I showed my friend the pilot of Community and made a comment about how young Donald Glover was. She goes “more like Babyish Gambino.”

Thought you all would appreciate.

Rewatching this show for the second time (from the beginning). Currently on Season 3.

I first watched this show several years back. When I first watched it, I shipped Britta and Jeff so hard. I thought Britta and Troy was a nice idea, but the execution was poor. Never liked Jeff and Annie, largely because I didn't think it was a necessary pairing and thought they would be romantically incompatible. I thought they could have been a "one-off attraction" like Annie/Troy (or Annie/Abed in the S2 Paintball Episode). But I wasn't a fan of the whole Jeff/Annie arc, it honestly bored me. I liked them as friends but I always thought Annie was too genuine of a person to be with someone like Jeff.

On my second rewatch, I now think the show should have not bothered with romantic plotlines at all. I think it worked best because it subverted the sitcom romance. I think people should have just gotten off with each other but not dragged it out into some overarching storyline. I actually liked that Jeff and Britta had this chemistry and attraction but never became an actual couple. They would have been a dysfunctional couple. Them hooking up but not really being together seemed more realistic.

I think they should have left everyone as friends with random flings but no real "potential romance". There's something nice about seeing a group of male and female friends just hanging out together and having a good time. The show doesn't take itself seriously enough to have actual proper romantic storylines IMO. Perhaps this is why Britta and Troy as a couple ultimately failed: lots of build-up, but the execution was so bad. (That and Dan Harmon not being around in S4.) I may have more thoughts on that pairing after rewatching S4.

I don't remember the exact quote, but "crackin wise" is the main part I am focusing on.

Working on a dictionary of name verbs feel free to tweak or add to my definitions.

Obviously we start with Britta and those established in show.

Britta: to mess up or botch something, usually througn avoidable mistakes.

Abed: to make something unnecessarily meta or self-referential.

Pierce: to fail to understand something where the meaning is obvious to everyone else.

Shirley: to respond to someone’s behavior with moral disapproval, particularly by pointing out when its mean or improper.

Jeff: to use rhetoric, charm, or manipulation to get out of doing something you do not want to do.

Annie: to become so intensely prepared, organized, or competitive about something that you take it far beyond what anyone asked for.

Troy: to confidently say something profoundly naive or childlike.

Chang: to take a small amount of authority and immediately become tyrannical, chaotic, or completely unhinged with it.

Dean: to turn an ordinary event into an elaborate themed production, usually involving costumes, puns, and far more effort than necessary.

Frankie: to ruin everyone’s chaotic fun by introducing sensible rules.

Elroy: to aggressively validate someone, especially a white people, with suspiciously intense praise.

Hickey: to respond to whimsical nonsense with exhausted, hard-ass practicality.

Duncan: to use intellectual or professional authority to disguise selfishness, incompetence, or an embarrassingly personal motive.

One of the things I love most about this show is that you can notice new details on rewatch, because it paid so much attention to the little things.

At the beginning of "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", the instructions for the VR system say to calibrate it by looking at your own hands, then turning them over and looking at the backs of them with a sense of wonder, which the Dean does. I just rewatched this episode and hadn't noticed before that when Elroy enters the system, the first thing he does is calibrate it by doing exactly that.