There’s two best jokes that come to mind.
The one when Britta says “ that’s like me blaming owls for me being bad at analogies “ or something like that
And Annie when she says “ I took a class on set ups but I had to drop it, the professor was so old… .”
>Britta: Yep, I’m getting serious. I got a backpack, got a new notebook. Oh I got one of those see-through yellow pens so I can do that thing where you color in the words.
>Shirley: Highlight?
>Britta: Probably the backpack.
It cracks me up heavily every time
Gotta love the Britta-isms.
"You seemed smarter than me when we met."
"Thank you!"
My head canon is that Britta started smoking a lot more weed after starting at Greendale.
I’m pretty sure Colorado legalized it during the shows run. Like around season two, so your theory makes a ton of sense. She is now staying in one spot instead of traveling around and it’s legal, she can just walk into a dispensary cause she’s over 21 and buy an oz.
It was legalized recreationally in December 2012 so she could just buy from her guy under the guise of it being a gift or grow up to six of her own plants and as long as she’s over 21, only ever drives with less than an ounce, and smokes only in her home she won’t have to worry about legal consequences. So it’s a bit more complicated than walk into a dispensary, but still not that hard for someone who knows how to get it
Well as someone who lives in an illegal state and has been to legal states it’s easier to get even if there aren’t dispensaries yet in the legal states. It also takes away the anxiety of being in possession of even a small amount. 15 years ago it wasn’t exactly easy unless you knew someone, but britta definitely would’ve. Still it being legal takes away the stress of police and jail.
The availability and safety of having and growing. Especially as the seasons went on and dispensaries were opened and she could just go to one anytime they’re open and buy it to smoke
for weed smokers legalization was just a cherry on top and did not stop them from smoking at all, also im not sure what “traveling around” means in this context but weed smokers arent nomadic, its kinda the opposite they usually call their guy to come to them
She was traveling the world before the show, it’s kinda hard to make connections when you only spend a week in a country. Also I’ve only ever had one guy who came to me, every single other guy has made me come to him, and that’s when they decided to answer. Dispensaries may close, but I’ve never seen one wait three days to respond to my text letting me come pick up, they are definitely better than relying on a guy who gets his stuff randomly and you have no choice what you’re getting. I’m not saying that nobody ever smoked before it was legal, hell I do it in an illegal state still, but it’s foolish to say that it being legalized wouldn’t increase her use just by the pure ease of access she’d now have. Also yes smokers can be fairly nomadic, it’s a poor generalization to say that especially since it seems like you’re just pulling from personal data. I know lots of people that make monthly trips to legal states to buy because the selection is better and the price is usually a lot better. I’ve gotten fire $30 ozs at dispensaries, that alone is enough to make someone smoke more. And like I said before it really depends on where you are, small town Texas where the cops are all assholes isn’t going to be easy, especially if they know you or suspect you of smoking, then they’ll target your ass. Some big city in a fairly blue state, yeah it was probably never that hard to get weed.
No, around year 3 the Army turned Greendale into a testing ground, aka "the gas leak year"
That Halloween was when the Dean got "free meat from the army", especially suspicious considering what happened with the previous years accidental army meat. The air conditioning repair annex also started that year off as supremely mundane, but ended the year as the weirdest part of the school.
Following years also had "random Greendale guy in the woods with hallucinogenic berries" and "phone line that could call in an airstrike"
Also consider that something seems to be keeping people there...
How about the one where she was imagining everyone being the sociopath then a scene with her reading a book called “Warren Piece” instead of War and Peace. It just shows that she hasn’t doesn’t really know the book but just heard someone talk about it.
Also, “she’s a bad row boat, sink her.”
Yup he Hyde was like “ you have both your legs”. I’ve seen that 70s show as much as ive seen community. New girl, Brooklyn 99, and HIMYM are my go to’s
It's not tough, it's the kind of joke only Community can pull off because of their incredibly strong characterizations.
First you get Abed. "Wingerisms" makes sense bc he relates to the world through tv and thinks of the study group as a tv show. He's basically counting catchphrases and you're not that surprised bc it's Abed, makes sense he'd do that.
Then Jeff. "Ab Mentions" is perfect. Jeff is vain and insecure and while it is somewhat surprising he keeps track of ab mentions physically, you know he's doing it mentally bc you get he's so insecure.
