• Minor correction:  2 Broke Girls is on CBS, not NBC.  Unfortunately for NBC, 2 Broke Girls is the show performing best in the ratings with an average viewership of 11 million.

• Yeah, why can't they associate it with the dad from Venture Bros?

• The same old sitcom tv stuff? I think you haven't seen a sitcom in quite a while and are overestimating them. Try watch something like 2 Broke Girls or Big Bang Theory. These are typical sitcoms. They are FUCKING AWFUL. Nothing funny whatsoever. Community wasn't on the other night so I watched BBT theory for comparison. The average joke was on par with a nerdy girl asking another girl about the size of her areolas. That's the quality of humor on "the same old sitcom stuff." Community is sooo much better that it's shameful. It's actually funny! I laugh when I watch it! A comedy should inspire laughter, not a laugh track. FYI, the show has next to nothing about 'nerd culture'. Which tells me that you went into the show with some preconceived notions about what the show was about.

• Noooo, no more Annie's Boobs.  I mean the monkey not you know ....  I hate TV, now.  Probably, too many people are associating Community with the extremely horrible "Allen Gregory" since the dad on that show looks, talks, and acts exactly like Dean Pelton.  That can't help.

• Dude, BATMAN _IS_ BEETLEJUICE. Michael Keaton PLAYS THEM BOTH.

• Love it or hate it, that was a kickass easter egg.

• We're just demographics to them. A sector that can be milked when they think we are enough to guarantee a revenue. I just hope Community don'e get the axe. It's my favorite sitcom in a long time and it's incredibly well written and genre savvy.

• All I know is that, according to Twitter, Edgar Wright and Nathan Fillion loves this show.

• I agree that there are good things about geek culture becoming mainstream, but only if it happens correctly.  More people being aware of Doctor Who is good, but more Hollywood execs being aware of Doctor Who might not be as good.

• I think part of the reason is that it was not marketed well.  I watched it only after a friend of mine harped on me long enough.  When I saw the previews for the show I figured it was pretty much a basic sitcom set at a community college.  I passed when it premiered.  I watched a few episodes and am now in love with it. 

• Is that really a bad thing? What makes us geeks?  (I never use the term nerd, it means someone with a dull personality, which we are not)  Are we about defining our group by our general interests or are we more interested in gratifying our on sense of superiority by seperating ourselves from the maintstream "herd"?  Many minority groups and movements seem to do this and it irritates the Hell out of me.  First we rant and rave how we are marginalized as wierd and misunderstood by the majority.  Then, when the majority acknowledges some elements of our subculture by assimilating them into the mainstream, we condem and belittle the majority for what it has done to our culture.  Seems a bit childish to me, the objective in this case seems to be constructing meaning and value from being "outside" the mainstream and not really focusing on the subject of interest. I for one think if you value something, you find joy in sharing it with others and seeing others enjoy it as well, not feeling smug in the fact that you enjoy something others do not.  I love that SDCC is drawing more and more maintstream and entertainment media coverage each year.  More interest means more bodies which means more money which means more opportunties! I for one wish geek culture became the mainstream, entirely.  I wish malls were filled with shops dedicated to fandoms as opposed to clothing and apparel, I would love to see video games given the same respect and due that the Academy Awards recieves.   Oh, and if geek culture was fully maintstream, Firefly would still be on TV and Community would not be walking up the steps towards the guillotine.  I think Community is one of the most geek friendly shows on network television and I am sad to see what has transpired. I am not looking for validation from the mainstream, I am not insecure.  But I enjoy seeing my interests reflected anywhere and everywhere in a casual, everyday way.

• Well... Arrested Development does plenty of them. And we know how THAT ended.

