excited to watch this. The retrospective GOAT returns
Oh my god, thank you for making this!
ayyyyy, my pleasure
Recently discovered this channel with the MCU series - and now you've done one of my fav TV shows - you da real MVP
This show didn’t get enough Emmys. At least “Arrested Development” got the critical acclaim & became a Emmy-darling during its run on the network.
In my opinion the Best thing about (besides the Humor) Community is the variety, There is a zombey episode, a Episode where the hole College fight with paintball guns, a the Floor is Lava episode, and the dice Episode in Troys and Arbids new apartment
"I never saw Beastmaster, I just wanted you to think I was cool" lives rent free in my head
RICHARD AYOADE DIRECTED THE MY DINNER WITH ANDRE EPISODE?!?! HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!
Underrated detail I love about your retrospectives is how you theme your title cards to ape the style of the production. The lined paper and block letter font are on point.
That’s not the complete reason Dan was fired
I know, the gap that is Megan Ganz is so loud
I'm not gonna excuse what he did cause it's pretty awful, but it's worth mentioning she has stated she forgives him and mentioned an 'all time great apology'.
A beautiful homage to one of the weirdest most wonderful shows to grace our screens. Thank you for sharing this with all of us!
Garret's wedding will always be my favorite episode from season 6. It's just ridiculous on every level
Don't know if it has been commented but for all the Potterheads out there; Magnitude is played by Luke Youngblood aka Lee Jordan, The Weasley Twins best friend
Omg yes he is the one who does quidditch commentaries 😮😮😮
Haven’t finished the video yet will delete if I’m wrong, but no mention of Dan Harmons harrasment of Megan Ganz is weird, especially when the rest of this video is so well researched. Seems a purposeful omission…
Oh really? That's disappointing. I'm about 2/thirds of my way through the video, and I assumed it would be mentioned towards the end. Especially as the video covers the topic of Dan Harmon getting fired. It definitely feels like a conscious choice if that fact is omitted, as the videos stops to point out the writers of each season, and Ganz wrote the super popular s2 documentary episode (which Harmon screamed at her about, as he originally hated it)
He also covers up for Chevy Chase racism wich really put me off, like he said the n word to demonstrate how racist pierce is? Are we supposed to believe that? Just sounds like a shitty cover up
I'm not gonna excuse what he did cause it's pretty awful, but it's worth mentioning she has stated she forgives him and mentioned an 'all time great apology'.
Usually I’d never watch a +3 hour long video, but your retrospectives are seriously good. Bravo Sir 👏 can’t wait for the next one!
Frankie is one of my favorite characters in Community. One of the best characters from the last seasons
fr i really wish she could have been introduced earlier as Frankie besides her IT lady one off
Just remember, Annie's pretty young, we try not to sexualize her.
I watched it when it was on the air. It’s such a great show. I’m sharing it with my 16 year old son now and looking forward to #andamovie
S1 Jeff's (38) grossness at kissing Annie (18) is only tempered by the fact that Allison Brie was really 27 at the time... But still...
(Annie was supposed to be 19 in S2 during Troys 21st)
Still legal consent according to law, and both actors didn't care. She was not a child, you know?
Prime Theater + Community... Streets Ahead indeed! Phenomenal Work as always.
I was ecstatic when I saw a community video essay I haven’t watched bc I really feel like i’ve seen everything after 4 years as a fan, this is my new favorite fs
Almost 10 years later, I will always be here for Community retrospectives
I didn't even realize that this video youtube suggested was only 2 weeks old so i was definitely surprised finding out that there was an official movie that was green lit. I've rewatched episodes here and there but I was out of the loop so this was a nice surprise for me
The ending of this like 3 hour video being the way I find out the community movie is actually happening might be one of the best ways I could have learned that information
Jeff is the only one who responds to Abed’s fourth wall breaks & meta jokes. He will be the 1st to tell Abed that life is not TV. In S2E1, where Jeff & Britta are pretending to be madly in love, Jeff calls Abed’s “I can’t tell life from TV” a gimmick & very S1.
To which Abed replies, “I can tell life from TV but TV is more structured & has likeable leading men but irl, we have you, Jeff”. But Jeff kinda deep down goes along with Abed.
Communty’s high concept episodes are not gimmicks like you said. They’re what set the show apart.
Unpopular opinion: I agree with Chevy Chase's final disillusion with his Character. While the ensemble is great and everyone has their moments, Pierce was a wonderful character that was done wrong by the writers with every season. Sure he was crazy, insecure, bigoted and a prick, but at first he was also well rounded by being smart, having a different point of view, and actually being funny without hurting others. The way they made him bitter and hateful was unnecessary when Jeff is clearly the most toxic one of the group. It is kind of the way they ruined Britta, if Gillian Jacobs wasn't so okay with her character being silly I would be more upset by how they turned someone who was supposed to be smart, caring, brave and a straightwoman to Jeff's controlling and scheming nature to a silly side character almost as pathetic as Rupert Grint's Ron in the Harry Potter movies. I think it is a waste of potential and while Chevy doing those things was not cool he was protecting the character he played and as brilliant as Dan is, he really screwed himself and the show over by doing such a disservice to his characters after season 2. It had to take him being fired and rehired for season 5 for him to get them in some semblance of the good banter but without Chevy and Donald it really had to take bringing other characters like Johnathan and Pagget which were fabulous additions but the dynamic wasn't the same.
I absolutely guarantee you they changed his character because they started to actually hate him in real life. Some of those Pierce episodes felt like they wanted to send him a message in real life lmaooo
I still remember seeing this show for the first time in 2011 and till this day it's still my favorite tv show of all time.
Dean Pelton is one of the funniest secondary characters ever. That actor was also very funny as Fenton on That 70s Show.
