I want to write a big essay on community season 6 and how deeply meta it is and how Jeff and Abed, as usual, perfectly mirror each other.
Jeff is slowly realizing he’s truly in a tv show and freaking out about it because it’s season 6 and most of his original friends are gone and he’s stuck in the show (“Even Pierce got to die!” and “I’m gonna be the last one here!” “But Abed… Six seasons and a movie?”)
Abed is slowly detaching himself from the show, having accepted that change is sometimes a good thing and stepping into “real life” (leaving for university - “Jeff, I know it comforts you to see the world through that meta lense, but this is reality”)
How Frankie represents the studios wanting a less goofy show, transforming Greendale into a more respectable school (tv show) and slowly chipping away what made Community truly weird and only when they “save” Greendale is when they end the series because it’s not our Community anymore.
It’s Community, sure, but through season 6 they keep asking to tone down the bits and the bizarre stuff (shutting down paintball, because they’re just not that kind of school anymore). The Dean being treated like a baby (which he is. Babygirl Dean) and being removed from his position of authority meaning we are not in charge anymore. Frankie, beautiful, headstrong Frankie is, a new era has come.
And that’s okay. Almost everyone left. Britta, the Dean… Everyone is happy. People grow and change and that’s okay. After school ends, you don’t keep in touch with everyone. You lose track of people who saw you grow, saw you become a better person. It doesn’t change the fact that you’re still that good person.
You still drive your friends to the airport and hug your first friend you made almost seven years ago twice before you watch him leave for a better future.
JUST SAW THIS LETS FUCKING GO YESSSSS YES YES YES WOOOOOOOOO YEAH BABY THATS WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
"I'm gay" "I'm straight" okay?? And I'm literally going deep cover past enemy lines? Making everyone think I'm on the Christmas side? Rocking warm sweaters, hanging big-ass lights, if the fat man could see me, yo it's gotta look right? I'll watch all the TV specials I never could, I'll even cry during the sad ones like James Bond would, and when the big man comes it's time to set the bait? Cold milk, hot cookies, decorative plates?? And he'll come down the chimney and it will be just him and me? But he won't know we're enemies cuz I'll play sincere? Bring a trap, like that, hug him tight, get on his lap, and tell him he can come back every year? Because I am Jehovah's most secret witness, and I might have to dedicate my life to Christmas, and act just like I love it till the day I die???
“My whole career has been moments that I didn't realize until afterwards were like special, which I think is exactly how you want them to be.”
“So I would just, I think the first season I was like really nervous about it, but once I realized like, oh, you can do this again and again and again and it'll be fine. It really let me like be loose. And also I was like friends with those guys so I didn't feel like nervous, like we were always trying to make each other laugh...”
“We had no clue that like people were watching Community. NBC made it very clear. They were like, this is a bomb. This show belongs in the garbage. They were like, I mean like, well it wasn't that. It was just like, you know, we weren't like the cool show.”
“We're supposed to be- there's some progress on it -we're supposed to be shooting it soon. Haven't seen the script. Don't know and in true Dan fashion, we'll probably get it on the first day, but yeah, I mean like, it's supposed to be happening but I know just as much about it as you do.”
I haven’t watched Community in months even though I’m literally in my freshman year of college, now’s really the time. Still love it, still bring it up every day in my television class. I’ve started it up again today (from the beginning) and it reminded me to post a little tidbit I got from Chevy’s daughter when we met: Everyone was new, mostly getting their first big break except for Chevy (seasoned actor) and Donald (who had worked really hard to get here). Donald was very shy, but Alison, ever the ‘really sweet’ and boisterous theater actress, engaged everyone and brought him out of his shell. Joel is very similar to how he presents himself in real life and had an interest in the ‘business side’ and ‘very cool things,’ whatever that means. Also there were tons of group chats it’s so cute.
I peruse wornontv because I am not passionate about clothes but I am passionate about tv so it makes shopping less daunting. HOWEVER I haven’t been on in a while, and suddenly they have NINETEEN pages (most shows have 3-4) of Community outfit pieces, mostly Annie’s blouses/cardigans or Abed’s tshirts. They have exact matches and pretty similar items. I was looking for a dress for a wedding which is hard because I dress like Abed (down to the satchel) but I quickly got very distracted. Anyway. Here’s this. I love the internet.
“Jeff, you're a normal person.
There's nothing very special about you at all.
You're going to be great at a few things, But really crappy at many more.
And that takes a lot of the pressure off, So you can live a full, happy life.”
“Oh, and sorry it took me so long to tell you that.
And it was only in your imagination.
My bad.
Kind of a sloppy mom.”
“That's okay, mom.
Nobody's perfect.”
I just watched a deep dive video about Community and they mentioned that the empty 8th chair is actually for the audience and Yvette confirmed this at a con and said something along the lines of "fans have always been the 8th member of the study group". We are a part of the group and that makes me tear up a bit tbh.