• In my opinion, it's not that there's no nerd culture, it's just that we've come to an age where major parts of "nerd culture" has become mainstream. However, like any other culture, there are different levels in "nerd culture", just like how there are sports references that anyone can get and sports references that only sport fans can get; there's a difference between referencing Green Lantern and referencing Dungeons and Dragons. Not to mention that just because something is mainstream, doesn't mean it's not "nerd culture". If it was, then The Dark Knight is as nerdy a movie as Marley and Me. Besides, despite all the DnDs, zombies and parallel universes, Community was never actually marketed as a "nerd sitcom". It's not trying to be nerdy, it just happens to be nerdy, but it has always been more about "pop culture". I mean, it does other, non-nerdy stuff as well, such as a My Dinner With Andre episode and a Documentary episode. Therefore, It shouldn't really matter whether nerd culture exists or not, the show is still funny and inventive.

• Watched it. Didn't like it. Just the same old sitcom TV stuff, packaged in a hip "geek chic" way. The problem is that nerdy, as defined here and most other places these days, doesn't actually exist. What you call "nerd culture" is actually pretty mainstream. Superheroes. Movie references. Comic books. Video games. Animated movies. ALL are mainstream, common things now.  Face it: There is no "nerd culture" -- There's just pop culture. 

• Iv been meaning to watch it.. Its Derrick comedy, in film form. I was sold from just that, but the Encyclopedia Brown theme just puts it over the top

• Its pretty awesome, honestly. I grew up with the muppets, and while i did see some of the movie through nostalgia-glasses, it really does hold up. The song "Pictures in my Head" was as touching and earnest as Kermit gets.

• *Jaw hits floor* Oh dear god how did I not see that! This show is beyond awesome. That is an amazing joke. Wow.. Seriously this show knows how to keep a gag going.

• Jane, you ignorant slut.

• There should be more people talking about. And more. And more. As long as it increases chances of being renewed. I'd rather have the hype now and get renewed than go the Firefly route of cancellation then hype.

• Actually, from what I've read they do.

• YES

• Watching that episode felt like I was watching a great Twilight Zone ep. I can definitely say that Chuck Lorre's shows don't put anywhere near the thought Dan Harmon puts in his. Community is "streets ahead."

• I heard it had something to do with NBC ordering full seasons of that Whitney woman's namesake show and the one she produces (2 Broke Girls), sight unseen, and now struggling with terrible response.

• "Remedial Chaos Theory" is about as close to a perfect 25 minutes of scripting, acting, and editing that the television medium has ever produced.  Seriously.  

• I think that's the apex of the situation right there; Community IS too good for this world.

• I love this show, so do all my friends. The first season starts off a bit slow, however once your hooked you're hooked. In saying that though, I'll be happy with 4 seasons (please,please please get to finish the 4 seasons). Jeff even says at the beginning he only has to go for 4 years? So they obviously have a plan. Don't try and stretch out extra seasons that could ultimately ruin it.

• ie: Masterpiece. You can say it. In the realm of situation comedy, "Community" is a fucking masterpiece.

• Community recently became my new favorite show (to replace House, since it's in its last season). When I heard about the schedule shift, I think I lost all faith in humanity. Now I'm a bitter shell of a person.

• Perhaps if I say "Allison Brie" three times in the mirror she will appear!

• A better question is why would YOU set the DVR to record X-Factor at all?

• Should we start an annoying campaign to save it? I suggest sending little wadded up paper balls (if you're a fan, you know why) with "WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?!" written on them to NBC.

• Ha. You said Duty.

• It's worth pointing out that while I think Community is better, How I Met Your Mother has also had several multi-season running jokes.  The goat at the birthday party, the slap bet.  This is totally awesome, rad, and unexpected, but I just thought it was worth noting.

• Why is that?  It seems like this is a scenario similar to political polling, where most polls only call people with land lines, who tend to be older and more conservative.  A show like Community seems targeted pretty squarely at the people most likely to watch at any time other than when it airs, so traditional ratings might be under reporting its viewership.

• Well, if you want to get really technical: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons is probably the best thing to have been put on TV. And the Halloween Episode (any of them) And the Paintball episodes And Documentary Filmmaking: Redux... OK, so the show achieves near-perfection pretty often.

• I hat honestly never heard of Whitney until I heard that they were keeping it instead of Community ...

