Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television
- Episode aired Jun 2, 2015
- TV-Y
- 27m
As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven.As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven.As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAnnie and Jeff both criticize Marvel comics films, an inside joke at the expense of Joe Russo and Anthony Russo who worked on Community prior to directing films for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Brother: [gag commercial for the Community board game] Sorry dad, guess I win!
Father: You stupid child. Nobody's winning anything. Don't you see? This means we don't exist. We're not created by God.
[drops the tiny script replica]
Father: We're created by a joke. We were never born, and we will never actually live.
[family in stunned silence]
Commercial Announcer: [rapid-fire disclaimer] Dice not included, some assembly required. Lines between perception, desire, and reality may become blurred, redundant, or interchangeable. Characters may hook up with no regard for your emotional investment. Some episodes to conceptual to be funny. Some too funny to be immersive, and some so immersive they still aren't funny. Consistency between seasons may vary. Viewers may be measured by a secretive obsolete system based on selected participants keeping hand-written journals of what they watched. Show may be canceled and moved to the Internet where it turns out 10s of millions were watching the whole time - may not matter. Fake commercial may end with disclaimer gag which may descend into vain Chuck Lorre-esque rant by narcissistic creator. Creator may be unstable. Therapist may have told creator this is not how you make yourself a good person. Life may pass by while we mistreat those close to us. Those close to us may be those watching. Those people may want to know I love them, but I may be incapable of saying it. Contains pieces the size child's esophagus.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Episodes of Community (2015)
- SoundtracksGreendale is Where I Belong
Performed by Ludwig Göransson
It will make me hate the world and the show then. It will make question the quality of anything else I dare watch.
Nonetheless, I start again, and I enjoy, and I get sad, and I smile, and I return to the immensely disappointing existence of real world.
However, in terms of art, or TV, whatever you call it, this show does not disappoint me, ever.
I find myself lucky to have watched it while it was airing in 2009-2015. I think I discovered it in 2011 during its second season. I felt the same things back then, as well.
When all the sitcoms on US TV are considered, this show is, I think, is one of the best, if not the best one yet. Definitely along with "That '70s Show" and "Two Guys and a Girl and a Pizza Place".
During the pandemic, I watched the darkest timeline podcast and their table read, which was hilarious. They mentioned the possibility of the movie.
Six seasons and a movie... still waiting...