I Need Help Reacting to Something #sixseasonsandamovie

I assume that you're reading this because you love Community, unless you're my Aunt or my friend Kate, who'll read this because they love me. If you are a fan and you have a twitter account, the delay of season 4 must be old news by now. If you haven't heard, here's Entertainment Weekly’s article on the matter. This depressing news has inspired me to express how much I love this show in the best way possible, a list of favorites with clips and polls. Before we begin the interactive portion of this post I’d like to give a brief rundown of how I came to love Community and why.

My friend told me I should start watching the show but, ultimately it took a tweet from Karen Gillan (Amy Pond - Doctor Who) to make me stop what I was doing and start watching immediately. I should have listened to my friend straight away and it was on my to do list but it wasn't a priority until I read that tweet from Amy Pond herself referencing the show and more specifically, Inspector Spacetime. I’m glad she did because Community is amazing. It is smart, funny and inventive and it is really hard to swallow the fact that this show is in jeopardy while Two and a Half Men is still on the air (I’m sorry if you like it, I am just not a fan).Without further ado, let’s delve into what makes Community great.

There are so many things to love about Community so I had to narrow this down. There are five categories and I've chosen five favorites for each category. I told you in my 90's post, picking favorites gives me agita. Narrowing each category down to five options was very hard and picking one from each was even harder so, in the case of a tie, I used random.org to pick the winner for me. If there is anything I didn't list, please leave a comment because I love talking about this show.

Favorite Parody

Basic Lupine Urology

The explanation is not the issue!

The art of the parody is where Community really shines and they are all great so I had to go to random.org here. This episode was a perfect parody of Law & Order. Every element was there, from the blue collar workers finding the “victim” to that unmistakable Dung! Dung! Troy and Abed as the detectives were so good and they just played it so straight while wearing an Inspector Spacetime badge and a Spiderman tie. Britta’s role may have been small but, it fit her character well. Annie may be majoring in health care administration but, she made a pretty good lawyer. I especially enjoyed the outlandish portion of her cross examination. “Is that why you hit your wife? Withdrawn. Is that why you dink and pop pills? Withdrawn.” Also Starburns’, death was a surprise and I didn’t think it was the last of him. I was happy to be proven right at the end of the season.

Please vote for your favorite parody episode.

Doctor Who The Angels Take Manhattan S7E5 ::Spoilers::

After my mad dash to review every episode of series 7 in 6 hours last week I needed a bit of downtime. Looking back it was unnecessary because the theory and reason for the rush hasn't been proven, yet if it will at all. See my Pond Life review for why I felt the need to get the reviews out before The Angels Take Manhattan. It was a terrible idea as my writing just got consistently worse in each review. By the time I got to A Town Called Mercy it was clear I was burnt out. I will not be doing that again. But, enough about my lackluster writing, onto The Angels Take Manhattan.

The Bad

I will start with what I view as the only serious negative aspect of this episode, which wasn't really part of the episode itself and that is, of course, the telegraphing of the good-bye. I understand that it would have been hard to keep the fact that the Ponds were leaving under wraps but, I wish they hadn't over-advertised it like they did. They kept telling us they were leaving, not just on the internet where you had to be on the look out for it, it was in the trailers and they kept hyping the heartbreak. Before/during the episode on BBC America, we had Matt Smith telling us that if we didn't have a lump in our throats by the end, we might be aliens.

In the grand scheme of things I sobbed but, knowing the outcome dramatically reduced the butterflies in the tummy effect of the emotional roller coaster the episode seemed to want us to ride. You know, "phew! They made it. ::ten seconds later:: Oh no! Rory!!!" If we didn't know or if it had just been a rumor on the internet rather than the focal point of all official promotions for the season, the impact would have been far greater.