• The episode "Advanced Gay" is very close to perfect.

• First of all Terminal83, whose mind I won't change, I respect your choice to be a condescending douche ("cute joke", really?), but do you really think it wise to stoke the ire of community fans on their own thread? As for the show not being a masterpiece, what show is? Out of all the comedies currently airing Community is trying something new every night. I agree that it's not perfect (only Parks and Rec comes close, imo), but if people stop talking about it then it will go away and it won't get a chance to be perfect; that would be tragic. tl;dr: eat a bag of dicks.

• Grimm, and shows of its ilk, which require no thought whatsoever, just warmed-over, predictable characters and scenarios. It's like people are cats and these terrible shows are laser pointers.

• Maybe that <i>was</i> Michael Keaton. And <i>that</i> would be the ultimate cameo...

• I've been meaning to watch that one but I always forget about it.

• she's adorable!! jeff: don't use those doe eyes!  makes me feel like i'm strangling the little mermaid with a bike chain!

• yeah, BBT sucks.  it's made by non-nerds looking in from the outside.  what we're seeing is a fratboys conceptualization of nerddom.  community is clever, weird, and unpredictable...if it ever want to reach a large audience it will have to become more like the abomination, two and a half men.  

• It is everyone's civic duty to watch Community. 

• fuck NBC in the ASS!!!!

• It has Chevy Chase, your argument is invalid.

• Track down Mystery Team. Encyclopedia Brown with adult humor. It's damned hilarious.

• Six seasons and a movie, six seasons and a movie, six seasons and a movie. 

• So *YOU'D* prefer if people would stop talking about a show that they love because *YOU* don't care for it?

• Man, I try to be respectful and not oogle and gush over women like they're meat in my internet comments. I try to keep a standard of respectability and civility. But damn, Alison Brie is SOOOOO HOT

• Troy: But what about the zombies? Jeff: Backburner, Troy!  This cat needs to be dealt with.

• In The UK maybe,but unless you're one of the Nielsen families in the U.S. You can have a thousand people sit down and watch every second of every episode and it won't amount to JACK Q. SQUAT! I LIVE ON A STEADY DIET OF GOVERNMENT CHEESE,AND I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

• I'm surprised that you've never mentioned Inspector Spacetime on here before. That was such a fantastic parody of not only the show Doctor Who but a parody of the fans of Doctor Who.

• Big Bang Theory is a nerdy show like Family Matters was a nerdy show

• If only Batman could team up with Bjo Trimble.

• Grimm? Or the overwhelming love? If its grimm, i knew it. Fucking fairytale shows. :P

• What other show would even attempt a joke like this?

• Wait, was there an episode of Community last night??  Stupid DVR!  Why would you record The X-Factor and not Community??

• Cute joke. I'd give anything if people would stop mentioning Community for a while. The show is okay, but it's no masterpiece.

• sounds more like a job for beetlejuice amirite? High five

• I don't even like the show and I am awestruck by the combination of simplicity and patience this joke required.

• Removed! Missed Bricken's comment.

• I haven't seen The Muppets yet. I'm plannin' on it though.

• Agreed. I was skeptical, but the new album he just put out (along with his huge back catalog) blew my mind. He's really, really good at almost everything he tries. His cameo in The Muppets was completely out of the blue and weirdly funny for the three lines he actually gets to say.  He really needs to be huge, ASAP

• Wow, I don't know how I missed this. Thanks for pointing it out and thanks for supporting the show. It's probably my favorite show ever and it'll suck if it gets cancelled. I don't know that it will ever get great ratings though, which is the problem. It's sad that people would rather watch reality TV or by-the-numbers crime dramas and sitcoms like Two-and-a-half Men than a well-written, well-acted show that actually tries to be hilarious every time out.

• Got to take issue with you Rob. If anything, Doctor Who is a parody of Inspector Spacetime seeing as the Inspector premiered a year before.

• Geologically slow humor is the highest form of humor...

