The One Season Of Community Worse Than Season Four

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  • čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
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    For many, the worst season of Community is Season 4, also known as The Gas Leak Year. Many Community fans would like to forget that Season 4 exists all together after creator Dan Harmon was not involved, but there is one season of Community that is far worse. When NBC decided not to pick up the hit sitcom, it transitioned to another streaming service, only to fail miserably. Did they green light a final season just to meet the in-joke of "Six Seasons and a Movie", or did they actually think they could reignite the fire?
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  • @Nerdstalgic
    @Nerdstalgic  Před 4 měsíci +9

    Click the link t2m.io/MO_Nerdstalgic and start your tycoon journey in MONOPOLY GO!

    • @eddiejoewalt7746
      @eddiejoewalt7746 Před 4 měsíci +1

      nerdstalgic are for s made by fs
      I’m tired of so called “deadhead buffons” fakers like you for falsely making misinformation videos like your called “Adult Animation in the USA” Video you did several weeks ago when you don’t know BS about The animation Industry including calling some Adult animation shows “ugly” but you did a video on “Why Futurama is better than the Simpsons” video and then you pointless “Where our USA’s version of anime like Millennium Actress/Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!” speech when NEVER DID a so-called anime Essay Video. For a guy Talking about Adult animation, and using a Arnold from Hey Arnold as it wallpaper/icon, YOU A FULL OF BS LIKE QAnon! If you going to make “truly” Video Essay, stop making LIES about animation Industry, you Kippe brain or the thousands of morons that watch that videos dont know 1 cent about anime or the American animation industry!

    • @eddiejoewalt7746
      @eddiejoewalt7746 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @nerdstalgic are a bunch of fakers/liars that make fake videos for for views credits!
      I’m tired of so called “deadhead buffons” fakers like you for falsely making misinformation videos like your called “Adult Animation in the USA” Video you did several weeks ago when you don’t know BS about The animation Industry including calling some Adult animation shows “ugly” but you did a video on “Why Futurama is better than the Simpsons” video and then you pointless “Where our USA’s version of anime like Millennium Actress/Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!” speech when NEVER DID a so-called anime Essay Video. For a guy Talking about Adult animation, and using a Arnold from Hey Arnold as it wallpaper/icon, YOU A FULL OF BS LIKE QAnon! If you going to make “truly” Video Essay, stop making LIES about animation Industry, you Kippe brain or the thousands of morons that watch that videos dont know 1 cent about anime or the American animation industry!

    • @eddiejoewalt7746
      @eddiejoewalt7746 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Hey @Nerdstalgic = Video Esseys are Fin dead and for s

    • @eddiejoewalt7746
      @eddiejoewalt7746 Před 4 měsíci

      f this QANon BS that is @Nerdstalgic! and it brainwashing 💩💩💩💩heads that watch their videos!

  • @SamTheSparrowYT
    @SamTheSparrowYT Před 4 měsíci +481

    I actually really like season 6. I would argue that it's better viewed as a sort of tragic, yet mature send off to a show that, rather than having lost its identity, is instead forging an entirely new one, all while saddeningly having to bid farewell.
    Also Jeff and Annie's relationship is layered and well-written and *tragic* and I love it and I'll die on this hill.

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt Před 4 měsíci +35

      Yeah, what does he mean forced relationship...? The scene he shows is specifically them NOT having a relationship.

    • @Phantom-kc9ly
      @Phantom-kc9ly Před 4 měsíci +2

      ​@@cloudkittit's an older man in his 20s or 30s with a woman younger than him.

    • @xandertrejo
      @xandertrejo Před 4 měsíci +11

      ​@@cloudkitt The show kept throwing out plotlines so Jeff can pine for a woman he met when she was 18 and he was 35

    • @frankleni6718
      @frankleni6718 Před 4 měsíci +4

      @@xandertrejoIt is a very realistic dynamic, whether you care to admit it or not

    • @Vivi_9
      @Vivi_9 Před 4 měsíci +3

      There's nothing wrong with season 6 and season 4 is great, just repeating the same tired opinions that are common on the internet, same as "season 1 of Parks and Rec/The Office are bad" - both statements untrue and circlejerked over and over

  • @cloudkitt
    @cloudkitt Před 4 měsíci +189

    Now here's a man who knows how to be wrong in a Community video.

    • @SchmergDergen
      @SchmergDergen Před 4 měsíci +14

      Hahah perfect. I think he just has Changnesia.