Yahoo didn't "try to get into the search engine game." They basically STARTED the search engine game. They just fell behind and failed to buy google cheap when they had the chance.
Me and my sister learned by heart the Spanish rap and singed it. This series is so good and carries so many memories for me
Great video!! Absolutely loved it. I’ve been smashing through RUclips’s vast catalogue of Community video essays and retrospectives, so when I woke up and found your 3 and a half hour video at the top of my home page this morning, my reaction was more or less exactly how Buddy reacted when he found out he was in the cool group!
I really liked intro to felt surrogacy. Specifically the music. Both the first and the last songs always stick with me a while after each rewatch. The first one is very catchy and the last one is touching despite being funny. Both Pierce's and Troy's solos always hit pretty hard.
Troy is the best part of this show once they figured out what to do with him
In the final of season 4, you say it's all just a dream but it wasn't a dream. He was fantasizing. I feel like it's an important distinction.
"Hah, gayyyyy" so iconic I started quoting it before I even knew what Community was lmao
Paget Brewster and Keith David have special places amongst the Community cast for me despite only appearing in the 6th season, which speaks to how strong their characters ended up being.
There were several misanalyzed portions of what I did see but wow. This is a lot of work. Have to give props to you for this video.
Didn’t upon me recently that Chevys character is pretty much based on him. Dudes apart of the Chase Family, didn’t go into the family financial business, and is a huge pos. Sums up Pierce Hawthorne
I dont remember watching a movie/video without pausing fully focused in a long time. Maybe never did. Trust me on this that my all time favourite movie is The Irishman which is 3.30 hours long and I watched it many times. But I’ve never watched it non-stop. You made me watch for 3.38 hours non-stop. Respect brother. Just gonna tell you the best compliment a community fan give you. AND THIS IS A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE INCREDIBLE VIDEOS!
I will die on this hill: Chang dressed as a Drow is not blackface
I'm also Canadian, so figuring out how Peacock streaming is going to be hell unless they fix it by the time the movie comes out. Maybe Universal will be brave enough to give it a theatrical release??
Anyhow, another great retrospective, Prime :)
PS, I literally JUST got a new Xbox, so you're next retrospective has me VERY excited!
I just started binging the show so I'll save to watch the full video later but this is amazing and unexpected, thank you so much for making this. Also, would love a retrospective on Walking Dead or Game of Thrones down the line
I did finish the series thanks to this video. Your video was a great watch.
He’s doing the Halo games next. It’s about time he does video games. Please do Kingdom Hearts. Even if I haven’t played either franchise.
Will he ever mention the Halo series on Paramount+?
That pic you used for Monica Padrick is def a pic of Annie Murphy from Schitts Creek
yes, i am aware of my mistake, thank you
I would love a retrospective for Always Sunny In Philadelphia! It has so much history that could be awesome to explore. Love the work!
And Megan Ganz is a brilliant writer on both!
My favorite meta joke in all of Community is when they're finishing the sixth season and Abed is talking about how the movie will *definitely* happen. He says if they don't all come back at some point that means a meteor hit the earth and killed everyone, then he looks directly at the camera and says "And that's canon."
RIP
I'm still in love with Alison/Annie, ever since she let her hair down in the Debate 109 episode. Love this video btw; great work!
Was not expecting this one!
Still making my way through the MCU retrospective. Made it through TDKR trilogy videos and now I have this one to look forward to. Just wanted to thank you so much for all your hard work and let you know that you are a staple in my morning routine (have you playing in the background all throughout) and a staple for whenever I make long car rides. Keep up the amazing work!!!!
Prime is back with another absolute banger, I absolutely love these videos. You deserve much more recognition
Not many can make hours fly by like the Retrospective King Prime, thanks for covering one of my personal favourites! Much love bro ❤
I absolutely love Matt Berry in S6 but Im eternally saddened it was before his role in WWDITS solely because I really wanna hear him respond to Brittas "I lived in New York City!" with a Lazlo line read lmao
Just wanna say, thank you for all the retrospective videos ❤❤
Love the retrospective. Surprised you didn't mention that the Myles Morales Spiderman was created by them seeing Troy in Spiderman pajamas in the opening montage in season 2.
I’m so glad you said Frankie is one of the best new parts of Season 6; after watching the show all the way through for the first time, I was so confused why I saw some people online saying Frankie ruined the show. Since then, I’ve come to learn that the sentiment was only really shared by basement dwellers and people who hate women.
4:48 RIP Carl Weathers😢
choosing Garrett to sing Ave Maria at the wake is still my favourite thing in Community
When Abed makes his first film and his dad cries, I cry everytime
I can give your video no higher compliment than it made me laugh so hard I had to stop it halfway through and start rewatching Community again. Well done!!
The ONLY 2 things I dislike about the show is Britta’s devolution as a character (I get it, it’s to show the hypocrisy of activists & PC-police) & Jeff resets to his distant, irreverent, sarcastic douche bag-self at the beginning of EVERY EPISODE. Sure, in the final episode, we see his growth, but till then in at the beginning of every episode, it’s like he unlearns every lesson from the previous episode. It could because of the format of the Harmon story circle ⭕️
If you notice, the paper in the opening creates gets progressively more crumpled through the seasons.
“Alright, we gotta keep this moving, I’m almost late for class”
*proceeds to talk for another 3 and a half hours*
In the hands of less capable writers & show runner, Abed would have remained just a “weirdo”.
This was a beautifully put together retrospective. Thank you.
Awww I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!!!!
I really enjoyed your video, in fact, when Troy goes off on Zach Braff, I did not get the joke that Donald Glover was parroting what his detractors were saying about him leaving Community...Genius! Thank you
I was a high school senior in 2009 in this show got me so pumped for community college the next year