• You won't be sorry. Amongst the standard sitcom premises, there are tons of little jokes.

• I, too, stood by and watched as some of the best shows were struck down by the cold, unfeeling hands of their network masters.  In my shame, I too am compelled to action.  If you need a young, eager male in a mask and short-shorts to be your companion and partner, I'm available.

• That's exactly what's stopping them.

• Oh - also, I discovered Florence + The Machine from watching Community.  So awesome.

• Yes, because your TV actually registers everything you watch????

• I was just considering to start watching this show, this won me over. Pretty awesome.

• Agreed. It just saddens me that while BBT is mildly committed to is nerd audience (more laughing AT us the WITH us, as Community does), it still has that mainstream appeal.  I agree, Community is a niche show, but its really only reaching a small percentage of that niche, even with overwhelming critical love an a fervent fanbase. Whats stopping people from trying it? They would rather watch Grimm? 

• "All right, ALL RIGHT!  I've been bit, y'all.  You did what zombies do, congratulations."

• You have no idea how much I agree, Rob. Last night was another amazing episode and you can be sure as shit that I'll be writing to NBC to save Community.

• I am now sorry that I'm only a casual Community watcher. This is incredibly awesome.

• That Halloween episode was phenomenal. "You're welcome, Kevins!"

• Make sure you watch the episode when they air, too. The show needs all the ratings it can get.

• I'm a fan of anything Donald Glover is involved with. Huge fan of his raps under the name of Childish Gambino. I'm not a huge rap fan but he does it well.

• Evil Troy and Evil Aaaabed!

• Well, I got nothing better to do until The Dark Knight Rises comes out. I won't let you down, citizen!

• Community is directly up against another nerdy show in the same timeslot, Big Bang Theory. Of course, BBT is more pandering than genuinely nerdy, but they're still competing, and BBT is winning.

• My brothers convinced me to watch this show, after I had judged it by a lame promo I saw that made it seem like a rip-off of The Office (after that show had already run its course in the fifth season).  I was hooked from the first episode I saw, which was the paintball episode in the first season. And in the Halloween episode of the second season, the scene in which Troy, Abed and Jeff are wandering through the library basement and are startled by a cat jumping at them multiple times had me rolling on the floor laughing.

• Because people are dumb, and new ideas and originality scare them.

• I agree, the situation is probably not quite so dire as we all initially thought... But still. A part of me wishes that for once, TV would do me a solid and let me have my "Six Seasons and a Movie" of a legitimate, creative , excellent show.  The fact that Two and a Half Men still brings in fucking insane ratings and that Community get less then the commercials from said show blows my mind. Why does the mainstream hate everything smart? We live in a world where the Goddamn Batman and Spiderman are recognized as important, money-making machines, yet even in this "Nerd Renaissance", Community cant find a fucking audience.

• I've always had shit to do on Thursday nights. Damn TV executives never count DVR or Hulu viewings in the ratings.

• Several of my same nerd ilk have tried to get me to watch this show, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe I'll have to try a few episodes on Amazon VOD...

• Anything is possible https://twitter.com/#!/RealRonHoward/status/137711845040586752

• Can you add Carnivale and Deadwood to your list, please?

• But no Michael Keaton cameo?

• Eh, screw it, here's one of those Donald Glover moments anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSVlCNRUgC8 ...It's all amazing, but 1:40 is when the magic happens.

• 3 years for one punchline... THAT'S dedication.

• Perhapes if we say "community" three times in front of a mirror, the show will return...

• Peh, Superman seems too "mainstream" to be a fan of <i>Community</i>. The guy probably watches <i>Whitney</i> instead, for crissakes. No, this is clearly a job for Batman. Or Scud. Or, dare I say it, a Batman/Scud team-up.

• He'd be awesome as Jeff's dad.

• it still might find a second life on cable...

• that would have been an awesome, but less subtle, way to do this joke. have him come into the room in his guest star appearance when they say it the third time.

• *stands dejected as crowd cheers on Superman*

• I won't rest until we get our six seasons and a movie!

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