I can not believe this show airs on national television.
I liked this episode - I liked it more than last week, in part because I didn't have the nostalgia for GI Joe - but it's so committed to being so completely weird and kind of exclusive. The whole Abed plot of there being no story, and then totally committing to actually really not having a lot of plot for a big chunk of this story was amazing in it's simple existence. If you like this brand of comedy, which I do, it's fun, but anyone else who happened on this must've been offput. They're getting away with it and may yet get away with it for another season, how is this possible.
That meta randomness was juxtaposed with the rest of the episode all hoary old sitcom tropes for maximum weirdness. The place they all love is going away if they don't raise enough money!* Two on and off lovers decide to get married!** A new (historical) character all of the people is suddenly introduced and everyone pretends like he's existed all along and just hasn't been mentioned until now! Two characters suddenly discover they're related - oh, no, false alarm on that one. Maybe there's some buried treasure Brady Bunch episode I'm forgetting that should be included in here, or maybe Abed suggesting Buried Treasure is part of the super meta part. I dunno!
Community vaulted from one storytelling extreme all the way to the other, with some entertainingly wacky dancing and word defining in the middle. They're going out, this season or forever, very weird but it always stuns me how weird they can go.
* - trading the Clay Aiken appearance for Jared the Subway Guy ** - until they obviously don't next week
Darabont = King novel has proven to be money so far. I'm interested in seeing what Darabont can do with a King story that's more straight-forward horror than the straight-forward Shawshawk or the only somewhat magical Green Mile.
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