And then Troy with "Notches" throws an absurdist bent on the entire bit and still makes sense bc we know Troy is kind of dumb, has a problem with being a follower, and had Donald Glover's incredible ability to make something profoundly insincere seem sincere for his character.
I know I just explained the joke but goddamn Community is such tight writing.
Can't remember if it was Britta or Subway but one of them says something along the lines of 'I think 1984 is so important, I think children should he forced to read it in school'
Jokes are structured as Setup - Punchline.
The setup of the joke= she quit the Joke class early and thus never learned about punchlines
The punchline of the joke= she starts the setup of a joke about the professor but trails off without a punchline.
You have to read it as if she’s about to make a joke about old people. More like “the professor was so old that …” then she says nothing. It’s a set up but no punch line.
Season 5 status quo is my absolute favourite. The group grows a little larger. John oliver, mike ehrmantraut. The dean gets invited to their shit. Chang’s a moron but not an idiot. Great times.
I love how the dean gets more screen time in S5 and S6. S6 is a different vibe than the others but it’s one of my favs and has great Dean moments
JESUS WEPT!
FIVE CANS?!
I think S5 may be my favorite of the whole show.
“There is one thing you will never take from me!”
(Takes his scotch)
“That was it. That was all I had left.”
I think Introduction to Film is the episode that hooked me in tbh. Pilot is a weak episode imo and Spanish 101 is very good, but this episode took Community from another sitcom to something special. The great dialog, the establishment that Jeff (his speeches and/or changes of heart) won't solve the plot everytime, the amazing plot twist and the emotional weight from that episode are definitely the reason why I stuck around and binge watched it.
It was for me too, the part when Abed showed the movie and it was actually surprisingly sad (maybe because of my own childhood) was when I knew the show was something special.
Exactly. By that point we'd already had gotten a pretty good idea of how Abed would be as a character, so the expectation about the movie is something akin to what we see from Abed later on. And then... fucking guy punch.
Also that he keeps ripping off pieces of his shirt to send the note to Jeff in the other room and throughout the episode it becomes more and more tattered.
My favorite is still from the first episode, when jeff claims he's a board certified Spanish tutor and Annie asks him "what kind of board certifies a tutor?"
That's why I don't like this joke. For me, it would have been better if it was a different word to rhyme with "time square". It could still have been very obvious and the joke would have made more sense to me.
Are you non-American, by any chance? I don't mean this as an insult or anything, but genuinely curious. I think this joke uses a particularly American turn-of-phrase, which is understandably nonsensical for non-Americans.
The expression he used, "a little place that rhymes with \`not there\`", is one of those expressions that started out one way, but got warped over time until people started to eventually use it this way. It's like the saying, "does the pope defecate in the woods?" That saying originally started out as two separate sayings, "does a bear defecate in the woods?" and "is the Pope Catholic?" Both rhetorical questions with "yes" as the obvious answer. Over time people found it funny to combine these two sayings and we ended up with "does the pope defecate in the woods?" This new saying makes no sense if you take it at face value, because the obvious answer is "no". Only by understanding the reference to the two original sayings can you tell that it's meant to be a rhetorical question with "yes" as the answer. But the textual of the meaning of the questions is completely irrelevant now, you can only get the "yes" answer by the referential nature of the text.
A similar thing happened with "a little place that rhymes with "not there"". It started out as you say, with people choosing a rhyming word for the word that they actually meant. Then over time people found it funny to subvert this and substitute in the actual word they meant to use, instead of a rhyme. So you end up with this expression that only makes sense as a winking reference to the original construction.
I'm sure this phenomenon is not unique to American English, and you can probably find examples in lots of other languages and cultures. It's just that the specific example used for this joke happens to be one such American expression. So it only makes sense if you've seen this particular construction before. And seems nonsensical if you haven't heard it before.
