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Just got confirmation that I'm booked to work as a Greendale student again, heading back to the Community set on Monday! AHHH! I can't wait!

I have a non-disclosure agreement signed with the casting agency, so I won't be able to share any details until the episode has aired, but I'm super jazzed. :D

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I wonder now that Troy will be gone, will that girl Abed met at the 'dating two girls at once' dance be a part of the show?
 
I wonder now that Troy will be gone, will that girl Abed met at the 'dating two girls at once' dance be a part of the show?
That would be really cool, Brie Larson was great as Rachel. I've no idea if it'll happen, but I'd be a fan if it did.

I finished my time on the set of 'Community' this week and I had an absolute blast. :D I can't share any details until the episode airs, but I can say that I'm VERY excited for this season and I laughed a lot. The cast and crew were wonderful to work with.
 
I finished my time on the set of 'Community' this week and I had an absolute blast. :D I can't share any details until the episode airs, but I can say that I'm VERY excited for this season and I laughed a lot. The cast and crew were wonderful to work with.
I'm so envious!
Just curious, they never let you take photos when nothing is going on, do they? I've done some walk-on stuff for TV, but 'talking head' segments, nothing like your work. I am allowed to take whatever photos I want, I assume they don't let you bring a camera onto set?
The idea of getting shot of myself sitting at the study room table. Man, that'd almost be worth getting kicked off the set for...
 
I'm so envious!
Haha, thanks and sorry!
Just curious, they never let you take photos when nothing is going on, do they? I've done some walk-on stuff for TV, but 'talking head' segments, nothing like your work. I am allowed to take whatever photos I want, I assume they don't let you bring a camera onto set?
The idea of getting a shot of myself sitting at the study room table. Man, that'd almost be worth getting kicked off the set for...
Hahaha, Goodness, no, not really possible. I have multiple non-disclosure agreements signed banning any photo-taking during work on set: there's been cell phone leak snafus in the past with shows like "Glee," so these days there's an absolutely no-tolerance policy for that sort of stuff on most scripted network shows.
However, when people do approved set visits where active filming isn't taking place they can take photos, like when Nathan Fillion wandered by the set last season:
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So I definitely didn't and couldn't get any photos, but when the crew found out I was a big fan, they did let me go into the Study Room by myself during a break and sit in all the chairs and have my "Sistine Chapel" moments. It was surreal and very cool.

...And speaking of Nathan, here's a photo I AM allowed to share, posted by Alison today:
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Oh, the horror! Comedic hyperbole!

By the way, google the author of that piece and marvel at how she found her way up onto a high horse from essentially trading sexual favors for gossip.
 
None of which has anything to do with the fact that Dan Harmon says a lot of things he ought not to.

True, but it's not as if he issued a press release or did a televised interview sh#%ting on season 4 as if it were the antichrist; he was responding to discussion in the comments of a reddit thread about the differences between seasons and made an elaborate joke and metaphor that was in poor taste, but was still a joke that only barbs people and businesses who were steering his show in a different direction after he was excised from it. Understandable, though not commendable.

Here's something else he wrote on reddit that also included an elaborate analogy for humorous effect. It was in response to the infighting people have had regarding season four and pre-season four, with special attention given to a comment that stated that 'Community' subreddits and forum threads (like this one) primarily showcase praise upon praise with little regard to criticism:

Dan Harmon said:
I think we need to clear something up here. This subreddit does not pin praise upon praise. Not on me or my work, that's for damn sure. I'd know if that were the case. I know where to go online when I want praise and THIS IS NOT THE PLACE and it shouldn't be.

As far as I can measure, half of the stuff in this sub is negative. Half. If that's not scientifically true, I'd use the word "enough." Enough is negative. Nothing wrong with that. Sure, there's the whole "why would you watch a show that you have this many complaints about" question but if we're going to teach the internet how to stop consuming by complaining, let's all head over to the Simpsons with a lot of mops, and if shows nobody ever complains about are so great then why don't I watch them. I understand the internet.

This subreddit's illness, if it has one that needs curing and can be cured, is this "I'm an underdog and you're circle jerking" disease that ERUPTED like a volcano in season 4. We all know what happened. It was a Civil War between two peoples with equally good intentions: the people that loved Community so much they wanted it to live forever and the people that loved Community so much they wanted it to die. Like a married couple standing over a dog that got hit by a car, and one person is saying "it's okay, it's okay," and stroking it and the other person is saying "it's not okay" and grabbing a big rock. Who's right to yell at whom? Well, it depends on your definition of a healthy dog, but the good news is, that issue's over, because this dog is up.

But now we have the legacy fight between the married couple, along the lines of "I can't believe you wanted to kill that dog" versus "I can't believe you were willing to let it suffer just to make yourself feel better and we still don't know if it has internal bleeding."

To which I say, guys, three very important things to now remember:

You're MARRIED.

You weren't driving the car that hit the dog, it was a robot truck controlled by a corporation.

There's no internal bleeding.

Love or hate whatever details of the show you want but if you cast yourself as part of some overall faction, as if there's such a thing as a Pro This or a Loyalist That, as if it's possible to be a True or Untrue fan of Community, the only side that wins is going to be certain entities that shall remain nameless, that resent this show, resent all of you, and resent me and that can't wait for it to go away quietly. They want to prove nothing ever happened. The ones driving the truck. This can be the third act of a great movie you guys. **** can be about to go down. I have a feeling bad guys are going to be falling in poop to tuba music while armies of actual underdogs - the unmeasured - cheer.

Not in the actual show. The show is mostly going to be muppets. It's cheaper.
 
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According to who? He's allowed to be honest about how he, as an individual and as the creator of the show, feels.

And it has to do with the contrived outrage that has more to do with site traffic than right and wrong/appropriate and inappropriate.
 
And NBC is allowed to fire him if they don't appreciate the manner he expresses himself, and the negative attention that may be brought to the show and network because of that.
 
And NBC is allowed to fire him if they don't appreciate the manner he expresses himself, and the negative attention that may be brought to the show and network because of that.
Absolutely. Which they did, and can do again.

I don't approve of Dan Harmon's conduct, but I do approve of the television shows he makes. My hope is that the success of the latter gets enough approval by NBC to outpace their eroding tolerance of the former to the point where we can get a satisfying conclusion to Community that was written and run by Harmon. I really want to see how he'd wrap up all the divergent factors and character changes that have occurred over the last couple years.
 
Sweet, but they make it sound like Brie's only going to be around for one episode to 'wrap up' where they left things with her character...
 
Ye Gods, I know actors often have serious insecurity issues (I knew someone who was an acting coach and he told me that no completely sane person gets into that profession), but man, he has problems.
First Chevy and now this. Beats me what either of them think is going to happen, especially Glover, bailing from a show with a fanatical (but admittedly small) fan base. I've never understood this, how many shows do you see that are popular, and when an actor leaves, it's like they went to the same place where Jimmy Hoffa is today?
 
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