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[luunamoona]

i find it interesting how the dean being gay is rarely, if ever, used a punchline in the show. unlike the troy x abed relationship, which is often met with gay jokes made at their expense throughout the show, the dean's open queerness isn't. i guess it must be due to the speculativeness of troy and abed. they aren't ever confirmed to be more than friends, so they're made fun of due to the closeness of their "friendship". however, the dean is openly and confirmed to be queer. the limited jokes at his expense made for this aspect of himself is most likely due to this fact, that his identity isn't something that could be seen as "silly straight man does a gay", so it would be less funny if the joke is instead "look at gay man isn't it funny that he's gay".

idk i'm just yapping

[luunamoona]

i hate how the season 4 writers made the dean more annoying when it came to jeff like borderline homophobia with how they made jeff look so much more uncomfortable in that season around the dean than in any other one

[luunamoona]

i like how politics exist within community, but very subtly. one example is the mention of pierce's story in spanish 101 being "critical of israel" and having the best character in the show (objectively) be from a palestinian family. these, i assume, is harmon telling us his outlook on israel-palestine, though done more in the background rather than being a big statement. also, when pierce mentioned how he'd "get his teeth knocked out by a republican", this is harmon portraying republicans as violent and aggressive, further telling us his politics, though doing it subtly.

there are, of course, more overt examples, like in queer studies and advanced waxing. this episode is a direct criticism of institutions pretending to be queer friendly despite being historically hostile towards queer people. another great example of this is in advanced gay, where the message is essentially the same, except being more focussed on rainbow capitalism when pierce says "they cost more, but they're gayer".

this is all speculation and i have no idea if these are the actual views of dan harmon or not, i just needed to get back into writing longer things.

[luunamoona]

i have a theory that troy and abed are both bottoms cos in season one in the episode where abed had that list of things he wanted to do in college they both put prezels in their asses and neither seems fazed, implying that it was something they're used to, therefore suggesting to us that they're both bottoms.

thank you for coming to me ted talk

[luunamoona]

jeff winger and brad bakshi are very similar characters. both work (or have worked) in positions that are thought of by many as being staffed only by morally bankrupt people, they both have family-related trauma and, most importantly, they both try to give an impression of apathy and uncaringness despite them actually having emotions and morals. jeff always says how he doesn't care about anything that's going on, despite in many episodes (such as in conspiracy theories and interior design, and in advanced criminal law) going out of his way to help his friends. it's the same with brad, him always saying that he does everything for his own gain, despite going out of his way to get dana rehired for rachel and with him trying to get MQ to not hire zack, despite him easily being able to get a job at a different place. this is because he cares for MQ and the people working there. i have a theory that megan ganz may have taken some inspiration from jeff in the writing of the character, although i'm not totally sure who wrote who.

i really like mythic quest so i might make more posts about it.

[luunamoona]

need a community spin-off series where professor radisson is a serial killer killing off various members of the different comminity college glee clubs of colorado in the run up to regionals and all the other competitions. as the series progresses, he becomes more on edge because, like macbeth, he's haunted by the guilt of his murders. we have basically the entire show just be a macbeth homage, having that one woman from interperative dance acting as a lady macbeth stand in.

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season 1 of community was like normal and calm, average college comedy. then immediately in the first episode of the second season we had betty white shooting jeff with an improvised projectile hammer. they really ramord shit up immediately and like never cooled down. it's like putting someone in a room and telling them you're gonna give them some drugs, start by just giving them one benedryl then then immediately after just fill them up with fentanyl and heroin. still amazing show, 12/10.

[luunamoona]

i feel like abed's autism is portrayed in such an accurate way because he was actually written by an autistic person. abed even wasn't played by an autistic person and i don't feel like that's what's important about the accuracy of the performance. accuracy comes from experience, and even if an autistic actor has that experience being autistic, their limited by how their character is written to be. having that writer have that experience required to make an accurate character and putting that experience into the character through the script is far more effective at making a good character than an actor having experience since their acting is at the whim of the director and writer. this isn't me saying that we shouldn't try and have more autistic characters played by autistic actors since i do still think this is important for a good performance, i'm just making this to say how it's also important for the character to be written by an autistic person too.