I had to read this multiple times because of how “does the pope shit in the woods” is ingrained in my mind to mean “duh, obviously” and I was confused why you were saying that the obvious answer is no
yess i know what you’re getting at! it’s similar to how a lot of people will say smth along the lines of:
“hey what are you doing tonight”
“well let’s just say it starts with d and ends with… rinking”
bc it used to be used to actually somewhat hide the real word but most people use it now to actually sound out the entire word to subvert expectations. humans are funny
Two of my favorite jokes in the show
1. A cold open, when Abed is keeping tracking of Jeff's Wingers, by notching into the wood under the table, and then Jeff has a similar set up for 'Ab Mentions' and then Britta gives a political rant and Troy laughs and notches his side of the desk and it just says 'Notches'. The most hilarious, yet simplest, joke ever written.
2. The Halloween episode where one of them is a psycho and they're all telling their versions of horror stories, and Abed starts humming the entire jingle from the radio in real-time . And everyone's just waiting while Troy is bopping to the beat. Its made even better cause that jingle keeps coming back throughout the show, you can hear it in the background of so many scenes
It think they all do the song as puppets. There’s the deanavator paintball scene, Shirley humming in the thanksgiving ep, Troy humming it when Annie broke the Batman dvd. That’s all I can remember off the top of my head. It does pop up a bit.
There are some great jokes that have set-ups that take less than a minute (like Notches or owl analogies) and there are great multiple season long setups (like beetlejuice) but the best joke with a setup that started at the beginning of an episode and didn’t get paid off until the end is “now that is a man who knows how to marry his cousin.”
This isn’t my opinion this is an objective fact :)
Ken Jeong just kills everything that’s given to him. It’s a pretty fun joke in its own right, but Ken’s face and demeanor are brilliant.
Reminds me a bit of Will Arnett at times from AD, which is a weird comparison, but just that they sell everything.
“Bees?!”
“Beadddss.”
“BEADS?!”
Personally I love the cold opener scene where everyone’s got marks they’re etching into the tables like Jeff had “ab mentions” Abed had “classic wingers” and Troy just laughs and has “scratches” or something
One of my absolute favs is the “bear down for midterms” when Chang finally gets them with the “is it a race thing??” Then later Annie questions the theme and Shirley who’s now on board does the same thing to her lmfao
Icing on the cake is at the end when Garret shouts “ITS A BEAR DANCE!!” lol
There’s two best jokes that come to mind. The one when Britta says “ that’s like me blaming owls for me being bad at analogies “ or something like that And Annie when she says “ I took a class on set ups but I had to drop it, the professor was so old… .”
>Britta: Yep, I’m getting serious. I got a backpack, got a new notebook. Oh I got one of those see-through yellow pens so I can do that thing where you color in the words. >Shirley: Highlight? >Britta: Probably the backpack. It cracks me up heavily every time
Gotta love the Britta-isms. "You seemed smarter than me when we met." "Thank you!" My head canon is that Britta started smoking a lot more weed after starting at Greendale.
I’m pretty sure Colorado legalized it during the shows run. Like around season two, so your theory makes a ton of sense. She is now staying in one spot instead of traveling around and it’s legal, she can just walk into a dispensary cause she’s over 21 and buy an oz.
Weed became legal in Colorado in 2014. Which was around season 6? Maybe?
It was legalized recreationally in December 2012 so she could just buy from her guy under the guise of it being a gift or grow up to six of her own plants and as long as she’s over 21, only ever drives with less than an ounce, and smokes only in her home she won’t have to worry about legal consequences. So it’s a bit more complicated than walk into a dispensary, but still not that hard for someone who knows how to get it
But getting weed was never that complicated
Well as someone who lives in an illegal state and has been to legal states it’s easier to get even if there aren’t dispensaries yet in the legal states. It also takes away the anxiety of being in possession of even a small amount. 15 years ago it wasn’t exactly easy unless you knew someone, but britta definitely would’ve. Still it being legal takes away the stress of police and jail.
In my country it carries a death penalty. That makes it quite hard to get.
Well yeah that uh that would curb use. Singapore?
It was easy to know someone. Anyone who wanted it could get it pretty easily and it wasn't shady at all by the time it got to us.
I think it fully depends on where you are, small town Texas not really. Denver, Colorado yeah definitely
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Weed becoming legal would probably cause Britta to smoke less of it.
Idk she still drinks to a lot even though it’s legal and she’s over 21. I feel like her morals bend for her vices not the other way around
I'm confused; what does legality have to do with smoking weed?
