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[LostSon88]

Seeing Abed normal...was weird.

Pretty nice episode though.

 

[Master Chief]

Were the monologues at the opening and closing a movie reference?

My Dinner with Andre. lol it made Jeff's breakthrough so much funnier coz I knew Abed was still just being Abed, and here's Jeff pouring out his soult:

I can't think of a show that has been this consistently good, and they actually had the balls to reference something most people wouldn't get!:heart:

 

[Maximus One]

If Im the person that watches Cougar Town how can I be in Cougar Town? And the more I thought about it the less any of it makes any sense at all and I just wanna turn and run but its too late because the directors yelling action. Hahahhahaha that **** kills me!

 

[Lencho01]

It was impressive how he was able to make Abed seem so different, then make the subtle switch to regular Abed. He fools you into thinking the character's actually changed.

That's why I got freaked out by it. He really made me think Abed became normal.

 

[tek]

enjoyed the episode, but just could not buy Jeff's breakthrough or being real. I was waiting for him to double play Abed.

 

[Maximus One]

I think Abed is probably one of the only characters Jeff can't double play. Im trying to think of a time when Jeff may have manipulated Abed or anything and the closest thing I can come to is the chicken finger ep but it has been a while since Ive rewatched any eps from season 1. After about 13 times each they got a bit repetitive

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

From now on, wine is forever known as no-no juice.

 

[John Locke]

I think Abed is probably one of the only characters Jeff can't double play. Im trying to think of a time when Jeff may have manipulated Abed or anything and the closest thing I can come to is the chicken finger ep but it has been a while since Ive rewatched any eps from season 1. After about 13 times each they got a bit repetitive

Everyone execpt Troy has manipulated Abed but it has always gone wrong. Jeff manipulated him with the chicken fingers but Abed took over control. Britta, Annie, and Shirley manipulated Abed into becoming ***** terminator but then Abed turned on them. Pierce used Abed to take control of the D&D games but Jeff and them won at the end.

 

[MadVillainy]

Such a good episode last night

 

[Prison Mike]

no-no juice!

 

[DarkSovereignty]

this show is just such sheer brilliance...it's just fantastic.

 

[Shifty]

March 25, 2011 02:44 PM PDT
Cougar Town Boss Flattered Not Offended By Community Tribute: 'No One's Taking Digs at Us'

Cougar Town fans will be happy to know that last night’s episode of Community — filled to the brim with shout-outs to the ABC laughfest — did not go unnoticed by the Cul-de-sac Crew. In fact, C-Town exec producer Bill Lawrence hints to TVLine that a friendly retaliatory strike is less a question of if than when.

TVLINE | You were obviously aware of what Community had in store for Cougar Town prior to last night’s episode, but was that the first you’d seen of it?
It was the first time I saw it. Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan are executive producers over on Community now and they helped me run Scrubs for years. So, when they were doing the episode, Neil actually took a picture of the [script] page and sent it to us on his phone — partly to challenge us to reciprocate!

TVLINE | How fun! So, what did you think of it?
It was really cool. I like the show anyway and watched it before they made Abed like Cougar Town, so I’m not late to the show. I think it’s funny and it’s in my wheelhouse. I’m a movie nerd and we used to do movie spoofs on Scrubs all the time. Plus, I saw the My Dinner With Andre aspect of it right away. The sweater was a big giveaway.

TVLINE | There are fans out there who are still insisting that Community was making fun of Cougar Town — care to clear the air?
I just turned on my computer and it’s still exploding with Community talk. Yeah, no one‘s taking digs at Cougar Town. There is no way they would do that stuff without talking to us, and we wouldn’t do it without talking to them. And by the way, Jeff is allowed to make fun of the show’s name. I make fun of the name. It’s a horrible name. And the fact that Abed, a pop culture nerd, thinks it’s a good show is incredibly flattering. On our show, the pop culture nerd is Dan Byrd’s Travis. We got delayed on our hiatus, but we already slipped a Community mention in when he made his girlfriend watch the Season 1 DVD on their first date.

TVLINE | How did this whole mutual admiration society get started.
I talk to Neil all the time and I like [Community creator] Dan [Harmon], so we were all talking back and forth about how both shows have their own mountains to climb. Community is this geek-cool, street cred, funny show with a tough time slot. And Cougar Town, well, we screwed ourselves with a crappy title. Anyway, we were just fantasizing about gags and I pitched one idea that Dan hated. I said we should do the exact same “C” story in both shows. We would do it with Travis and Laurie and they do it with Troy and Abed and we’d see if anyone notices. It eventually just evolved into a mutual respect thing.

TVLINE | It’s pretty unprecedented to do this much cross-network promotion, but it is clearly resonating with fans of both shows.
The cooler story here for me, besides the fact that we all like each other’s shows, is that in the modern landscape of TV, with your network hopefully airing a commercial for you here or there, it’s a cool way to promote your show. On some level, this could be a cool thing — if you can find a show with a similar sensibility that’s not on your network, and somehow find a way to feed your audience to them and vice versa, it might be a new angle to help shows survive. It’s really interesting if writers can help cross-promote each other’s shows. It’s genuine from our side that we actually dig their show, and I assume it’s genuine from their side, too. [Laughs]

TVLINE | And now, the big question: Any chance we’ll see more Community love on Cougar Town?
Production on the show is already done for the season, but I feel like if people pay close attention, they’ll see that we do reciprocate. That would be my hint.

 

[obin_gam]

crap episode. not at all what I expected.

 

[LostSon88]

I take it you expected a full on spoof of Pulp Fiction?

 

[obin_gam]

basically... they advertised it like that so I dont know how else one would think it was gonna be.

 

[Maximus One]

If it had been a full on spoof of Pulp Fiction it woulda been contrived as hell. They've done the themed episodes, almost to the point that it seems that they sit and think "Well guys, what movie do we do next?" Almost, but this past weeks episode was just brilliant, because we thought we were getting this big PF episode but they didn't recreate one single scene from it. Instead we got My Dinner With Andre, it's called misdirection. One of the most important comedic techniques and they pulled it off brilliantly

 

[HighFivingMF]

they didn't recreate one single scene from it.

I haven't watched the movie in like a month but I'm almost positive that one of the subplots is the Gimp's balls touching a zipper!

 

[Prison Mike]

It's a good thing they didn't do a full on spoof of Pulp Fiction because I would have been lost as I haven't seen it yet.

 

[Pink Ranger]

We were meant to think it was a spoof of Pulp Fiction, but instead they pulled a 180 on us and did a whole other movie most of their target audience hasn't seen. Bravo, well played sir.

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

I liked the episode, but its also increased my dislike for how Abed is written. Not necessarily his character, but almost everything he did in the entire episode was one big d*ck move to Jeff, and then rather than portrayed as in the wrong, or needing to apologise the episode points him out as fairly justified.

 

[ChickenScratch]

It's a good thing they didn't do a full on spoof of Pulp Fiction because I would have been lost as I haven't seen it yet.

No big deal man. I've seen it once when it just came out. never felt the need to go back, Tarantino just does not do it for me at all.

 

[Pink Ranger]

OMG. Just when I felt this show has nowhere left to go, they go somewhere else:

Spoiler

A comedic plotline about faking childhood sexual assault to get a girl. That's so wrong, wrong, wrong, and funny.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Oh Chang!!!!!!

 

[Pink Ranger]

Oh Chang!!!!!!

I can confirm that all Chinese people carry their owns apps around for emergencies. I have some warm mini-quiches in my pants at this very moment.

 

[ChickenScratch]

My emotions, my emotions!