    • @jesterssketchbook
      @jesterssketchbook Před 4 měsíci +18

      yeh he kinda Britta'd this

    • @Vivi_9
      @Vivi_9 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@jesterssketchbook getting rid of Nerdstalgic, getting rid of the... N? Sounds very wrong lol

    • @jonathanbrito2829
      @jonathanbrito2829 Před 2 měsíci

      Why?

  • @pianist150
    @pianist150 Před 4 měsíci +466

    Season 6 is definitely different and you really feel the loss of the cast members. That being said it had some great jokes in it, much more memorable bits than anything in season 4, none of which I can remember

    • @DerMoerpler
      @DerMoerpler Před 4 měsíci +2

      The only ones I rewatch are the Halloween Episode (because I watch them all every season, but I actually enjoy it) and the one with Brie Larson at the dance. The rest are unremarkable.

    • @Cenriquezm
      @Cenriquezm Před 3 měsíci +4

      The Sophie B. Hawkins episode is great, one of the best Britta episodes in the show.

    • @TheBonVivant_
      @TheBonVivant_ Před 3 měsíci +5

      Season 6 has Elroy and Frankie Dart. Season 4 has nothing but Herstory of Dance

    • @DerMoerpler
      @DerMoerpler Před 3 měsíci

      @@TheBonVivant_Your pfp suggests that you have the sitcom tastes of a five star man.

    • @EurasianHobos
      @EurasianHobos Před 26 dny +2

      Season 4's freaky friday episode was great. The rest of the season... was mediocre at best and sometimes painfully bad.

  • @SirHarryDave
    @SirHarryDave Před 4 měsíci +323

    I gotta say Frankie and Elroy are two of my favorite characters in the show. Really unique and fun addition that really shook up the established dynamic. Wish they were around for longer or introduced in an earlier season, they could’ve really made an impact. It’s like if Parks and Rec introduced Ben and Chris in the last season

    • @greonhal
      @greonhal Před 4 měsíci +22

      The humble newcomers who came in and nailed it

    • @KolonelCeanders
      @KolonelCeanders Před 4 měsíci +1

      I mean I don’t really like them as replacement characters in the show but Elroy is the arbiter, you can’t hate him

    • @weirdTedE91
      @weirdTedE91 Před 4 měsíci +6

      I'd rather watch six seasons and a movie of Elroy than a five minute compilation of Pierce. Love me some Keith David.

  • @PotatoTreeProducts
    @PotatoTreeProducts Před 4 měsíci +504

    The Gas Leak Year isn't amazing, but I don't think it's as bad as people say.

    • @brandonhicks9926
      @brandonhicks9926 Před 4 měsíci +52

      I’ve been saying this for years. It’s still really good TV, even if it’s not quite as good as other seasons.

    • @co11in__18
      @co11in__18 Před 4 měsíci +37

      Yeah, at least it still more or less felt like Community. The same can’t really be said for season 6…

    • @medaman15able
      @medaman15able Před 4 měsíci +2

      It’s literally not

    • @tecpaocelotl
      @tecpaocelotl Před 4 měsíci

      Agree.

    • @tobiastames5224
      @tobiastames5224 Před 4 měsíci +15

      I absolutely hated it on my original watch, but when I rewatched the whole series a while ago I was waiting for the moment where I started hating season 4 and it just sort of never came.
      Season 4 is a lot more watchable than people give it credit for, and while it clearly isn't as good as seasons 1-3 it holds up surprisingly well (and far better than season 6, even though that too has its moments).

  • @theawemazingcrew9702
    @theawemazingcrew9702 Před 4 měsíci +42

    I'm glad to see people disagreeing. I don't think season 6 is given enough credit

  • @coreymandelzys1547
    @coreymandelzys1547 Před 4 měsíci +139

    I can partially agree with the idea that the show goes through its biggest change in season 6. Abed even says it in the first episode of that season when meeting Frankie, that this was once a found family show now turned into a more grounded sitcom. To me, that's Harmon acknowledging that this season is going to have to be different in order to work. At this point, they're no longer taking classes together and are just sort of doing whatever. So yeah, to me it is the least satisfying to watch of the five Harmon seasons, even though it has some pretty standout moments (the first episode, the paintball episode, the wedding episode, the finale). It's just a good crop of episodes, lacking the same heart it had earlier in its run. I can't really fault anyone for that because it was an impossible task to recreate the previous magic. I think they did the best with what they had and it is still a pretty enjoyable season.
    That being said it's so much better than season 4. In your next video, compare the season finale's of season 4 and 6. Then try and tell me how season 6 is worse.