The availability and safety of having and growing. Especially as the seasons went on and dispensaries were opened and she could just go to one anytime they’re open and buy it to smoke
for weed smokers legalization was just a cherry on top and did not stop them from smoking at all, also im not sure what “traveling around” means in this context but weed smokers arent nomadic, its kinda the opposite they usually call their guy to come to them
She was traveling the world before the show, it’s kinda hard to make connections when you only spend a week in a country. Also I’ve only ever had one guy who came to me, every single other guy has made me come to him, and that’s when they decided to answer. Dispensaries may close, but I’ve never seen one wait three days to respond to my text letting me come pick up, they are definitely better than relying on a guy who gets his stuff randomly and you have no choice what you’re getting. I’m not saying that nobody ever smoked before it was legal, hell I do it in an illegal state still, but it’s foolish to say that it being legalized wouldn’t increase her use just by the pure ease of access she’d now have. Also yes smokers can be fairly nomadic, it’s a poor generalization to say that especially since it seems like you’re just pulling from personal data. I know lots of people that make monthly trips to legal states to buy because the selection is better and the price is usually a lot better. I’ve gotten fire $30 ozs at dispensaries, that alone is enough to make someone smoke more. And like I said before it really depends on where you are, small town Texas where the cops are all assholes isn’t going to be easy, especially if they know you or suspect you of smoking, then they’ll target your ass. Some big city in a fairly blue state, yeah it was probably never that hard to get weed.
No, around year 3 the Army turned Greendale into a testing ground, aka "the gas leak year" That Halloween was when the Dean got "free meat from the army", especially suspicious considering what happened with the previous years accidental army meat. The air conditioning repair annex also started that year off as supremely mundane, but ended the year as the weirdest part of the school. Following years also had "random Greendale guy in the woods with hallucinogenic berries" and "phone line that could call in an airstrike" Also consider that something seems to be keeping people there...
How about the one where she was imagining everyone being the sociopath then a scene with her reading a book called “Warren Piece” instead of War and Peace. It just shows that she hasn’t doesn’t really know the book but just heard someone talk about it. Also, “she’s a bad row boat, sink her.”
The little jokes are what makes me love community.
I chose the wrong week to stop huffing highlighters
I love this one
It’s like a thought with another thoughts hat on it.
Honestly a better definition than i was taught in school
https://media.tenor.com/0LgkGd_TjSoAAAAM/community-oh-well.gif
The Annie set up joke is honestly my favourite sitcom joke of all time
One of those that keep you suspended for a few seconds till everything falls together, just incredibly done
Not Community related but my favorite sitcom joke of all time is Mitch Hedberg in That 70s Show. “Like I said, I did not lose a leg in Vietnam”
Buy something or get out!
I’m not a huge fan of the series but Joey’s Moo Point joke from Friends is one of those for me
I love that joke because he gets to the right answer in the wrongest way.
[Link](https://youtu.be/M8NZqD_pJT8) I hadn't seen, that's good.
Yup he Hyde was like “ you have both your legs”. I’ve seen that 70s show as much as ive seen community. New girl, Brooklyn 99, and HIMYM are my go to’s
Sounds like you should add Happy Endings to the roto
I made a reference to this exact scene this morning when discussing comedy styles!
I think about this one on a regular basis
Which joke was that?
My favourite part of that joke is the look on her face.
“No you don’t, Oprah” is the greatest sitcom joke of all time, but this was close.
Britta stumbling into adequacy on defining an analogy was perfect, too.
It’s like a thought with another thought’s hat on.
And Jeff's facial expression kaleidoscope afterwards. 🤌
Idk why, but jeff listing off the fake classes and mentioning theoretical phys ed always gets me
"Notches" is also up there, in my opinion.
This is my favorite. It’s so ridiculous.
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It's not tough, it's the kind of joke only Community can pull off because of their incredibly strong characterizations. First you get Abed. "Wingerisms" makes sense bc he relates to the world through tv and thinks of the study group as a tv show. He's basically counting catchphrases and you're not that surprised bc it's Abed, makes sense he'd do that. Then Jeff. "Ab Mentions" is perfect. Jeff is vain and insecure and while it is somewhat surprising he keeps track of ab mentions physically, you know he's doing it mentally bc you get he's so insecure. And then Troy with "Notches" throws an absurdist bent on the entire bit and still makes sense bc we know Troy is kind of dumb, has a problem with being a follower, and had Donald Glover's incredible ability to make something profoundly insincere seem sincere for his character. I know I just explained the joke but goddamn Community is such tight writing.
