Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television
- Episode aired Jun 2, 2015
- TV-Y
- 27m
As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven.As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven.As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAnnie and Jeff both criticize Marvel comics films, an inside joke at the expense of Joe Russo and Anthony Russo who worked on Community prior to directing films for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Brother: [gag commercial for the Community board game] Sorry dad, guess I win!
Father: You stupid child. Nobody's winning anything. Don't you see? This means we don't exist. We're not created by God.
[drops the tiny script replica]
Father: We're created by a joke. We were never born, and we will never actually live.
[family in stunned silence]
Brother: [rapid-fire disclaimer] Dice not included, some assembly required. Lines between perception, desire, and reality may become blurred, redundant, or interchangeable. Characters may hook up with no regard for your emotional investment. Some episodes to conceptual to be funny. Some too funny to be immersive, and some so immersive they still aren't funny. Consistency between seasons may vary. Viewers may be measured by a secretive obsolete system based on selected participants keeping hand-written journals of what they watched. Show may be canceled and moved to the Internet where it turns out 10s of millions were watching the whole time - may not matter. Fake commercial may end with disclaimer gag which may descend into vain Chuck Lorre-esque rant by narcissistic creator. Creator may be unstable. Therapist may have told creator this is not how you make yourself a good person. Life may pass by while we mistreat those close to us. Those close to us may be those watching. Those people may want to know I love them, but I may be incapable of saying it. Contains pieces the size child's esophagus.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Episodes of Community (2015)
- SoundtracksGreendale is Where I Belong
Performed by Ludwig Göransson
Not all the episodes work as well as the others, but generally the quality is pretty high and as a fan of the show it felt to me that it was on more of the tracks that had made me originally enjoy it so much. This is quite an achievement when you look at the cast, because three of the originals have left for other things, and a replacement added to the fifth season has also left. The writers make good on this, with inside jokes and generally balancing the material across the cast. The addition of Brewster as Frankie works better than I expected, but never feels totally part of the show. The remainder do well, and Keith David does well as the replacement for the replacement. Otherwise the rest of the cast are good, and some nice interplays step up to replace those lost.
It is the writing that makes the cast able to deliver well though. It is smart, funny, self-aware, and able to make us care for the characters while also having a dark edge (in particular to some of the 'credits' sequences). The fourth season may have been weak, but the fifth and sixth made it worth coming back, and in particular this season produces a fitting way for the show to bow out – with the last episode working on many levels.
- bob the moo
- Feb 21, 2017