Posts tagged "Community"
The Way, Way Back: Movie Review

The Way, Way Back: Movie Review

Cool yourself off with our review of “The Way, Way Back,” the latest in a long line of summertime coming-of-age movies.

bLISTerd: The Greatest Sitcoms of All Time (Part 8)

bLISTerd: The Greatest Sitcoms of All Time (Part 8)

We’re almost there. Wonder what Larry, Darryl and Darryl have to say about this.

Poptificating: The 64th Emmy Awards

Poptificating: The 64th Emmy Awards

Whether we watched the ceremony or skimmed the results, the Popblerd team had one thing in common: we all had strong opinions to voice about the 64th annual Emmy Awards. How strong? Why don’t you read for yourself! Jesse, jilted FX fan: It was fucking awful and awkward. They spaced it out so much at the beginning that all the big ones at the end got played off. And don’t get me started on the lack of FX presence….. Big […]

Spin Cycle: Childish Gambino, R O Y A L T Y

Spin Cycle: Childish Gambino, R O Y A L T Y

Childish Gambino has a new mixtape you should really listen to. It’s called R O Y A L T Y and it’s free.

The Idiot Box: Community: Season Three in Retrospect

The Idiot Box: Community: Season Three in Retrospect

“Let’s talk about evil.” – Britta Perry (…Well, let’s talk about some other things first. We’ll get to evil eventually, I promise.) One of Community’s biggest strengths is its veritable wellspring of thematic versatility. As a television show set on a college campus, it’s always had a sort of built-in proclivity for conveying overarching lessons, morals of the story, and general larger truths. Because along with that academic setting comes the natural expectation that the characters are going to learn […]

The Singles Bar: Childish Gambino’s “Eat Your Vegetables”

Childish Gambino wants you to be healthy. That’s obviously what his latest, “Eat Your Vegetables”, is about, right? The man destined to be the next Will Smith in the entertainment industry (Hit show: Check!, Hit album: Check!, Hit movie: Does a cameo in The Muppets count?) keeps the momentum going from last year’s Camp full-length with a neat little ditty that’s offensively infectious and a great prelude to his upcoming mixtape and summer tour dates. I’d say that “Eat Your […]

The Idiot Box: Community: "Contemporary Impressionists"

The Idiot Box: Community: “Contemporary Impressionists”

Egos can be dangerous things. Inflated, they can make us forget how connected and indebted we are to the people we love. Bruised and shattered, they bring us crashing back down to the glaring reality that we aren’t perfect, flawless, or even close to ideal. The tough part is that after floating so high above such a difficult reality and suddenly finding ourselves back in the middle of it, it can take a while to catch our bearings. We suddenly […]

Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #36

We’re in an odd position, members of my generation, made to feel nostalgic about items that were never meant to have nostalgia attached to them. Almost every item from our youth was made cheaper, faster and with faster planned and unplanned obsolescence than our parents and grandparents’ generation. Even those items that were originally manufactured as part of an earlier generation were cheapened when they made their way into my time. This cycle has continued into the next generation. My […]

The Idiot Box: Homage à Trois: Musings on a Possible Community Porn Parody

The Idiot Box: Homage à Trois: Musings on a Possible Community Porn Parody

Community is coming back from its mid-season hiatus, but what about that porn parody that was announced last year? This article explores what a successful Community porn parody might look like.

The Popblerd Holiday Gift Guide: 2011 Edition

The Popblerd Holiday Gift Guide: 2011 Edition

At a loss for what to get that special someone (or not so special someone) for the holidays? Check out Popblerd’s 2011 Gift Guide and take notes!

The Idiot Box: Community: "Regional Holiday Music"

The Idiot Box: Community: “Regional Holiday Music”

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece on my Tumblr about NBC’s Community and how, more than anything, it’s about people living in relation with other people, overcoming their differences to establish a sense of togetherness and discover value, joy, and fellowship in one another. In that piece (some of which Todd VanDerWerff’s latest review seems to reaffirm, by the way), I cited “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”—the stop-motion Christmas episode from last season—as being the best episode of the series thus […]

Spin Cycle: Childish Gambino's "Camp"

Spin Cycle: Childish Gambino’s “Camp”

Donald Glover has been Childish Gambino for a long time so don’t live under the impression that he gained more fame from Community and decided to become a rapper. Be clear about one thing, Childish Gambino is the real deal and this is, without a doubt, Donald Glover’s Dark Twisted Fantasy. It can’t be coincidence that Camp comes out around the same time Kanye’s masterpiece dropped last year. If you didn’t know that Donald Glover was a rapping maniac before, […]