    • @henrypeters5291
      @henrypeters5291 Před 4 měsíci +9

      While I agree with you on the first part, the last part is a cop out because season 6 was to end the whole show and the Nerdstalgic team openly admitted that the finale was a good episode. Do not let appearances fool you. The fact that Jeff and Pierce are the only ones who graduate at the end of season 4 and the fact that Abed alludes to Jeff coming back as a teacher in the season 4 finale shows that there was some intention for a season 5.
      That said the biggest problem with season 6 is the decline of Jeff Winger's character (and the increased flanderization of Britta but that requires its own paragraph and is no better in season 4). Let's be real. His arc was over in season 4 and he just went downwards after that.

    • @divekingfan7150
      @divekingfan7150 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@henrypeters5291Season 4 was also supposed to work as a series finale, characters literally graduate from Greendale, including it’s lead Jeff. Comparing the finales i think is fitting in showing how flat 4 falls compared to the creativity in the writing for 6.

    • @henrypeters5291
      @henrypeters5291 Před 4 měsíci

      @@divekingfan7150 Again, they only did that with two characters and Abed literally predicted that Jeff would come back as a teacher. At the bare minimum, they were trying to keep the door open for a season 5.

    • @noteworthyinsignificance
      @noteworthyinsignificance Před 3 měsíci +1

      Once Troy left, nothing was the same. Everyone says Abed is who pulled the group together. But without Troy, Abed would have ended up being an annoying stereotypical cast member who is on the autism spectrum but who no one admits is on the spectrum. He would just be someone they put up with like the cat did with Chevy Chase's character because they all literally hated him. Troy sailed off with the soul of the show.

    • @jte3209
      @jte3209 Před 15 hodinami

      ⁠​⁠@@henrypeters5291I agree mostly with you, season 6’s finale was a way easier task than season 4s. I would disagree that season 4s finale was at all a good episode though. I think season 6 is on even keel with season 4 for me but it’s a silly comparison to make. Season 6 Harmon is working with 4/7 of the original cast and having to shoe horn the dean, Chang and 2 completely new characters into try to put together some kind of group dynamic. Season 4 writers had the original cast and only managed maybe 3 or 4 half decent episodes out of 13. Had Harmon had the full original cast for 13 episodes he would’ve made a far better season than the season 4 writers.
      Harmon for sure makes mistakes post season 4 though which people sometimes try too hard to make excuses for, he’s not a perfect writer and seemed to be extremely thrown off his mojo by limitations put on him post season 3.

  • @hoffl09
    @hoffl09 Před 4 měsíci +159

    The final joke of the season with the scripted family was really funny though.

  • @MoxieMcMurder
    @MoxieMcMurder Před 4 měsíci +23

    You're streets behind, Nerdstalgic. Season 6 is much better than a lot of people realise.

  • @Grimmlocked
    @Grimmlocked Před 4 měsíci +25

    I watched season 6 basically on repeat when I was graduating college and felt adrift and lost.... It brought me comfort knowing that change is inevitable and it's okay to move on.

  • @ClaysUsername
    @ClaysUsername Před 4 měsíci +102

    I disagree with season 6 being boring, but that's because I've always seen season 6 as a parody of the rest of the show. It's not as insane as seasons 2 and 3, and it's not as deep or intensely funny as parts of season 5 (like Troy leaving or the ACB episode), but it just seem like the writers and cast are goofing off one last time before we really say goodbye. It's Dan Harmon's Irish goodbye.

    • @HyperactiveJake
      @HyperactiveJake Před 4 měsíci +10

      Hundred percent! Damn Nerdstalgic, I've disagreed with some of your takes before but never as strongly as this one. As someone who's watched the whole show through a few times, and seasons 1-3 at least 5 or 6 times, Season 6 is one of my favourites.
      Yeah, it's pretty different from season 2-3, and I didn't really get it the first time through. But every time I've seen it I've loved it more. It feels like a season made for the people like me who have seen the show so much it forms half the wiring in their brain, and it plays around a lot with the whack-ass expectations we have about the show (which are whack-ass because the show was already playing with our expectations from watching other media).
      So many bits throughout the entire run that killed me! Leonard's "tears in rain" moment always pops into my head. I cried at the end of the giant hand episode. And my god, the series finale really hit me hard. Cried like a baby. The whole thing felt like an extremely personal journey.
      I'm hoping our boy reads some of these comments and sees some of what people love about this season.

  • @mbanerjee5889
    @mbanerjee5889 Před 4 měsíci +83

    8:43 Forced romantic relationship? How? It's been been building since season 1. And it's not a "relationship", they don't become a couple.

