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I've been meaning to write this for a while, but figured I just needed to wait a bit. Anyway, it's about Community. When the show came back a few weeks ago, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how the show was giving up all that had made it good: cutting down on the weirdness and using the the fairly standard sitcom tone of Urban Matrimony to say that the show had some kind of identity crisis and was abandoning their trademark high concept episodes.

I thought these people were fucking stupid and would be proven wrong in two episodes. And they were.

The very next episode was the celebrity impersonations, with the meta humor of Jeff being more handsome than Ryan Seacrest and the Conversation between Abed and Evil Abed. And now we've had a two-parter episode about a war between Troy and Abed's blanket and pillow forts, complete with Civil War documentary style narration provided by Keith David; complete with a The Cape joke.

But even if we leave all that aside, Urban Matrimony wasn't an out of character moment for the show anyway. The show has always been about the group's overall and individual relationship dynamic. That an episode handled that in a more standard sitcomy way instead of say, Remedial Chaos Theory or Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, doesn't mean the show is "selling out".

Point being, Community never lost it's way, period.

Also, it's Queens of the Stone Age Friday, so enjoy that too