"I lived in New York."

[ozmissage]

I’ve been mulling what my fannish life will look like in a post-Lost world. This mulling usually leads to wailing and eating too much chocolate. But no more. I know where I’m going after I find out what the freaking island is, after I get my coffee date, after I see Charlie Pace one more time (that’s going to happen, right?), after everybody leaves their keys on the table…wait, wrong show, whatever after it ends you can find me at Greendale College.

I have seen the promise land my friends and it looks like Joel McHale. Join me under the cut for a mature discussion about how Community is the greatest show in the history of the world and how if you’re not watching it I feel bad for you because there is a hole in your fannish heart and you don’t even know about it. But mostly for spoilers for tonight’s ep.

* JEFF WINGER PLAYED POOL IN SHORTS. THEN UNDERWEAR. THEN NAKED. WITH ANOTHER GUY. THEN HE GOT KISSED BY OTHER GUY. ALL WHILE THAT SONG FROM THAT MOVIE ABOUT POOL PLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND. AND ANNIE CHECKED HIM OUT. HOLY CRAP.

*And Abed pretended to be Don Draper to pick up Annie who is also Pete’s wife. I….OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW.

* I wish I was brown Joey.

* I can’t wait to see Shirley’s face when Abed and Troy eventually start dating. They will woo her with their adorable adorableness and epic BFF-ness and she’ll forget all about bringing them to Jesus.  And it will be awesome.

* Bert and Ernie tag. Sweet god. Troy was supposed to be at his cousin’s funeral. That shouldn’t be funny and yet it totally is.

* “Baggel.” Oh Britta, never change. You are like a perfect, amazing person and I love you to pieces.

*Also, Pierce!

*And Senor Chang.

*AND EVERYTHING. I CAN’T BE COHERANT ABOUT THIS AND I CAN’T STOP CAPSLOCKING. BEST. SHOW. EVER.

Also there was an Office baby. I appreciate The Office's commitment to realism, but the thing is if you tell people the truth about what it’s like to have a baby no one is ever going to do it. This episode kind of scarred me for life. Spoilers under the cut. 

*The first half hour was adorable and sweet and involved frazzled Jim and a freaking out, slightly crazy Pam and Kevin being awesome and Ryan reading poetry while wearing a scarf. In short: it was kind of perfect.

Then part two happened and there was a wailing baby and lots of talking about Pam’s breasts and lactating and she fed the wrong baby and they were clearly terrified, as was I. And Dwight destroyed their house…ugh. See this is the part you usually don’t see on television, the part where babies are hard. They cry and you never know what they want and this is your life for the next eighteen years Jim and Pam. Only soon there will be a screaming toddler and then a whiny eight-year old throwing temper tantrums in the supermarket and then a teenager being ridiculous because that’s usually their default setting and they’ll still be in Scranton. Selling copiers. And now I’m depressed.

They’ll be okay I guess. I hope. I think I’m projecting because infants scare me and I only like children when I know I can send them home to someone else and the idea of actually having one of my own makes me feel like hyperventilating a little bit.

But Ryan wore a scarf. And glasses. And read poetry. I’m going to focus on that part.

Finally, I’ve realized two things:

1) Dean and Scully are going to end up going head to head. In other words, shit just got real. This is personal now. I swear if he beats Scully I will flounce off the freaking internet. I will not live in a world that chooses Dean Winchester over Dana Scully. Hell, if there was no Dana Scully there wouldn’t be a Dean Winchester.

2) It’s very likely that Juliet Burke and Loralei Gilmore will have to face off. I can not vote in that race. It’s like the universe is conspiring against me. I won’t choose. You can’t make me.

Why am I taking this so seriously? I’m going to have an ulcer before this all over with.

Comments

[valhalla37.livejournal.com]

AMAZING episode. Pure amazing-ness. Community always manages to pretty much make me laugh from end to end, but this was seriously epic. And the tag!!!!! (Which I think deserves multiple exclamation marks.) Seriously lost my mind.

It's funny, because you're so on-point with The Office stuff, but I actually had the opposite reaction, as in "I cannot wait." Kinda ridiculous, but there you have it. ;P And I'm glad the show wasn't all rainbows and ponies about having a newborn, since it's clearly not.

And Ryan's terrible poetry! That was like, half the guys I knew in university. Fantastic.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

That tag!!! OMG, it was perfect and totally deserves multiple exclamation points.

I'm dying for this show to be on DVD. I imagine I'll just watch it over and over until my DVD player dies from exhaustion.

It's funny, because you're so on-point with The Office stuff, but I actually had the opposite reaction, as in "I cannot wait."

I think that just proves how awesome and mature you are. I'm still afraid babies will break when I hold them. It just seems so grown up and scary to me, but I like how the show presented it. It felt very real and I've always loved that aspect of The Office.

Poor Ryan. He's so ridiculous right now. And yet I still love him. ;)