The Blogg

If you’ve not watched the show “Community” Thursdays on NBC, you should give the first few episodes a try. I think it may have surpassed “The Office” as my favorite show in that lineup, as good Office episodes have become less and less common. “Parks And Recreation” is also quite good, but that is a topic for another time. “Community” is much like “Family Guy” in that more than half of the show is parodying other media, lampshade hanging, taking reasonable ideas to their illogical extremes, and one-liners. Initially character development was important, but more recent episodes have been mostly exploring how the characters interact in increasingly absurd scenarios.

That said, this week’s episode was especially made of win. I have never played paintball myself. It sounds like a lot of fun in theory, but I feared it would devolve into arguments about who shot first, whether or not someone had really been hit, etc. If it were played as in this episode, where people struck with paint immediately act like corpses, I would be all about that. I did try laser tag once many years ago, assuming that the use of sensors would mean that one’s weapon would be disabled as soon as they became a casualty. Instead there were no tactics whatsoever and opponents just stood across from each other scoring a dozen hits each before returning to power their weapons at their own base. Do there exist more “realistic” forms of this?

While I would not expect a comedy of this nature to be extremely careful about continuity, there was something that made little sense to me in this one. For at least the first half dozen episodes Jeff took no trouble to hide from Britta or anyone else his desire to get in her pants. Now when people say there is sexual tension between them he denies it. What gives?