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This show is UNSTOPPABLE, folks!

Is that song from anything, folks? I don't recognize it, but if it's from anything else it will always be the rat song to me now.
 
KingDirk said:
This show is UNSTOPPABLE, folks!

Is that song from anything, folks? I don't recognize it, but if it's from anything else it will always be the rat song to me now.
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An American Tail.

Fievel was also the name of the mouse there!
 
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I think I chopped too many frames off by accident. Will fix during the next Office commercial break

For now...

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??? Thats all there is. It cuts to Jeff immediately after that frame.

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Guzim said:
Due to this thread, whenever Annie does anything in general I think "That's going to be a gif."
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Haha same here but I love it. Costanza is the Community gif master.

The end song was brilliant. Show is really on a roll.
 
Watching the episode, I was thinking "this is good, but I'm feeling that each story is a little cheesy..that song is so familiar though..." and then in the end duet I was like "OH SHIT ITS AMERICAN TAIL" and the nostalgia wave redeemed the episode and kept it at the high level of quality that community hasn't yet left.

Good gifs tonight.
 
Tamanon said:
I love how no matter what happens, Abed is never shocked, he always acts like he's watching it on TV instead of in real life.:lol
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It's like, in a weird way, Abed is playing the straight man more than any other character, despite being arguably the most eccentric.
 
I thought this was the weakest episode of the season, but still damn funny.

"I hope this doesn't awaken anything in me" :lol
 
This was probably my least favorite episode so far. Especially disappointing given the brilliance of last week's episode, and that of P&R and Sunny tonight.
 
I have a bunch of episodes recorded but haven't watched it yet. I'm really digging Parks & Rec and Modern Family, just for some background. Is Community "Office to Arrested Development" level awesome or just a good comedy? Just wondering.
 
jonnybryce said:
I have a bunch of episodes recorded but haven't watched it yet. I'm really digging Parks & Rec and Modern Family, just for some background. Is Community "Office to Arrested Development" level awesome or just a good comedy? Just wondering.
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The latter, unless you're talking about later-season Office.
 
Nose Master said:
While watching this, my roommate and I both called the train gif right as it happened :lol
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It was way too forced. Just had to get in a goofy Annie moment.

Anyways, totally the weakest episode thus far. Oh well. At least I was prepared. Last week's Sunny taught me that you can't be awesome all the time.
 
Has anyone else noticed that when anyone besides Jeff has to give a speech, their first move is a Heil Hitler? Annie did it last week, and Shirley did it this week.

EDIT: ALSO, I just noticed that when Señor Chang and Jeff are walking out of class, they're laughing, saying, "Cherry Daiquiri," which was Gillian Jacobs' character's name in Choke.

TRIVIA.
 
This is from the ew.com 'Community' recap:

Up, down, up, down, as the quality of Community spins round and round. Off of last week’s celestial episode, this week’s show was a return to Earth — with one very significant asterisk. I was ready to score the episode as mediocre, a “C+” if you will, and then out of nowhere came a three-minute sequence that pretty much redeemed everything before it. You know the one. It involved a rendition of the Oscar-nominated “Somewhere Out There” from the 1986 toon An American Tail — a song that had been secretly tucked away in my childhood subconscious, just waiting to be summoned. There was something touching about how sweetly Abed and Troy sang the duet to their escaped lab rat, Fievel (another American Tail reference), and how the show used that musical cue to tie together both Shirley’s triumph in her marketing class (via the assistance of Pierce) and Señor Chang’s reunion with his estranged wife (via the assistance of Jeff). Sure, it was all kinds of artificial cheese, but the climax worked because we somehow cared for this zany group of multicultural and multigenerational misfits. Now, which Community writer was 8 years old in 1986?

Five best non-American Tail moments after the jump:

1. Dean Pelton (the underrated Jim Rash) had thousands of posters made announcing the school’s “Green Week” name change to Envirodale Community College. When Starburns points out that the college was already called Greendale, Pelton turns to his assistant…

Dean Pelton: We need to redo these.

Assistant: We printed 5,000.

Dean Pelton: Well, print 5,000 more. I’m trying to save the planet here!

2. Annie wants Jeff to convince Señor Chang to cancel their 20-page punishment assignment. “You have to get Cheng to call off some of this homework — you’re the one with the silver tongue,” Annie says to Jeff. Pierce, in agreement, adds: “Yeah, go tongue Cheng!” Something tells me Cheng wouldn’t entirely mind.

3. Annie: “Guess what, handsome hobo, your gravy train’s leaving the station. Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, woo, woo!” Make note, that was 10 chuggas and two woos. I look forward to seeing the animated GIF.

4. In what may be Community’s strangest moment so far, Dean Pelton is watching this creepy Dalmatian-Man video and says, “This better not awaken anything in me.”

5. Pierce: “You know what happens when you lock your knees? You die.”

So, with the “Somewhere Out There” number thrown in, last night’s episode gets bumped up to a “B”. PopWatchers, grab your grading pens and tell us what you thought.
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The bold piece made me think of the gaf!!
 
EW recap said:
3. Annie: “Guess what, handsome hobo, your gravy train’s leaving the station. Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, woo, woo!” Make note, that was 10 chuggas and two woos. I look forward to seeing the animated GIF.
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Wow. He couldn't possibly be a GAF reader, right? I'd be curious to know if anyone knows of any other gif crazy Community threads from other boards.
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4. In what may be Community’s strangest moment so far, Dean Pelton is watching this creepy Dalmatian-Man video and says, “This better not awaken anything in me.”
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:lol

This went by a little to fast when I was watching last night. I now regret searching for "Dalmatian-Man" on youtube. :lol
 
Unfortunately another slight decline this week. Most shows dropped this week though, so Community actually beat the ratings trend.

09/17: 7.7 million, 3.7 18-49 rating (series premiere)
09/24: 5.4 million, 2.8 18-49 rating
10/01: 5.8 million, 2.9 18-49 rating
10/08: 5.1 million, 2.0 18-49 rating (move to 8pm)
10/15: 5.1 million, 2.0 18-49 rating
10/22: 5.2 million, 1.9 18-49 rating
10/29: 5.5 million, 2.1 18-49 rating
11/05: 5.6 million, 2.3 18-49 rating
11/12: 5.1 million, 2.1 18-49 rating
11/19: 5.1 million, 2.0 18-49 rating

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/11/thursday-shows-slump-as-tv-usage-declines.html#more
 
People, you don't need to ask for Annie gifs. Anything she does on camera will be in this thread.

God can only hope she never lays eyes on this monstrosity...
 
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