    • @claytonmitchell5685
      @claytonmitchell5685 Před 4 měsíci +7

      IMO it felt forced since season 1. It seems I’m mostly alone in feeling that, but it bothered me from the beginning. I had no problem with the writers moving on from Jeff and Britta and deciding not to do romance between the main group of characters. But because it’s where the show started from the pilot, the chemistry between Jeff and Britta always felt much more natural, until they made Britta into too much of a punching bag

    • @boiledpnut4765
      @boiledpnut4765 Před 3 měsíci

      I think Jeff and Annie had amazing chemistry and I always thought they should've ended up together. The only weird part was the age difference but Jeff was emotionally a child and Annie grew up quickly throughout the early seasons.

  • @ftuT
    @ftuT Před 4 měsíci +59

    Don't remember having any of your impressions, neither with S1 nor S6. Britta became the punching bag long before the last season, it was even acknowledged more than once in the show. Paget Brewster character was criminally underrated, she had some amazing scenes with the dean. I'll have to rewatch it to see if I agree with anything you've said (I'm on S4 rewatch right now, it has its moments).

    • @Richard_Nickerson
      @Richard_Nickerson Před 4 měsíci

      I love Elroy too. I wish they had been additions rather than replacements. That bring said, I didn't miss Pierce.

  • @johnysmith7787
    @johnysmith7787 Před 4 měsíci +54

    The sixth season literally has one of the best episodes with the wedding but season six has so many great bits there’s a couple lows but does not out way.

    • @joewalters2003
      @joewalters2003 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Now that's a man that knows how to marry his cousin

    • @boiledpnut4765
      @boiledpnut4765 Před 3 měsíci

      I love the virtual reality episode

    • @zeenkosis
      @zeenkosis Před 3 měsíci

      I love the wedding episode

  • @coreyhaynes7951
    @coreyhaynes7951 Před 4 měsíci +95

    Man, I adore Community. Can't wait for the movie.

    • @Bendover69694
      @Bendover69694 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Is it confirmed??

    • @jacobogato7892
      @jacobogato7892 Před 4 měsíci +8

      @@Bendover69694 yes, it is going to be streaming on peacock. There is no current release date as far as ive known

    • @KenLieck
      @KenLieck Před 4 měsíci +5

      @@jacobogato7892 I'll add that it's been listed as being in pre-production or whatever on IMDb for a while now, but on the other hand, that doesn't necessarily mean anything either. Oh! Donald Glover is listed as taking part, which is an important thing -- obviously Chevy Chase, being a dead character who is hated by everyone involved with the show anyhow, will *not* be taking part.

    • @jacobogato7892
      @jacobogato7892 Před 4 měsíci +5

      @@KenLieck Which is unfortunate. Chevy couldve really made a comeback with pierce but he let his own ego (amongst other things) get in the way. At least we have the troy and abed relationship (hopefully) which was a highlight of the first 3 seasons

  • @estherjewel5456
    @estherjewel5456 Před 4 měsíci +46

    I couldn’t disagree more. Season 6 has great moments and it feels natural. They don’t attempt to string on anything, it feels like watching people in your life grow…

  • @danielrobinson2823
    @danielrobinson2823 Před 4 měsíci +86

    Personally, I liked season 6. There are valid points here for sure, but in general I enjoyed S6, especially the wedding episode. I also thought Frankie and Elroy were funny characters played by great actors.

    • @Grimmlocked
      @Grimmlocked Před 4 měsíci +6

      Now there's a man who knows who knows how to enjoy a season of television

  • @rogerfurlong1535
    @rogerfurlong1535 Před 4 měsíci +31

    Season 6 wasn't their best, but it's still streets ahead of the gas leak year.

  •  Před 4 měsíci +30

    The Monopoly Ad feels like a parody. Never heard anyone talk so excited about this game 😂

    • @raspyswirly
      @raspyswirly Před 4 měsíci +3

      Is it a tribute to the Community game ad in the final episode?

    • @ShingiMavima
      @ShingiMavima Před 2 měsíci

      Haha. I cackled too when I heard that. I was like "Okay, I know you gotta do this...but it's frikkin monopoly bro."

