Also tells me I’m shallow. I like the science fiction setting better though it’s now clear most plot premises would probably work in either show. It’s obviously the same storyteller. Apparently the private toilet R&M episode was originally conceived for Community.
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Something about this is fun but also sad. Transpositions. Matt Groening also has a bit of narrative resonance between Simpsons and Futurama but not as much.
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It’s really fun watching Community having watched Rick and Morty first. The quiet little subversions are much easier to spot. One of the most effectively done is how they managed to take Brita from stereotypical blonde lead to genuinely annoying and least likeable character.
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She’s sort of the Jerry of the the ensemble.
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Chang is an odd character. In the context of characters he’s played since, it’s really Ken Jeong’s stock character. It either fits or doesn’t. Has he ever played anything else? This is the same character as the Hangover movies.
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Abed reminds me of Bird Person.
Jeff, Troy, Annie are more standard sitcom characters afaict. Not developed subversively.
Shirley would be awkward today. Cuts a bit close to the emerging black+antisemite thing.
Pierce seems written for Chevy Chase to be himself.
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The pre-Weirding vibe is very disturbing though. It’s like we know, but the show doesn’t, that there’s a nuclear bomb under the set and everything they do either accelerates or slows the countdown.
This is a good test for any show from 2000-15.
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