Why did this show “fail”, commercially speaking? It barely kept up in ratings and revenue during its runtime, and it almost got cancelled multiple times after the 2nd or 3rd season because of lack of interest while shows like The Office or Parks & Rec were much more popular.
Years after the show ended, it somehow picked up a lot of steam during the streaming era of tv shows.
Was it truly ahead of it’s time? Was it too niche or too “smart” for audiences? Why did it fail?
Community
woke snarky millenialcore goyslop that's why
is Troy gay?
he could've fucked Annie since high school
Because it's shit.
it’s not that funny or clever, it’s just quirk chungus bullshit with alt comedy cred.
it's "smart" humour
Post more Annie tits. I watched it for Annie. I wish she were real. I would do anything for evil Annie.
I didn't finish the first episode because there was smoking. Evil shit
It's community college level smart, which is quite fitting.
Community’s audience largely consisted of young people who were watching the show online instead of as regular television broadcasts. The studio wanted something like The Big Bang Theory (which had a very large boomer audience) because they felt the shows contained simular pop cultural references. If it were released today the studio would probably have a better way to gauge the actual ratings. Then again, Community is very much a product of a bygone era while also being the first of a new, then unexplored wave. It kind of could have only existed at exactly the time it did.
Community’s biggest problem is that it’s a really hard pitch. Try to explain the premise to someone in a way that both convinces them to watch it and accurately describes the content and style.
it pandered too much to its fanboys and didnt have larger appeal
removed too many core cast members
Childhood is lusting after Annie
Adulthood is realising Britta makes more sense
If we are to believe the show itself: it was always moderately popular but only streaming showed this. TV ratings only take boomers into account (look up how ratings were measured traditionally, literally only boomers would do what it took to be accounted for) and I'm not gonna say the show was too smart for them, but it was definitely too fast and packed with jokes they wouldn't understand (honestly even I, as a young person, found that a bit annoying at times, it references not-really-obscure-but-just-unpopular-enough-to-be-outside-the-mainstream pop culture and nerd shit a bit too much). Also the old man character was always the butt of the joke and the first to get flanderized, so right off the bat the boomers probably felt insulted by it.
holy fuck, are zoomers trashing everything that is good now?
FUCK OFF
this show was great, get some tast zoomer faggots
Boring and gay
it was streets ahead
Only really season 1. Chase's character became a real asshole very quickly after that and ruined the dynamics a lot of the time.
Fuck your cringelord garbage show faggot
I’ve only watched the series once but I feel like Britta could have been written out of the show after season 2 and it wouldn’t have changed much. The wrong character died.
snarky reddit humor
The show really fucked up with the flanderization
and no, the show nodding to itself with a cheeky "you seemed smarter than me when we first met" does not make it okay
So it's Anon Babble approved? Gotcha
be me watching community
damn I want to fuck Britta
she gets with Dong Lover on the show
no longer find her attractive
Why am I like this?
literally yes, zoomers just sperg 24/7 about how everything is woke, slop or whatever buzzword is trending on tiktok this week, they've never actually watched half the shit they're posting about. add to that it's a comedy show, jokes confuse and anger the autismo more than most things.
S4 is non-canon.
Community is very much a product of a bygone era while also being the first of a new, then unexplored wave
Elaborate?
Maybe in bizzaro world, like Jeff, we all came for the Britta and stayed for the Annie.
Annie > Britta
Gillian > Alison
Correct.
People need to stop acting like this is some profound, hot take.
It premiered the same autumn in 2009 I was attending community college right after graduation. I’m unsure how it went under my radar but the parallel would have been nice to watch back then
The show was only good for season 1 and most of 2 when it was still grounded in reality before it went full blown retard cartoon world. The “gimmick” and the themed episodes paintball or the pillow fort ones were the worst. The show peaked when the main antagonist was a smelly hippy with weird nipples
the network tried to advertise the “dinner with Abed” episode as a pulp fiction parody episode
even they didn’t know how to advertise the show they owned
The dan harmon special.
characters aside, Gillian aged wonderfully compared to Alison
Annie was an uggo in high school until her adderal addiction made her lose a bunch of weight.
Zoomers don’t like it because it genuinely hasn’t aged well.
to be fair it was 2009 and “snarky reddit humor” hadn’t been done to death yet. It very much was amongst the first of its kind
Uh, meta comedy?
Trips of ‘yeah that’s a huge part of why things are no longer heartfelt or remotely genuine’
If you ride the line between tongue in cheek and genuine too closely and do it too well, it becomes a foreign entity to these autists
joel mchale is an insufferable faggot and chevy chase carries it
it's fucking boring
Chevy was completely right about Dan Harmon
you’re not funny! …..you’re OK!
It’s literally a sitcom so if your tism leaves you too impaired to not be be perplexed by interpersonal relationships then of course you’d lack the ability to come to understand any of the elements that make it interesting kek
lol
Disagree. Britta at least served as a foil to Jeff, Annie and Shirley.
Abed the character just completely ruined the show. His constant 4th wall breaking, genre aware gimmick completely destroyed any chance of the show having any heart or depth, and therefore any actual character development, because Abed would always be the turd in the ointment to basically point out how they were all in a tv show and not real people. They then stuck him in a cringe redditcore friendship with Troy, which just made them into cartoon characters. They should have kept him as a garden variety sperg like he was in the first few episodes instead of the omniscient rainman he became.
Gillian aged wonderful-ACK!
see the thing is she would look fine if this was her married with 2 kids. the problem is she is neither of those things. She looks fine got a cute mommy in her 40s but she isn’t a mom and that’s the problem
40 years old
never married
still no children
Why didn't you save her Anon Babble?
Chevy sabotaged it
Abed was a piece of shit and we are meant to be rooting for him
No one is acting like that you dumb soillennial faggot. He's just posting the consensus.
You're based
Mudsharks are revolting to any sane man
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