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[vealesy]

Me 10 minutes ago: Date just cancelled on me tonight

Me after reading the above post: Date just cancelled on me tonight

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Already a massive improvement on S4, which I found utterly unwatchable on DVD.

Can't wait for Duncan to appear.

 

[Kickpuncher]

Just remembered season 5 started today boy oh boy wowee

Time to prepare the pre-show snacks.

 

[JUBJUB]

Troy : "Should we be doing this with you know who gone....Magnitude ?"

Loved Troy's reaction when Abed said Zack Braff was only in the first 6 eps of season 9 of Scrubs

Jonathon Banks will be a great addition to the cast

 

[Kickpuncher]

Abed as Nicolas Cage is better than ever episode put together from last season

 

[eaglespremiers]

"I'm much sadder than the rest of you. I'll figure out why later." Troy

Pity, we won't get more of these gems once he leaves.

 

[triplejdude]

Those episodes were excellent. Really felt like the old Community. Abed as Nicolas Cage was sensational.

Pop...POP!

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Loved Troy's reaction when Abed said Zack Braff was only in the first 6 eps of season 9 of Scrubs

Pissed myself at that too

Cameo from Pierce was a nice touch. Loving the Buzz Hickey character as well.

A couple of very good episodes to start the new season, hope they can keep it up.

 

[Kickpuncher]

#sixseasonsandamovie

 

[bradrowe#32]

Didn't get into the first episode that much, but the second was pretty good.

 

[Ochre]

Loved the reference to the 'gas leak year'

 

[alfy!]

That was surprisingly really, really good. Community is back!

 

[SugarShane]

Didn't get into the first episode that much, but the second was pretty good.

Same here, first episode was a bit of a let down but did ok in setting up the season. 2nd episode was back to its best.

 

[vealesy]

I saw the first one as a pilot. A good pilot.

Second was great.

Its finally back.

 

[alfy!]

 

[MC Bad Genius]

I haven't seen the second episode yet, so I should probably hold off on my judgement but I actually really enjoyed the first episode ... some good laughs and of course more self-referential than it should be allowed to get away with (but somehow does), but it just felt right. Also, when did they get Chevy Chase to do that hologram? Do you think it was just something left over from over the last few years or did they convince him to do one more scene?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

The only problem I had with the episodes was the ad at the start, I don't think Jeff would have agreed to voice that for Abed.

 

[alfy!]

Also, when did they get Chevy Chase to do that hologram? Do you think it was just something left over from over the last few years or did they convince him to do one more scene?

http://au.ign.com/articles/2014/01/...erce-hawthorne-cameo-came-to-be?+main+twitter

IGN: Chevy’s cameo was a very nice surprise. How did that come about, and how did you decide upon the specific way it happened in the episode?

Dan Harmon: Well, there's always the point in every story when a character that's gone down a certain path needs to have a reason to turn. One of the easiest things to do is have a moment with a mentor, a kind of Obi-Wan figure. I was really just considering what the story needed in the moment where Jeff is walking away with the power to destroy or save Greendale in his hands. What the story needed was someone to turn him, and I did picture Pierce immediately because if he was still on the show, that's exactly how we would use him, and it's a greater fact that he was always at his best as this sort of hapless Obi-Wan or a cautionary tale or unintentional mentor - trying to be a mentor in one way, but actually inspiring in a different way. It just seemed like one of those big moments where it was like, "Man, I really miss having that Pierce character," and I literally pictured him in my head like this Industrial Light & Magic ghost that would appear in front of Jeff and say, "Don't do this. Go back." Then I thought, "Okay, then how do we actually make that happen, logically?" The answer was, "Well, actually what you're describing could just be a hologram, because it doesn't need to be having a conversation with Jeff. He just needs to say something. He just needs to be a vision." He can't be a literal ghost, but he could be a hologram, because Pierce has money, and that seems like the kind of thing you associate with Pierce -- that whole Baby Boomer/Sharper Image kind of technology for its own sake kind of thing. And actually, that would work perfectly, because it would allow Chevy to come back to the show without panicking Sony legal, because he wouldn't be on the set.

I wasn't there when Chevy departed, but I know he had a specific agreement with Sony in which the terms of his departure were contractual and there was an agreement on both sides. I don't really know more details than that except to say that simply bringing him back would be a contractual issue. So I was able to say to the studio, "What if we weren't bringing him back? What if we were shooting him on a separate stage with no other actors around. Would that be allowable?" And they said, "Yes." So it became this idea. I knew Chevy would be on-board because he's an arch character, but I know that at the end of it all he always loved doing the show and would be more than willing to come back. He's very passionate about making people laugh. So I texted him, and he said, "Absolutely, I'll do it." And then there was the weird thing of, we really didn't want that to leak too early because it's such an easy thing to spoil, and it really does spoil it, I think. So we wanted to see if it was possible to keep it under wraps until it aired. We actually kept it a secret from as much of the crew as possible, other than there were some people we needed to shoot Chevy, but we didn't tell anybody that we didn't have to tell. At the table read for the episode, we wrote a fake scene where Jeff is turned by Star-Burns. [Laughs] That's actually, unfortunately, a really funny scene that the actors got really excited about, because it's the reveal that Star-Burns is alive and that he'd been hiding on campus and faking his death to avoid death charges. The question is, why would he pick the campus to hide on? It's the dumbest hiding place in the world, and he doesn't know why, there's just something special about the campus, like it was home or something. And that's what turns Jeff.

 

[timtamWB]

Abed's breakdown is the greatest thing ever.

It just felt like old Community, it was really good and just felt familiar and funny as opposed to the gas leak year

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I liked Jeff finding his feet as a teacher, and stoked to see Chang back in a teaching role.

 

[JUBJUB]

 

[Underdog]

Loved Troy's shock at Braff not lasting the full season

Hardly a surprise that it's immediately better once the school becomes a main focus again.

 

[happy_eagle]

I liked Jeff finding his feet as a teacher

Of Course you did

 

[Underdog]

Also, I wasn't convinced Jonathan Banks would be a big inclusion but his character is great. He's essentially a comedic version of Mike from BB - he plays comedy well.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Loved Troy's shock at Braff not lasting the full season

Hardly a surprise that it's immediately better once the school becomes a main focus again.

Haha yeah, that's probably my favourite moment of the 2 episodes. I've been critical but I enjoyed the irony of it.

I thought episode 1 was a bit weak, but got me excited for the season in Jeffs new teaching role. Episode 2 was decent, I thought it was okay, not amazing and certainly not a lot better than season 4 episodes (which I rewatched the whole season before watching this). Maybe it's the time, but I think a lot of the jokes went over my head. Will probably need to rewatch it.