I know more gossip about that show than ones I actually watch. I know what time it's on, I know all the characters, I know all the in-jokes. I watched it once; I found the guy from the Soup annoying, and the other characters completely unlikable.
Show gets a 1.3 for a reason. No one likes it. This isn't Arrested Development. The internet was too small then to honk their horns to whoever would listen. It's just a sitcom that doesn't understand how sitcoms work, and no one except you small majority on the internet will care when it's canceled. I don't like Two Broke Girls, either. But that show gets 20 million viewers, and its fans leave me alone. A rich man doesn't need to tell people he's rich.
I've been holding that in for a long time. I feel better now.
CycloRaptor posted... yeah nobody used the internet back in 2003 it was only available to the super rich who were free from the sitcom complaints of the plebeians
yeah most of that growth is not from the upper middle class young americans that make up the vast majority of the audience of arrested development and community
and literally none of your complaints (blogs, forums) are youtube related so idk what that has to do with anything.
IRL all of my close friends watch and love community. they are all also people who had internet access in 2003. circumstantial evidence is useless.
i tried typing up a serious response to this topic but there's no point, really - this topic is inherently flawed. you watched the show once and didn't care for it; that's fine. no one is forcing you to like the show. but that 20 minutes of experience with the show doesn't mean you can make grandiose statements like "[Dan Harmon] doesn't understand how sitcoms work" or make anecdotal statements about how no one you know talks about Community so 'shut up, internet' and have those statements actually mean anything.
this is the internet. you choose what you're exposed to. if you're tired of hearing about community, there are steps you can take to avoid it. making a topic about community on a message board that enjoys community is not one of those steps.
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But it's a terrible sitcom. Sitcoms get views because they're something uplifting to watch at the end of a long hard day. Something easy and relaxing that just gets you to laugh. It's why they're good and why they're well-received. Community is funny, but it's also very story-driven, meta, niche, and can be quite dark. It's definitely not for everyone, but those who get into it really get into it. It's not joke and a laughtrack. And I'm not bashing the sitcom format for doing that. Cheers, Cosby Show, M*A*S*H, and Seinfeld are all top-tier shows that do the same. It works.
I'm just happy Community still even has a place on anyone's schedule.
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Please, mana. It fits every definition of what a sitcom is. It absolutely is a sitcom. It may not be what the masses want out of their sitcoms, but that doesn't make it bad at being a sitcom.