Community, S03E11
Finally Community came back last week! It was worth the wait to see the gang back to their usual Greendale routine. This episode was mostly about Shirley's second marriage to Andre (Gotta love Theo, aka Malcolm Jamal Warner). This standard ceremony (as standard as a marriage ceremony set up in a room at a college could be) sets the background for everyone to act anything but normal, except perhaps Annie who was unsurprisingly her typical girly self who was dying to get involved with the wedding. It was sort of relief to watch this show after a while (especially fearing that it would never be picked up again) and see that it was still as funny as I remembered.
Greta was her usual self, giving everyone her downer opinion of why marriage was horrible and repressive, but she contradicted all of her complaints by being the "Martha Stewart" of weddings. She could amazingly arrange flowers into a beautiful piece of art and transform that study room into a romantic wonderland that most girls would give their left leg to have their nuptials performed. It was good that she was fighting so hard against her natural instinct to become another "Stepford wife"; sometimes with Greta's need to argue against everything, you forget she's a woman for some reason. She comes off a little manly, I think, because she's not very honest about her feelings and thinks that every establishment is some kind of social scam.
Jeff, as if to mirror Greta, went off in a drunken spiral about how marriage was a lie and would have ruined the ceremony if not for Greta's ranting and Shirley and Andre's fight beforehand. I definitely would have guessed that his parents got divorced, although I don't think that is the main factor that leads him to be so jaded. But the fact that his parents couldn't stay together must have hit him really hard since he couldn't bring himself to just lie and make a semi-decent speech about how wonderful it was that his friend was going to get married. I'm glad that Andre and Shirley got the "marriage is the worst" club to shut up and renewed their vows. I couldn't listen to Jeff whine about how miserable he was made through the loss of his parents' union nor Greta about how she was surrendering to marriage (she should be so lucky that someone would want that brand of crazy to wake up to every morning--though, I bet only Jeff would be able to match that as a husband).
My favorite thing about the wedding was that Shirley asked Abed and Troy to act "normal." Although I love the two to death, I think it is a reasonable request because they have imagination levels that are off the charts at most times. When they decided that they would tone it down for Shirley's sake, I was worried that they would become so stereotypically "normal" that they would be even weirder than usual. Instead, they pulled off normal pretty well! It was hilarious when they were talking to Andre in their sympathetic, "normal" tone, but all he could hear was sarcasm. So great. I almost didn't want them to turn back, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as funny after a while. I mean, it only works in a comedic fashion because it's a contrast to the bizarre rocket these two can get on over even the smallest thing once they have set their mind to it.
On a completely different note, does Pierce look a little younger? It might be perhaps he wasn't dressed too much like a retired old man and his hair isn't as white as it usually was. I'm not entirely sure. I'm a little disappointed that he and Shirley didn't get to have their little sandwich shop together. I think that would have set up some crazy situations down the road. But I guess they don't really need to try hard in Community to set up the weirdness. It will just come naturally as this weird study group interacts with each other.
So glad that Community is back in the NBC mix. It was especially nice since there was no Parks and Recreation to watch last Thursday. I've heard some buzz about Chang (you brought the show back and didn't have him all up in it??) being up to no good in an episode soon, so I'm excited about that. "Senior Chang" was probably one of my favorite characters a while ago, and I have missed the insane stuff he used to say. He best be in the next episode.
Greta was her usual self, giving everyone her downer opinion of why marriage was horrible and repressive, but she contradicted all of her complaints by being the "Martha Stewart" of weddings. She could amazingly arrange flowers into a beautiful piece of art and transform that study room into a romantic wonderland that most girls would give their left leg to have their nuptials performed. It was good that she was fighting so hard against her natural instinct to become another "Stepford wife"; sometimes with Greta's need to argue against everything, you forget she's a woman for some reason. She comes off a little manly, I think, because she's not very honest about her feelings and thinks that every establishment is some kind of social scam.
Jeff, as if to mirror Greta, went off in a drunken spiral about how marriage was a lie and would have ruined the ceremony if not for Greta's ranting and Shirley and Andre's fight beforehand. I definitely would have guessed that his parents got divorced, although I don't think that is the main factor that leads him to be so jaded. But the fact that his parents couldn't stay together must have hit him really hard since he couldn't bring himself to just lie and make a semi-decent speech about how wonderful it was that his friend was going to get married. I'm glad that Andre and Shirley got the "marriage is the worst" club to shut up and renewed their vows. I couldn't listen to Jeff whine about how miserable he was made through the loss of his parents' union nor Greta about how she was surrendering to marriage (she should be so lucky that someone would want that brand of crazy to wake up to every morning--though, I bet only Jeff would be able to match that as a husband).
My favorite thing about the wedding was that Shirley asked Abed and Troy to act "normal." Although I love the two to death, I think it is a reasonable request because they have imagination levels that are off the charts at most times. When they decided that they would tone it down for Shirley's sake, I was worried that they would become so stereotypically "normal" that they would be even weirder than usual. Instead, they pulled off normal pretty well! It was hilarious when they were talking to Andre in their sympathetic, "normal" tone, but all he could hear was sarcasm. So great. I almost didn't want them to turn back, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as funny after a while. I mean, it only works in a comedic fashion because it's a contrast to the bizarre rocket these two can get on over even the smallest thing once they have set their mind to it.
On a completely different note, does Pierce look a little younger? It might be perhaps he wasn't dressed too much like a retired old man and his hair isn't as white as it usually was. I'm not entirely sure. I'm a little disappointed that he and Shirley didn't get to have their little sandwich shop together. I think that would have set up some crazy situations down the road. But I guess they don't really need to try hard in Community to set up the weirdness. It will just come naturally as this weird study group interacts with each other.
So glad that Community is back in the NBC mix. It was especially nice since there was no Parks and Recreation to watch last Thursday. I've heard some buzz about Chang (you brought the show back and didn't have him all up in it??) being up to no good in an episode soon, so I'm excited about that. "Senior Chang" was probably one of my favorite characters a while ago, and I have missed the insane stuff he used to say. He best be in the next episode.
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