  • @terminatrix92
    @terminatrix92 Před 4 měsíci +37

    Hard disagree Nerdstalgic. The ‘identity’ of the show is to be a weird emotional COMEDY. Season 4 is bad comedy that mascarades as Community. Season 6 is a natural evolution. And what I Like about Harmon is he let the show change, it had too! Actors and writers changed! So the world changed, people left. Frankly it’s more genuine than most sitcoms. Rather than faking the same feeling he let the show be darker and stranger

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq Před 4 měsíci +83

    Season 4 was mostly forgettable, though it did have a few bright spots, notably the Sophie B. Hawkins episode and Brie Larson guest starring. I liked that they poked fun of this season in later episodes.

    • @KenLieck
      @KenLieck Před 4 měsíci +2

      Community was such a great show that it could go completely to sh*t and still be fantastic!

    • @ramshacklealex7772
      @ramshacklealex7772 Před 4 měsíci +2

      I really liked Brie Larsen in that role, but the fact that it was Brie Larsen kind of undercut any hopes one might have had for that relationship developing, because you knew Brie Larsen was too big a star at that point to be on the show regularly

    • @KolonelCeanders
      @KolonelCeanders Před 4 měsíci

      Who was Brie Larson? It’s been a while since I saw the show

    • @expiredmilk5435
      @expiredmilk5435 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@KolonelCeandersRachel, abeds gf

    • @KolonelCeanders
      @KolonelCeanders Před 4 měsíci

      @@expiredmilk5435 oh yeah

  • @robh7800
    @robh7800 Před 4 měsíci +11

    I mean the dean in VR still makes me laugh

  • @brandonr2906
    @brandonr2906 Před 4 měsíci +72

    Ok this video has to just be rage-baiting, but I'll fall for it. Frankie and Elroy are fantastic characters (who I hope show up in the movie), and Season 6 is criminally underrated and eons better than Season 4.
    Now THIS is a man who knows how to marry his cousin!
    (also you could at least pronounce Gillian Jacobs' name correctly)

    • @TY-km8hj
      @TY-km8hj Před 4 měsíci +9

      I agree they really were underrated characters

    • @Bigpontious
      @Bigpontious Před 4 měsíci +6

      i firmly disagree with the premise of this video. good video just the same

    • @felip989
      @felip989 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Thank you!
      Season 6 is kinda different from the others speciailly due to the characters changes and pacing (cause of the longer runtime) but it's still great! The worst episode of S6 maybe still better than half of S4 episodes despite its difficulties. The last three episodes are among the best of the whole show. Frankie and Elroy were excellent additions. It has its flaws, it's not better than seasons 1, 2, 3 or 5, but it is definitely an underrated season.

    • @SchmergDergen
      @SchmergDergen Před 4 měsíci +3

      He's too busy slanging clickbait to learn anything.

    • @theperson8539
      @theperson8539 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Exactly, and he tries to frame it like it’s an accepted fact within the fan base or something. Season 6 is awesome.

  • @305Independent
    @305Independent Před 4 měsíci +49

    This is nonsense. S6 is HILARIOUS largely because it's so out of pocket, and Frankie and Elroy are amazing additions. The Dean VR and guerilla marketing episodes are in my top 10..

    • @msushi98
      @msushi98 Před 4 měsíci +1

      How does it feel to be in the 1%?

    • @305Independent
      @305Independent Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@msushi98 I've always been exceptional so it's nothing new

    • @boiledpnut4765
      @boiledpnut4765 Před 3 měsíci

      I completely agree and love the VR episode so much.

  • @Swiggle45
    @Swiggle45 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Britta’s “…So?” is literally one of my favorite moments in the season tho

  • @coachmcguirk6297
    @coachmcguirk6297 Před 4 měsíci +11

    But FIRST like the video?! After you drop that bomb of a hot take on us we are supposed to like before we know if we agree or not? The timing for that plug is hilarious to me

  • @TheCanadianLobster
    @TheCanadianLobster Před 4 měsíci +42

    I always thought season 6 was off but i still kind of like the episode where they make a movie with one scene of chang

    • @KenLieck
      @KenLieck Před 4 měsíci

      As I said above in reference to season 4, Community was such a great show that it could go completely to sh*t and still be fantastic!

