{"id":157,"date":"2013-05-03T17:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revued.net\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-05-03T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T17:50:43","slug":"retrovued-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.revued.net\/index.php\/retrovued-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrovued: Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Retrovued is a semi-regular feature where we implore you to try something you should have already.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you don&#8217;t have time to read this post, make sure you series link Community Series 3, Friday 3rd May 11pm on Sony Entertainment Television (Sky 157, Virgin Media 193).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Series 1 trailer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"645\" height=\"363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBCE9oIuN24?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Series 3 trailer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"645\" height=\"363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5hSpoovMWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you have been to visit our house in the past 3 months, chances are you have heard of Community.\u00a0 And chances are you were forced to sit through an episode,\u00a0were too polite not\u00a0to smile and nod when JH starting air-drumming the theme tune (to be fair, if I didn&#8217;t have so many neuroses, I&#8217;d have gotten up and tried to skank to it) and\u00a0when\u00a0left with his expectant face looming down on you afterwards, gave us a resounding &#8216;yeah . . . it&#8217;s ok&#8217; before running for the exit, sobbing and feeling violated.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons we started this site is that none of our friends obsess about TV\/games, or if they do, are not\u00a0into the same TV\/games as us,\u00a0due to the\u00a0fact that we are apparently weirdoes.\u00a0 So we could never shout from the rooftops about something we found that filled us with glee and unbridled joy.\u00a0 That made us what to run around a local park in our pants (in a non sexual way of course) whilst endless spewing forth quotes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s especially hard with Community.\u00a0 If you have ever watched Spaced, and watched it before Shaun\u00a0of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, you&#8217;ll know exactly what I mean.\u00a0 Actually, Community could almost be the ill-fated US version of Spaced that thankfully never was.\u00a0 It is filled with meta-humour and parodies of cinematic tropes that you do really have to be a nerd to get, let alone find so funny you have to pause the DVD to get your ridiculously loud guffawing out of the way so the next line can be heard (JH, I&#8217;m talking to you).\u00a0 It&#8217;s surrealism, but at a whole other level.\u00a0 Father Ted was insane, Black Books dark, Scrubs silly.\u00a0 This is surrealism with bite.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this being series 3 airing tonight on Sony, if you haven&#8217;t seen it before, you probably aren&#8217;t going to get a lot of the jokes.\u00a0 With it&#8217;s referential style, there\u00a0is a lot of nudge-nudge wink-wink\u00a0to previous episodes.\u00a0 So my suggestion is give it a go tonight to see if it&#8217;s your thing.\u00a0 And if the signs look go, watch a few clips on YouTube or the links above to make sure, and if it floats your boat perhaps you might order the DVD boxset for series 1&amp;2 (you probably won&#8217;t find this in any shop, but you will find it on most reputable online retailers).<\/p>\n<p>It started in the US on NBC September 2009, as the brainchild of creator Dan Harman, who after having spent some time taking Spanish classes at a local Community College, decided to write about his own experiences within his study group.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to go into too much detail explaining the premise and story so far as this has already been taken care of very succinctly by that oracle of knowledge, Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community_(TV_series\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community_(TV_series)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I am going to do is tell you to watch this show!\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird, bizarre but oh so knowing.\u00a0 Most of the main characters could be real people, with perhaps the dial on 11 as is true of most sitcoms.\u00a0 No one is the inconceivable moron, the stereotypical jock, the manipulative bitch.\u00a0 They are all these things and none of these things between them.\u00a0 But mostly, it&#8217;s the gags, the glorious, wonderous gags.\u00a0 And\u00a0a dalmatian obsessed cross-dressing Dean.\u00a0 Oh, and a deranged, sociopathic former Spanish tutor called Senor Chang.\u00a0 Ok, so some of the characters could not be real people.<\/p>\n<p>I wish this post could just be a stream of quotes to show you how good it is, but I won&#8217;t be able to do them justice so hurry and check out YouTube.\u00a0 <strong>Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrovued is a semi-regular feature where we implore you to try something you should have already. 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