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Jazar · 2012-04-27T05:39:34.000Z

Definitely par for the course on L&O. I will expect a miraculous recovery by next week.

mystery · 2012-04-27T06:06:50.000Z

Allagash:

Loved the L&O coroner cameo.

I almost gave my TV a standing ovation when she appeared on screen. Fantastic stuff.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-27T06:38:59.000Z

Isn’t…

click only if you know the shock ending

“Star Burns” a writer on the show? Maybe he was just finding it too hard to put in the occasional cameo in the show plus his other duties, and he wrote himself out or something similar?

Papageno · 2012-04-27T08:14:24.000Z

Jazar:

The more L&O you’ve seen the more hilarious the episode is. The opening scene, the wise cracks, the “video lab”, the 50% law 50% order, the random shock ending and so much more. They even made Greendale look like NYC. That episode just became one of the best Community episodes of all time for me. And I finally got what they mean by “Basic Lupine Urology”.

The episode title still escapes me. What in the heck are they talking about?

I did love the episode, though.

Jazar · 2012-04-27T08:19:30.000Z

Episode Title

Means Dick Wolf. The creator of L&O.

Lake · 2012-04-27T08:45:52.000Z

This week more than makes up for the past couple of episodes.

RDansky · 2012-04-27T08:46:33.000Z

When Michael Ironside walked onscreen, I thought my entire universe was going to implode in a self-referential vortex.

Brilliant, brilliant episode.

BaggerMcGuirk · 2012-04-27T09:18:22.000Z

Well, that was tremendous. My wife and I went through a binge in the early 00’s where we watched every Law and Order from Season 1 to around where Briscoe left the show. I actually cheered when the coroner showed up. Every little touch was spot on. Also, I totally called who the culprit was when he showed up on screen. How often was it the little guy filing papers or running a small repair shop towards the beginning of an investigation?

Editer · 2012-04-27T10:44:40.000Z

Was Dick Wolf’s name the inspiration for the Penny Arcade debacle?

I’d heard a Community regular was going to die this year. Now we know.

Rock8man · 2012-04-28T10:25:59.000Z

That was a really good episode. And best of all, you didn’t need to be a Community fan to enjoy it either. Hopefully they’ll get some positive attention from such an awesome episode.

Andy_Bates · 2012-04-29T16:26:21.000Z

I disagree with the conventional wisdom that Community has to be more appealing to new viewers in order to succeed. There are plenty of by-the-numbers sitcoms where nothing changes from week to week, the characters never develop, and the plots are standard two-camera fare. Community is a very different show, and maybe it’s too different to stay successful, but I would rather see it fail on its own merits than succeed by trying to be something different.

The writers should make the best show they can come up with, instead of trying to make a show that they think will be appealing to new viewers. I never saw people criticizing Inception or Lost for not appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Mr_Zero · 2012-04-29T16:44:02.000Z

Community isn’t too advanced; it’s a sitcom on one of the big three networks. People don’t watch it very much because its comedy can be fitful, or only appealing to people who reaaaally like reference and parody.

awdougherty · 2012-04-29T17:32:31.000Z

For some reason I go the opposite way of some of the previous posters… I loved the Civil War one and thought The L&O one sucked. Not sure why, but eh L&O felt like the insight was the same level of what I might have made if I was spoofing the show in a homemade movie I put together with my teenage friends. I’m sure the same could be said for the Civil War one, but that’s just how the two landed for me. I dug the Dean’s “awesome” to the Omar Man’s Gotta Have a Code line, but you had to know Omar was going to say shit from The Wire at some point.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-29T17:38:00.000Z

I’m going to blow everyone’s mind.

I enjoyed both the Civil War AND the L&O episodes. And I find Law and Order AND the Civil War themselves incredibly boring!

Woolen_Horde · 2012-04-29T19:11:21.000Z

I loved Civil War, but L&O felt really awkward. For one, L&O spoofs were fun like two decades ago. Today, it’s like making a Cheers spoof now.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-04-29T19:30:09.000Z

Woolen Horde:

I loved Civil War, but L&O felt really awkward. For one, L&O spoofs were fun like two decades ago. Today, it’s like making a Cheers spoof now.

Oh man, I would LOVE a Cheers/Seinfeld/Friends spoof!

roBurky · 2012-04-29T20:06:02.000Z

There are times when I enjoy not getting any of the references on Community, because it means to my eyes the show just appears amazingly varied and full of cool stuff I’ve never seen before.

BrianRubin · 2012-04-29T20:14:49.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

I’m going to blow everyone’s mind.

I enjoyed both the Civil War AND the L&O episodes. And I find Law and Order AND the Civil War themselves incredibly boring!

Seconded.

Rock8man · 2012-04-30T02:43:42.000Z

Woolen Horde:

I loved Civil War, but L&O felt really awkward. For one, L&O spoofs were fun like two decades ago. Today, it’s like making a Cheers spoof now.

That’s one of the reasons why the L&O worked for me so much. When they were setting up the premise in the opening minutes, I thought “Oh, no, not a spoof one of these crime shows du jour”. I thought it would be spoofing CSI, NCIS or one of these other ones. But instead, they took it back old school and went to Law and Order, a show I used to really love until I got tired of it. But they really, really captured everything cool and quirky and weird about L&O within that half hour. Just sooooo well done.

TurinTur · 2012-04-30T03:38:39.000Z

I liked Civil war episode, I liked the L&O episode, and being honest, in fact I like 90% of the Community episodes. Their humor falls squarely in the type of humor I love.

I’m “in” for a Cheers or Friends spoof episode.