[luunamoona]

i need the communitu movie to have everyone having realised that they're queer if this doesn't happen i shan't consider it canon

[luunamoona]

Fell in love with him in this episode and just went too far.

[luunamoona]

yeah i think pierce as a character could've been utilised well and been a useful addition to the cast but unfortunately he was played by the devil and so we were not afforded such things

i never really understood why pierce was there. like he was just there to be laughed at for being ignorant and creepy, then i guess he was meant to be a kind of villain. but then he supposedly redeemed himself at the end of season 2, but is still kinda just an asshole in seasons 3 and 4. it got to a point where he just wasn't funny (that point came very fast) and he just became a nuisance. to me it's a lot like how i view ren yamai in komi can't communicate, a character with no real meaning but being there for me to utterly despise and for me to hate reading any chapters that she appears in. back to pierce, why did he get so many chances for forgiveness? it started in episode 2, where he directly rejected the assignment given to him, to the point where jeff repeatedly telling him that they should be doing the assignment did nothing to sway him, then suddenly it's jeff's fault? and then that makes jeff get an F on the assignment?? and pierce is still not in the wrong??? literally made jeff fail and we still gotta forgive him. and why are we supposed to feel sorry for him in economics of marine biology? my guy you have been consistently a racist, a homophobe and all around an asshole throughout this entire show i do not feel sorry for you. when shirley said he died in basic intergluteal numismatics that was some of the biggest relief i've felt in my life istg.

[luunamoona]

i'm having a really hard time putting this into words so here's my deranged and incoherent ramble:

abed being in cougar town is the most incredible fourth wall break ever. it's not deadpool talking to the camera kind of intense demolition of the wall or abed saying they might be on a tv show levels of gently tapping on that wall, it's more like the wall just kinda crumbled but no one acknowledged it or cared. the prescence of abed as a character on cougar town is the show acknowledging itself as a tv show whilst having none of the characters interact with that knowledge. they literally just have this one scene where they just tell us "yeah this is a show, none of this is it's own universe, these characters are not real, in every universe and continuity imaginable, this is a television programme." holy fuck this is wrinkling my brain so goddamn hard i cannot explain in coherent speak what i'm trying to explain so just like think about this occurence for more than 5 seconds and your brain shall be wrinkled in that same way as mine has been.

[luunamoona]

i saw that train and immediately thought "MIKU!!" what is wrong with me i can never see teal the same way again

[luunamoona]

magnitude was great. he only ever said one thing, and yet it could bring life to an entire room. he was never annoying, he never overstepped boundaries, all he ever was was a legend. i do genuinely love how like whenever magnitude said pop pop i was always excited. like it was never "ugh here's magnitude bet he's just gonna say pop pop again" it was always "hey look magnitude can't wait for that pop pop". and that's how every character responded to him. they were never annoyed with him, always happier from that pop pop. i think that's perfectly demonstrated with just how distraught everyone was when archie tried to take it from him. archie was given everything he wanted, but that pop pop was ome step too far. the respect everyone had for magnitude was honestly so cool and really reinforced how greendale was a place of belonging and acceptance.

[luunamoona]

my personal opinion is that charlie from iasip is the best character to ever be concieved in any piece of media and that opinion will never change

more shows need to have a chang character like there are so many shows that can be improved if we just had this one side character who was completely unpredictable and could do anything at any time. if i ever make a tv show, i'll add in just a dude who lives in the forest who's brain has been permanently damaged by the wilderness who's basically feral and you never know if he's just gonna snap and kill everyone in the room.

[luunamoona]

more shows need to have a chang character like there are so many shows that can be improved if we just had this one side character who was completely unpredictable and could do anything at any time. if i ever make a tv show, i'll add in just a dude who lives in the forest who's brain has been permanently damaged by the wilderness who's basically feral and you never know if he's just gonna snap and kill everyone in the room.

[luunamoona]

more shows need to have a chang character like there are so many shows that can be improved if we just had this one side character who was completely unpredictable and could do anything at any time. if i ever make a tv show, i'll add in just a dude who lives in the forest who's brain has been permanently damaged by the wilderness who's basically feral and you never know if he's just gonna snap and kill everyone in the room.