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I felt P&R was the Office in the public sector.

I don't like the Office at all - just can't relate ... I've tried to watch the show and just don't find the humor - maybe because I never worked in an office? Parks and Recreation was the same for me - tried it and didn't like it at all. But I thought Community was very funny and I liked the characters. Hope it sticks around for a while.

A Community College is only two years, but I thought the show is worth watching again. It seems some of the posts are veering off the subject of the show - Community.

TOTALLY agree. Just saying that 'its The Office in the public sector' doesn't make it funny or original. It would probably be a better show if it wasn't created by the same people who did the office. Then it might have had a more interesting, fresher take on the idea, instead of feeling like such a retread.

The main actor being a douche is what makes him funny.

I thought the pilot was just mildly amusing, with a few glimmers of brilliance here and there. However, it clearly set up all the characters and the potential for more funny situations. I'll keep watching for a few more episodes to see how it goes. I HOPE they give Chevy more to do.

I've heard people say this, but I don't think you have to have worked in an Office to get it. I know many people who have never worked in an Office who love the show. Maybe it's the lack of a laugh track that gets you?

No - I like shows without laugh tracks too ... I just do not find The Office funny at all - I don't/just can't find the humor in the show and I've tried. Don't know why - I've tried to watch it a few times and never get 10 mins in and have to turn it off - thought maybe you had to have worked in an office to get it.... I LOVE comedy shows - watch a LOT of them - 30 Rock, Big Bang Theory, 2.5 Men - hilarious shows - even watched some Monty Python on Netflix last nite ... Office - not so much for me ... at all - sorry.

Watched the pilot on Hulu yesterday. Thoughts it won enough laughs to deserve further Saturday evening viewings. Not strong enough to pull my away from watching Fringe (virus monsters shooting out of people's mouths, c'mon!), but certain;y strong enough to pick up some viewing when everything else flames out.

I'd also add that a lot of sitcoms take a while to feel out their best material. People who judged a show like The Big Bang Theory on the first half of its first season have been missing out ever since.

Community has some good material. Abdel is very funny. The blond works. Chevy Chase works better than expected.

The only thing I'd really fault Community for is being so down on its subject. I could see "they're all losers cause they go to community college" wearing thin.

Better Off Ted isn't a bad show. It's just a very narrowly targeted type of humor. You either get that show and sit there wheezing from laughing so hard with your face covered in tears and snot bubbles, or else you don't get the show and change the channels within five minutes.

I'd also offer that ABC may be farming Better Off Ted as a source of new patents. After all, hurricane-proof dogs would be pretty badass. And when they're invented, ABC can claim infringement thansk to Better Off Ted.

I liked the first episode.

I did notice that in the guide data, the next episode is titled "Pilot". I wonder if they showed them out of order or if they just titled them that way to be funny?

The next episode is titled "Spanish 101".

i think i found your problem...you used Two And A Half Men and hilarious in the same sentence .

I love the Office and have watched it religiously for its entire run so far. P&R is just not funny IMO. I watched 4 or 5 episodes last season and wasn't laughing at all so, I stopped watching. I find all the characters annoying and I just can't stand Amy Poehler (have never liked her or found her funny at all). I was surprised to see that P&R was renewed.

As far as Community goes, I liked the pilot and will definitely watch it in the weeks to come. It was nice to see Chase in a decent role again. Love Chevy Chase.

Like I said, this guy shows up, and the show is much better. That's why it doesn't make sense that he wasn't in the pilot. His name is in the opening credits. Now many have tuned out without seeing the best part.

What's a ethic actor?

There was no Elaine in the "Seinfeld" pilot. Niles didn't meet Daphne in the "Frasier" pilot. How many tuned out because of that?

And James T. Kirk wasn't in the Star Trek pilot.

Killed this season pass after the second episode. Both the wife and were pretty bored and found ourselves not laughing much. We thought it had promise after the first show, but not so much after last night.

Even the 90's was a different era. These days the networks seem to be more ratings conscious and if the pilot doesn't do well, especially for a sitcom, the show usually ends with a short life. The networks have plenty of other shows to turn to.

And although you put a smiley face, your question makes me think you do not understand how these things work these days vs. 90's. Back then we didn't have massive hype coming from all directions for every new show. And we didn't have a recognizable comedic face from movies such as Ken Jeong shown in all the hype, and in the opening credits, but notably absent from the pilot. All the hype and ads showed Chevy Chase. If he wasn't in the pilot people would say something. Ken Jeong doesn't appear and nobody seems to care, even though he's the funniest thing in the show, as shown in his debut.

There was very little fanfare for new non-spin off shows in the pre-internet late 80's/90's, such as Seinfeld. Hardly anyone even knew who Jerry Seinfeld was, let alone Julia Louis-Dreyfus when the pilot aired July 5, 1989. Totally unfair comparison IMHO.

I confess to not knowing how things work. NBC stayed with "3rd Rock from the Sun" even though the ratings sunk lower every year until they finally canceled it after six years when it was ranked #89. I'm grateful to NBC for keeping it that long because it was one of my all-time favorite shows. Then I started watching a show called "Hidden Hills" that I thought was pretty good and the critics liked it, and NBC canceled it without giving them a chance to finish the season.

I forgot to watch "Community" last night, but I watched it twice on the NBC web site today. It was another great episode.

Hilarious show. So much possibility. Much better than Parks.

This episode was a downer from the first week. Not funny at all. Thought P & R was much better. Will give it a few more looks.

Asian guys always get stuck with the non descript role, so it's good to see one guy making a career out of playing basically the same wacko character.

So, this is going to be the entire plot of the show, huh? Every episode is going to be some variant of "these people are losers because they go to community college".

It has its moments. But, I have to say it is pretty much the last show I watch on Hulu each week before I decide to do chores I've been putting off. Watchable enough when your alternative is a 31-0 college football game on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Not so sure it will ever contend for my primetime viewing.

A good template for Community, at least in my mind, would be The Big Bang Theory. TBBT got much better as it embraced the strengths of its characters, instead of mocking them. By the current season (third), TBBT barely ever condescends to its characters. As the show went from "we are nerds, blah, blah" to "we are nerds, f--k yeah!" it founds its zone.

I think Community would be a much better show if it could just be about college.

The funniest moments from ep 2 were achieved playing off the protest culture. Community does score double points for the Guatemala joke. Anyone who ever had some college professor assign the diary of Rigoberta Menchu should have gotten some mileage out that one.

The weakest moments were when they were making Chevy Chase look as crazy and dumb as possible. I thought the joke about the presentation being homophobic and anti-Israel was much funnier said than shown. I don't even get the characterization -- if he were a real political conservative returning adult student, his main mental block would be the Clintons, anyhow.

The show is onto something. But, they really need to embrace their subject instead of talking down to it. Right now it doesn't look like that's where the show is going.

As a University of Illinois football fan you have described why I will continue to watch this program after being defeated by Ohio State last weekend by that score.

2nd episode was a bit of a letdown. I hope they don't reboot every episode and have McHale be a jerk for 20 minutes only to become a sweet softy for the final two minutes. That formula is getting old already.

He needs to forget about blondie because the jerk is much more funny.

Wow, good thing you're not over-analyzing. It's unfortunate, because as we all know, the more analysis, the funnier it gets.

Any show that openly flaunts a character with Asperger's Syndrome in its pilot can be over-analyzed into oblivion.

This is the first week I remembered to watch "Community" (still in progress as I write this) so I won't need to watch the Web version, and next week the show moves to a new time.

That's how to kill a new show. Move it to a new time.

Third episode is very funny so far.