    • @Richard_Nickerson
      @Richard_Nickerson Před 4 měsíci

      Best episode of the final season

  • @blazehaze233
    @blazehaze233 Před 4 měsíci +11

    I loved Frankie and Elroy I think the writers did a great job at incorporating them to the cast

  • @patrickdaly2860
    @patrickdaly2860 Před 4 měsíci +7

    I don't just dislike this take because I enjoy season 6 -- I fundamentally disagree with it because season 6 is actually the perfect natural progression of the core themes of the show and conclusion for its protagonist.
    The entirety of Community was always about accepting the place you're in and making it a real home, regardless of what setbacks you face or what imperfections arise in your current situation or even how that place might, itself, change in time. Jeff starts off as a smarmy lawyer hell-bent on restoring his law degree and smarm and subsequently getting back to exactly where he was. Over the course of the first three seasons, he learns to accept that situations and people can change for the better, and that the school that he once saw as an embarrassing means to an end can actually be a more nourishing home than anything he's ever known if he just lets it be. By season 5, he's come to love this new home and unabashedly cares for the people in it, but starts to worry about the impermanence of the setup and, by extent, life. His answer to that anxiety is to artificially engineer a situation in which he can keep his friends and world static. It works for a while, but even in season 5, the cracks are starting to show. It's unsustainable. It's a pipe dream.
    Season 5 ends on a false high, and I love that season 6 starts off gloomier than ever. What looked like a victory was actually a band-aid solution to a truth that isn't even a problem: we all grow and change. Jeff is getting older and entering a new phase in life. So are his friends, albeit different phases -- phases Jeff already had the pleasure of going through. Season 6 sees the quiet acceptance of the hard truth that you will make meaningful connections in life with some people who will stay and some people who won't. It also makes the point that being a member of a community is more than just being part of a set group of people united by a common goal; it's a baseline acknowledgment of humanity and a willingness to meet people and situations on their terms and put in the elbow grease to make them *your* people and situations.
    I know that much of the material that supports this argument (Troy/Shirley being absent, the dimmer feeling of Greendale, the general struggle to maintain a consistent quality and thematic throughline of a show that changed hands at an integral moment) is more BTS than creative decision making, but I don't care. I adore the show, and feel that the final season was a perfectly bittersweet cap on its core ideas and messaging.
    At least until this goddamn movie comes out.

  • @elisha2358
    @elisha2358 Před 4 měsíci +11

    I disagree. Season 6 was a gem. So touching, and the new characters fit in okay. Rare L take from Nerdstalgic imo.

  • @thecinephill8999
    @thecinephill8999 Před 4 měsíci +14

    It’s interesting that you would lean on the idea of identity for a season when S4’s entire identity is regurgitating jokes and storylines from the 3 that preceded it. Can any of you remember any jokes from S4 that wasn’t just repeating previous bits?

    • @notthegreatestdetective
      @notthegreatestdetective Před 4 měsíci +1

      pierce's haunted house episode? and not every joke from every show is ever original, not arguing or anything i just personally didn't think season 6 was any better or worse than season 4

  • @MichaelCutts7
    @MichaelCutts7 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Season 6 feels like a return to the more grounded show from Season 1. It definitely gets stronger on a rewatch.

  • @tomclazieflynn
    @tomclazieflynn Před 4 měsíci +18

    Season 6 is a bit bloated, but the jokes are still strong and the final three episodes are up there with the very best. Season 4, however, feels like people trying to write a season of Community, but not ever finding what made it special in the first place.

  • @jedlawson3494
    @jedlawson3494 Před 4 měsíci +16

    Dude, you're wrong. The gas leak year is still worse.

    • @SchmergDergen
      @SchmergDergen Před 4 měsíci +3

      Yeah looks like there was a gas leak where ever Nerdstalgic wrote the script for this video.

    • @JUnit41484
      @JUnit41484 Před 4 měsíci +3

      I love the channel but he missed with this one, Elroy might be my favorite character 😂

  • @Jakuuu
    @Jakuuu Před 4 měsíci +21

    With all due respect... S6 was a great season

  • @jordansweet8054
    @jordansweet8054 Před 4 měsíci +15

    I still appreciate Season 6 on its own terms. A lot of your [points are accurate; the prolonged runtime hurts several episodes, Abed was severely flanderized there's some skippable moments, and you miss the rest of the cast but I appreciate the building darker tone that really makes emotional moments like the Honda episode punch, Elroy and Frankie are fun new characters. And that finale always hits. Jeff's alcholoism was built up in the prior season in RePilot and the G.I. Joe episode so it doesn't feel completely out of left field. Season 4 is over hated but its still the worse to me.

  • @anubratoroy749
    @anubratoroy749 Před 4 měsíci +13

    I have strongly disagree!! Season 6 gets a lot less credit than it deserves. As Frankie said in the pilot, "Good shows change." While nowhere close to the original's dynamic, Elroy and Frankie were great additions to the cast. Community evolved to explore the characters better with a dose of reality this time around but it never lost it's charm that made it special!! Return to D&D, Final Paintball, Britta's heartbreak, Garret's wedding and of course the excellent touching finale

  • @corbinowens2437
    @corbinowens2437 Před 4 měsíci +4

    “Jeff…Winger…you son of a b!tch” is seriously top 10 lines of the show for me

  • @marcen12
    @marcen12 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Season six is what happens when everything changes and try to make the best of a bad situation. It's not as good as the first 3 seasons but it was more experimental. Since there were new writers on the show, OF COURSE situations would be different in universe.

