9/10
Want a good laugh with well written dialogue and no laugh track forced upon you? If so, then I highly recommend Community, the show that defines LOL.
Community revolves around the members of a study group at a community college (Greendale), coming together to deal with everyday issues and creating a good laugh along the way.
Community is brilliant, sarcastic and tickles your funny bone in the right way. The show is able to balance its own story line with film references, and inserting hilarious situations all at the same time. You can literally watch a single episode multiple times in one night.The cliches and parodies used in the show is phenomenal and cleverly executed.
The cast is phenomenal and believable in their performance as they absorb their characters so well.
What I love about the show is that it is so real and relate-able. Unlike so many sitcoms now days Community does not use a laugh track to force a laugh. Community works at using dialogue, plot line and parodies to create humor and SUCCEEDS.
References in Community season 1.
Constantly referring to another piece of work, Community is an intertextual gold mine. Let's look at some parallels.
Die Hard referenced when Jeff Winger limps into the deans office in episode 23
Want a good laugh with well written dialogue and no laugh track forced upon you? If so, then I highly recommend Community, the show that defines LOL.
Community revolves around the members of a study group at a community college (Greendale), coming together to deal with everyday issues and creating a good laugh along the way.
Community is brilliant, sarcastic and tickles your funny bone in the right way. The show is able to balance its own story line with film references, and inserting hilarious situations all at the same time. You can literally watch a single episode multiple times in one night.The cliches and parodies used in the show is phenomenal and cleverly executed.
The cast is phenomenal and believable in their performance as they absorb their characters so well.
What I love about the show is that it is so real and relate-able. Unlike so many sitcoms now days Community does not use a laugh track to force a laugh. Community works at using dialogue, plot line and parodies to create humor and SUCCEEDS.
References in Community season 1.
Constantly referring to another piece of work, Community is an intertextual gold mine. Let's look at some parallels.
Die Hard referenced when Jeff Winger limps into the deans office in episode 23
Joel McHale in Community. In this scene Jeff actually limps into the office, in Die Hard, Jack's foot was cut...thus he was limping. Direct Reference
Bruce Willis in Die HardGhost being referenced (they actually talk about the film) in episode 19.
Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in Ghost
Joel McHale in CommunityPossible Wanted reference in episode 23
Ken Jeong in Community
James McAvoy in WantedMatrix
Gillian Jacobs in Community
Keanu Reeves in MatrixPossible Charlie's Angels reference in Episode 13
Gillian and Alison in Community
Cameron Diaz in Charlie's Angels
Beast Master reference
Daniel Goddard in Beastmaster
Chevy Chase in CommunityAn amazing show, that wraps it references cleverly into each plot. Definitely worth the watch! Especially, for movie/comedy fans! Love this show :)
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