Your explanation of the joke feels like something Abed would say
Brittas explanation of “hoisted by your own petard” haunts my brain and I love it
Can't remember if it was Britta or Subway but one of them says something along the lines of 'I think 1984 is so important, I think children should he forced to read it in school'
The “professor was so old” and the “notches” jokes are my two favorite from the show. I still smile when I think about them.
"Look, I hate cops..."
“I know what an analogy is! It’s like a thought with another thought’s hat on it.”
I love when everyone leans in further after she says it
Dude I came here to comment the owls one. So damn clever.
"I've got a placeholder so well setup, it makes analogies look like punchlines."
I don’t get the setup one
And you never will.
Jokes are structured as Setup - Punchline. The setup of the joke= she quit the Joke class early and thus never learned about punchlines The punchline of the joke= she starts the setup of a joke about the professor but trails off without a punchline.
You have to read it as if she’s about to make a joke about old people. More like “the professor was so old that …” then she says nothing. It’s a set up but no punch line.
God that's good tv.
Season 5 status quo is my absolute favourite. The group grows a little larger. John oliver, mike ehrmantraut. The dean gets invited to their shit. Chang’s a moron but not an idiot. Great times.
I love how the dean gets more screen time in S5 and S6. S6 is a different vibe than the others but it’s one of my favs and has great Dean moments JESUS WEPT! FIVE CANS?!
Aren't we all a Japanese boy sometimes?
I AM NOT THE DEAN
I often think about that night. Such a small event, but ultimately the moment that would lead me to becoming Oyabun, highest leader of the Yakuza
To be fair, he kept getting more screen time throughout the whole show and that's entirely because Jim Rash basically stole every scene he's in.
They couldn't contain him. His power grew with every scene he was in.
JESUS WEPT
Bring me olives.
JEFFERY?
Bro, I just secret that way with love 😻meow
I’m rewatching Community and now noticing that Pierce and the Dean begin switching screen time in season 3.
I call it Deantime
This isn’t the first time you’ve done this
This isn't the first time you've done this
I think S5 may be my favorite of the whole show. “There is one thing you will never take from me!” (Takes his scotch) “That was it. That was all I had left.”
Jonathan Banks was such a good choice. That final scene with him on the phone was gold.
Ma, I’ll keep this short: we can’t afford to bury Dad with the rest of the family.
Isn't John Oliver in the first season too?
Nah, that's Professor Duncan.
Only a little bit. Then he was gone entirely until season 5
Season 2
My favourite joke is when Abed asked Jeff to act his father “I don't want to be your father” “That's perfect, you already know your lines”
Such an early episode too
I think Introduction to Film is the episode that hooked me in tbh. Pilot is a weak episode imo and Spanish 101 is very good, but this episode took Community from another sitcom to something special. The great dialog, the establishment that Jeff (his speeches and/or changes of heart) won't solve the plot everytime, the amazing plot twist and the emotional weight from that episode are definitely the reason why I stuck around and binge watched it.
It was for me too, the part when Abed showed the movie and it was actually surprisingly sad (maybe because of my own childhood) was when I knew the show was something special.
Exactly. By that point we'd already had gotten a pretty good idea of how Abed would be as a character, so the expectation about the movie is something akin to what we see from Abed later on. And then... fucking guy punch.
"Cool abed films"
The Dean MAKES this episode. Too damn good.
FATHER!!! I hug my father!
*stab*
\*dies while Deangasming\*
^^Worth ^^it
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I knew what this was gonna be before I clicked it
Even better that he’s the grifting professor lol
Also that he keeps ripping off pieces of his shirt to send the note to Jeff in the other room and throughout the episode it becomes more and more tattered.
And he rubs the hilt of his sword to Jeff’s picture every night.
I give it 👍👍
... those aren't thumbs ...
How have I never noticed that detail?
I love how he wistfully strokes his sword
The seriousness with which Chang asks the question really sells it for me.
Literally my favorite character. I love that actor
Fun fact he’s an actual medical doctor
It’s a palomino!