  • @kiritoprime996
    @kiritoprime996 Před 4 měsíci +9

    The reason the gas leak year is so hated is because we just came off 3 of the best seasons of TV ever made! PEAK TV. I dont think season 6 was bad, i liked it, I hought it was good just in a different way.

  • @ramshacklealex7772
    @ramshacklealex7772 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Honestly, the DVD commentary from season 1 was funnier than the actual show in season 4

  • @Jason-fb1gc
    @Jason-fb1gc Před 4 měsíci +3

    Whenever I watched the show. I didn't know anything about the background behind the development. So I couldn't tell how any of the seasons were different and they're all very good to me. when people say that a certain season is bad, I have no idea what they're talking about.

  • @pdsegura26
    @pdsegura26 Před 4 měsíci +4

    The Gas Lit Year was bad, but not as bad as your transition to the Monopoly Add. That was reaaaaally bad.

  • @J.Jreds19
    @J.Jreds19 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Season 6 is way better than Season 4

  • @BoldAnBrash
    @BoldAnBrash Před 4 měsíci +5

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the brief appearance of Buzz Hickey as a temporary member of the group until he suddenly disappeared in season 6

  • @DevlinEdora
    @DevlinEdora Před 4 měsíci +5

    I actually agreed with a lot of what this video said when I first watched season 6, but over time I really grew to appreciate it. It was obviously very different (how could it not be), but I think they did a really great job given the things they had to navigate. I think the bigger mistake would have been trying to replicate the older seasons despite the missing cast and the way the characters had moved out of a study group being a reasonable glue for them. They embraced the changes and really made the best of it, in my opinion. Also, the finale still has the power to demolish me on every watch lol.

    • @notthegreatestdetective
      @notthegreatestdetective Před 4 měsíci

      yeah, like i think it could've gone better after the trouble started, but they did what they could

  • @TheCoolcaspar
    @TheCoolcaspar Před 4 měsíci +2

    When I first watched gommunity and came to the 6th season I didn't really like it off the cuff, but when rewatched the show i actually really enjoyed that season and felt its somewhat more somber tone very fitting. It felt like we watched the characters grow up, and also for me it always seemed liek the lighting was a bit brighter, while having a bit more colaer ligning if that makes sense, which made it feel more optimistic, like there is finally light at the end lf the long tumultues tunnel that was the whacky time they have spend at communkty. And you are happy to see how the characters have grown but it's also a bit bittersweet because you know that soon you will have to say goodbye to these characters, which is incapsulated perfectly in the ending episode which is so insanely funny, and heartfelt imo. And as you see Jeff say goodbye to Abed you can really feel how much he and the rest of the crew have changed Jeffs life and how much he actually love then, which is why it's hard for him to say good ye to them, but again also why he isn't sad to see them go since they are pursuong what will make them happy which os what love is really about, ensuring that the ones that matter to you are happy even when that means letting them go. And this bittersweet sendoff is also a perfect incasling of how it feels for us the viewers. We can relate to how Jeff feels so well, because it mirrors how we also now have to say goodbye to this show and these characters which we have grown to love, since nothing lasts forever and it's not really something that it should strive to either since it while inevitable only result in the magic being lost. I truly believe that this shows ending is so great at conveying all of this while also giving a really insightfull look into Harmons mind and (for the lack of a better word) soul. It's just such a great sendoff to a once in a lifetime show, and it's honestly kind of miracoulous that we got such a season after all. So thank you for that Harmon.

