Go Jobra!

I just caught this weeks episode of Community, and I have to say that I haven't laughed that hard in ages!  Dan Harmon really has created something special with this little gem of a show, and his return to the series, after it's ho-hum 4th season, has been really refreshing.

I love that Community has found it's niche as that quirky show that tackles a totally different genre with each and every episode, and as a male child of the 80's I couldn't have been happier to see the choice for this week's episode: GI Joe/ animation.  Titled GI Jeff, the episode was a hilarious blend of a combination of 80's style animation, 80's action figure commercials, and live action. 

The plot for the episode was darkly funny, which is typical Community: Depressed about his advancing years on his 40th Birthday, Jeff Winger drinks a 5th of scotch, downs a handful of Asian "happy magic youth" pills hoping to reclaim his lost youth, and winds up in a coma, suffering a minor psychotic break, where he and the rest of the cast are trapped in an eternal GI Joe Cartoon, separated from actual reality by a subconscious layer of 1980's GI Joe commercials, which are partially drawn from the stock footage that I remember from my youth.

In his fantasy world Jeff becomes Wingman, a Joe with a jetpack, who doesn't play by the rules.  The other community cast also make appearances as part of Jeff's team: Shirley becomes Three Kids, Annie becomes Tight Ship, Britta becomes Buzz Kill, and Ahbed becomes 4th Wall, Each with a hilarious costume and spin on their community personas. 

I was hooked right from the opening credits where an animated Community cast fights alongside the traditional Joe's to fend of a Cobra attack lead by Destro.  Wingman actually kills Destro in the final moments of the opening sequence, which gets him and the team thrown in the brig for breaking the GI Joe code of conduct.  The rest of the episode is spent, trying to escape, and return to reality.  Hilarity ensues.

Now I can also appreciate that not everyone would enjoy this particular episode as much as I did, for example, all of the young women I have discussed this episode with, just didn't get it.  GI Joe just wasn't a significant part of their upbringing, which I can certainly understand.

But, that aside, this was 22 minutes of fantastic television.

The Walking Dead Mid Season Finale - In Atlanta! FAIL!

So life on the road is all swell and good, because this has been an easy week and since we left Austin, all I have been looking forward to is the Mid Season finale of The Walking Dead.  Icing on the cake, we are actually spending Sunday night in Atlanta, where they do a lot of the filming.  Awesome, right?  Wrong.  Our hotel has no AMC, and I can't get a decent internet connection to download the episode.

Total fail.

So now I have to avoid Facebook and Twitter until I can find out what happened...

First World Problems...I know.

This doesn't count as a blog post...just a rant.

I'll check back in once I finally get my hands on the episode.

NBC renews Community for a 5th Season

Lets be very clear. We were all told right from the beginning that Season 4 of Community was going to be it. After Season 3 aired, the show went on an extended hiatus and underwent a pretty major shake up of its creative team. Series Creator Dan Harmon was given the ol' heave ho! But we did eventually get a 4th season, and now, less than 24 hours after the final episode of Season 4 aired last night, NBC has announced that they have renewed quirky cult hit for a surprise 5th season. Cool, Cool, Cool. Sadly Chevy Chase will likely no longer be involved with the project, since they treated him like a little bitch throughout season 4...however, rumours abound that he was a little bitch throughout the process...so I guess that is just old fashioned Karma doing its job. Other things to look forward to in season 5? At least 13 more episodes tag lines of "Troy and Ahbed in the Morning." More Paintball. More exploration of the darkest timeline. More run ins with the Dean of City College, since that was never actually resolved. More Changnesia?!? POP! POP!