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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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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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Chang living in the air vents with a monkey is very much a cartoon kinda premise. Interesting how the gimmicky episodes (paintball, stop motion), while annoying, work better than they do in regular shows, since this is basically a live-action cartoon.
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Both here and in The Hangover he’s created a very interesting stock character: the personification of a system’s insanity. He’s the truest slave of the community college or Vegas crime world etc.
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