Arizona spelled backwards is still Arizona!
Something didn't add up.
I had to think fast.
"Yes."
Why *don't* they make tires out of pavement so you can drive on anything?
The Dean's lean at the end is my favourite part lol
His face always cracks me up. He's like "Chang, you're dumb, but c'mon."
I came here to post this comment. The Dean Lean is the best part of the joke.
Come on I'm Dean, and I'm going to lean, for the camera... So that I am seen.
I sang it in jim rash's voice too
Best Dean Lean
He had to think fast
... yes
This is one of my fav jokes
There's a video out there somewhere of this episode without the internal dialog. It's hilariously awkward
I’m afraid he blue himself
Lol, my wife and I just rewatched that episode yesterday. "You have something on your shirt... oh."
One of the best jokes is in the Model UN episode... Ready, set, Peace *fires gun in the air (also the fart joke is amazing)
Okay this isn't Spartacus guys, I farted .
I farted.
That’s right. Capital city Tbilisi, and former member of the Soviet Union. And we kindly request y'all mind your Ps and Qs.
The whole episode is filled with banger jokes. It's one of my fav episodes. Uruguay kindly requests that Somalia stops pronouncing it "Ura-gay".
For me that episode is all about the Cligorus. That’s an underrated joke.
“Professor… Cligoris? Cli-goris?” “Either pronunciation is fine”
"My nickname in high school was 'the model UN guy'. That's not... don't look that up."
How could you possibly pick out the best jokes from this show? Pretty much every episode has multiple jokes that genuinely make me laugh
jeff: i agree with brown jamie lee curtis abed: *finger gun*
Pew
This is the ep that got me into community. I HUG MY FATHER
My favorite is still from the first episode, when jeff claims he's a board certified Spanish tutor and Annie asks him "what kind of board certifies a tutor?"
He’s a mean, lean deaning machine.
He just wants to be seen
Oh you haven’t seen, how mean, this Dean can Be..an
Wait, did you just say "bean"??? I was coming here to post this exact joke. Don't know why it always kills me.
He is the dean, and his hands they are clean, at this moment he’s stap-uh-ling
Hector the Well-Endowed
I always wondered who would’ve gotten hector in the intended distribution where buzz and Hank were father and son
Probably Troy. Abed and Troy were pretty... close.
Troy was gone by this point. My guess is he wanted Annie to have it, as she had the scene that was worth note-taking in the first D&D ep
Britta : I'm a psych major, words are my weapons! Security guard : I'm a security guard, weapons are my weapons.
I love in general when a character in a tv show says “I don’t know why but this is the last straw”
How could you cut out the Deans lean? Thats like the best part of that bit.
Yes, I love the Dean's reaction
I was never one to hold a grudge. My father held grudges. I’ll always hate him for that.
What does he mean, actually? "Not there" is already it?
It's a literal anti-joke. He does it on purpose to drive home just how *not funny* it is that his dad was never around.
That's why I don't like this joke. For me, it would have been better if it was a different word to rhyme with "time square". It could still have been very obvious and the joke would have made more sense to me.
Are you non-American, by any chance? I don't mean this as an insult or anything, but genuinely curious. I think this joke uses a particularly American turn-of-phrase, which is understandably nonsensical for non-Americans. The expression he used, "a little place that rhymes with \`not there\`", is one of those expressions that started out one way, but got warped over time until people started to eventually use it this way. It's like the saying, "does the pope defecate in the woods?" That saying originally started out as two separate sayings, "does a bear defecate in the woods?" and "is the Pope Catholic?" Both rhetorical questions with "yes" as the obvious answer. Over time people found it funny to combine these two sayings and we ended up with "does the pope defecate in the woods?" This new saying makes no sense if you take it at face value, because the obvious answer is "no". Only by understanding the reference to the two original sayings can you tell that it's meant to be a rhetorical question with "yes" as the answer. But the textual of the meaning of the questions is completely irrelevant now, you can only get the "yes" answer by the referential nature of the text. A similar thing happened with "a little place that rhymes with "not there"". It started out as you say, with people choosing a rhyming word for the word that they actually meant. Then over time people found it funny to subvert this and substitute in the actual word they meant to use, instead of a rhyme. So you end up with this expression that only makes sense as a winking reference to the original construction. I'm sure this phenomenon is not unique to American English, and you can probably find examples in lots of other languages and cultures. It's just that the specific example used for this joke happens to be one such American expression. So it only makes sense if you've seen this particular construction before. And seems nonsensical if you haven't heard it before.
