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Friday, November 12th, 2010
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Here's Another Reason For You To Love Community

by | November 12th, 2010

Last night's Community lived up to the hype. A perfect distillation of what makes the show great, it was chock full of character jokes, callbacks and visual gags all laid on top of a solid structure and capped off with an amazing button.

And here's the cherry on top: check out the above animated gif. It shows the pen that the episode was based around being snatched off the table in a nearly imperceptible way. But it's in there, and the intention was confirmed in a tweet by show creator Dan Harmon.

It's this sort of attention to detail, these little gifts to fans, that shows how much love is put into this show. You get the impression that the folks behind it see it as their baby, and they put everything they've got into it. And it shows! While I love 30 Rock a whole lot, this season it's Community that I'm most excited to tuck into on Thursday nights. There are just no other shows out there that get this much fun and joy on the screen week after week. And while it doesn't get the highest ratings, it's heartening to see NBC order an additional two episodes for this season. The way things have been going, with the show just consistently getting better, for it to be cancelled now would be a crime.

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community, dan harmon, nbc, tv

  • JaffaCakes

    This is fantastic! Agreed with you that I look forward to Community more than 30 Rock on Thursdays – hell, I look forward to it more than any other show right now.

    I admit, though, that I thought the pen had been accidentally put into one of the paper-mache creatures. The appearance by Annie's Boobs at the end of the episode was creepy/awesome.

  • FubarGuy

    This show snuck up on me. I started vowing not to watch it, just seemed to be trying to hard and Chevy Chase seemed like a horrible placement at first. Then every week or two, I'd catch a few minutes and think "Well, this isn't the steaming pile of crap I expected." Now it's got a Season Pass on the Tivo and I'll have to go back & watch the initial episodes I skipped. I am shamed and yet grateful all at once.