Sunday, 6 December 2009

"Well, this isn't going to be your mother's sexually transmitted disease awareness fair!"

This is something I've been meaning to write about for ages, but for some reason haven't.

Not sexually transmitted disease awareness fairs, you understand.

Community, in my opinion, is the best show that started this fall. For those of you unfamiliar, it stars The Soup's Joel McHale as a lawyer's whose college degree is found out to be less than legitimate and is forced to go to a community college in order to obtain a degree so he may practice law again. While McHale is fantastic (my favourite line of his: "Move on with my life? Schmove schmon schmith schmy schmife!"), so much of the comedy is brought by the ensemble cast, and even the minor recurring characters. My favourites are:

Abed: I think we are kindred spirits. The entire first episode practically all he did was quote lines from the Breakfast Club. Plus he does an AMAZING Batman impression.
Troy: His high school's politically conservative shamefully outdated fight rap is one of the funniest things I've ever heard: "Bing bong, sing along. Your team's Al Gore cos you're views are wrong!"
Pierce: These people were so lucky to get Chevy Chase. The man makes eating a slice of pizza look hysterical
Senor Chang: "I am a Spanish genius! In EspaƱol my nickname is El Tigre Chino! Because my knowledge will BITE her face off!"
Vaughn: "You're toxic, Britta. You know, you're like the exact opposite of an anti-oxidant. Psh, yah!"
Professor Duncan: And not just because he's British and played by John Oliver

Brought to you by Joe and Anthony Russo (they directed Arrested Development, so you know they're good), this show is filled with people that are so zany yet so real, they may just remind you of your friends or yourself. If you haven't yet, watch it.






Much love. x

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This seriously is one of the best shows I have ever seen.

I also started watching Modern Family, and it is great as well.