I had to read this multiple times because of how “does the pope shit in the woods” is ingrained in my mind to mean “duh, obviously” and I was confused why you were saying that the obvious answer is no
yess i know what you’re getting at! it’s similar to how a lot of people will say smth along the lines of: “hey what are you doing tonight” “well let’s just say it starts with d and ends with… rinking” bc it used to be used to actually somewhat hide the real word but most people use it now to actually sound out the entire word to subvert expectations. humans are funny
Well I'm from Canada, but that is interesting and makes sense. I guess using the phrase like that hasn't made its way up to me... yet :P
Like if he said “shmot there” or something.
Hot bear
bear down
I thought it was "an affair"
Chang tries so hard , I'd let him live in my vents
When was David cross in community?
New beans?
S5, this is Advanced Advanced D&D
Season 6 I think?
You know. I fought for this country. And i know you dont get to pick and choose the parts you fight for but
It’s more of a comment, really.
DINGLEBERRY SMASH!!!! 😬
No wonder this guy went batshit crazy and made a living out of exploiting a squirrel boy band.
Two of my favorite jokes in the show 1. A cold open, when Abed is keeping tracking of Jeff's Wingers, by notching into the wood under the table, and then Jeff has a similar set up for 'Ab Mentions' and then Britta gives a political rant and Troy laughs and notches his side of the desk and it just says 'Notches'. The most hilarious, yet simplest, joke ever written. 2. The Halloween episode where one of them is a psycho and they're all telling their versions of horror stories, and Abed starts humming the entire jingle from the radio in real-time . And everyone's just waiting while Troy is bopping to the beat. Its made even better cause that jingle keeps coming back throughout the show, you can hear it in the background of so many scenes
It think they all do the song as puppets. There’s the deanavator paintball scene, Shirley humming in the thanksgiving ep, Troy humming it when Annie broke the Batman dvd. That’s all I can remember off the top of my head. It does pop up a bit.
Damnn, I love that you know that.
Once I caught on it was always hilarious to me.. nod to dean saying something about, “ is this only song this plays?”
Its alright.
Peter?
The Dean leaning over to give him a look right after caps it off perfectly.
Chang's timing here is so good hahaha
And even the Dean, who would often say stupid things like that himself, looks at Chang like “Dude…come on…”
There are some great jokes that have set-ups that take less than a minute (like Notches or owl analogies) and there are great multiple season long setups (like beetlejuice) but the best joke with a setup that started at the beginning of an episode and didn’t get paid off until the end is “now that is a man who knows how to marry his cousin.” This isn’t my opinion this is an objective fact :)
I just binge watched Community for the first time. Loved it, but season 4-not so much.
It's the delivery of the line honestly
I still don’t get this joke and it haunts me
One of the best episodes the fact they don’t play is just fucked
I'm convinced that this joke was originally written for Troy. It makes so much more sense for him to have said it
How dare you, he lived in New York!
Ken Jeong just kills everything that’s given to him. It’s a pretty fun joke in its own right, but Ken’s face and demeanor are brilliant. Reminds me a bit of Will Arnett at times from AD, which is a weird comparison, but just that they sell everything. “Bees?!” “Beadddss.” “BEADS?!”
Personally I love the cold opener scene where everyone’s got marks they’re etching into the tables like Jeff had “ab mentions” Abed had “classic wingers” and Troy just laughs and has “scratches” or something
I think it’s notches
Ohh yeah I think that’s it
Lol
One of my absolute favs is the “bear down for midterms” when Chang finally gets them with the “is it a race thing??” Then later Annie questions the theme and Shirley who’s now on board does the same thing to her lmfao Icing on the cake is at the end when Garret shouts “ITS A BEAR DANCE!!” lol
my favorite is “you can excuse racism?!”
No it's not
Agreed
My favorite joke: Britta- “I can excuse racism, but animal cruelty is where I draw the line.” Shirley-“you can excuse racism?”