  • @reeseorta3052
    @reeseorta3052 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I disagree with this take entirely, season 6 is definitely different but it has more soul in it than season 4 did in terms of characters acting like themselves, as well as showing the ways the characters have changed and evolved, and it touches on some sad topics like the end of the show and how different it is

  • @MegaStunfiskandHat
    @MegaStunfiskandHat Před 4 měsíci +6

    It was just a quick point but I think you misinterpreted the bit about britta's parents. They are terrible people that were awful to britta and they continue to be by gaslighting her about the things they did when she was younger and insisting that none of it happened and they're better now. The rest of the group likes them because of the polite front they put up and the money they give, but at the core they're bad parents who are trying to erase their bad parenting without accepting responsibility or apologizing to britta

    • @grace_1139
      @grace_1139 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Yep, agree. I actually liked the study group less after seeing how they treated Britta regarding her parents. Britta was so understanding of them when it came to their problems with their parents, and even actively helped several of them

    • @MsDouggieFresh
      @MsDouggieFresh Před 4 měsíci +2

      yeah, this episode/plotline with her parents becomes WAY worse once you learn about britta’s not-so-secret childhood trauma. it makes annie and abed look like straight up villains

  • @terrellnewbill4273
    @terrellnewbill4273 Před 4 měsíci +4

    I've never disagreed with one of this channel's videos until now. Season 6 was great. The wedding episode and the espionage paintball episode are two of the series best. Frankie and Elroy fit in so organically throughout the season, and the finale was perfect even with the lost cast members. Nowhere near as bad as season 4

  • @rroca9140
    @rroca9140 Před 4 měsíci +7

    The only reason why people started hating season four so much was because Dan Harmon and the show itself started making fun of how bad it was.

  • @joseph-fernando-piano
    @joseph-fernando-piano Před 3 měsíci

    Community season 6 is like that feeling of being in your post-college years/mid-30s, in that sad, uncertain, nostalgic place, between the carefree days of seeing your friends all the time, and the full entry into adulthood when you know you'll all have drifted apart eventually...

  • @patrynize
    @patrynize Před 4 měsíci +2

    Gas leak year is not as bad as everyone says, and Frankie and Elroy are excellent additions! I loved S6

  • @TheChrisHype
    @TheChrisHype Před 4 měsíci +2

    I’m not sure if I agree.
    The thing about Community is that I’m willing to say that there was never a “bad” season. There are simply seasons that weren’t as good as others.

  • @Lamq555
    @Lamq555 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Paget Brewster was great! I hope she comes back for the movie 🤞🏼

  • @jon_odinson
    @jon_odinson Před 4 měsíci +3

    I’m so proud of this community, season 6 is great, not perfect, but still great. And definitely streets ahead of the gas leak year.

  • @Steve-vp6mm
    @Steve-vp6mm Před 4 měsíci +4

    Now THIS is a man who knows how to clickbait!

  • @TheDrsalvation
    @TheDrsalvation Před 4 měsíci +1

    I'm gonna be honest, I started watching the show in december, right now I'm at season 5, and I Can't say I find most seasons memorable in a sense where I don't remember what event happened in season 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. I remember the episode with the six timelines, but I don't remember in what season it happened. The only things I remember were the classes they used to take, and Chang is the anchor I use to be able to place the seasons... if an event happened when Chang was a spanish teacher, it was season 1, if it happened when he was a student, it was season 2, if it happened when he was a security guard, season 3, if he had changnesia, season 4, but in season 5 he's just there.
    But for example, the episode with the KFC space rocket, I know it happened, but I don't know in which season.

  • @familysmith570
    @familysmith570 Před 2 měsíci +2

    This season kinda feels like S9 of scrubs, I just get that vibe.

  • @Punmaster9001
    @Punmaster9001 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Nobody want's to play monoploy.
    I still want to see a movie....

  • @maryjanerx
    @maryjanerx Před 4 měsíci +3

    Bamboozled!!! I for sure thought this was about season 4.
    JESUS WEPT

  • @thatguymatt5816
    @thatguymatt5816 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I guess this is your “hot take” huh? Season 6 has a lot of heart and it’s damn funny. Couldn’t disagree more

  • @irbricksceo
    @irbricksceo Před 4 měsíci +2

    I'm actually surprised to see this. Most people I've seen place season 6 above S4, and often above S5 as well (due, in large part, to the strength of Frankie who is really well liked). Personally, I rank the seasons: 2>3>1>6>5>4

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt Před 4 měsíci

      This is my ranking as well.

  • @monkeyjoe70
    @monkeyjoe70 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The only complaint I have for S6 is probably the poor lighting

  • @adamgrunther1367
    @adamgrunther1367 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Hot take: I think the worst episode of this season was the paintball episode. The message of how the paintball battles are stupid and should be a thing of the past felt wrong. If they did that in season 2 or 3, I might have bought it, but it was the 6th and final season. It was a little too late for the show to start waving it’s finger at the audience. Plus, one of the most special things about Greendale was how weird it was. Saying that that weirdness was one of the problems with Greendale that needed to stop did not sit right with me at all.

  • @5quepasa
    @5quepasa Před 2 měsíci +1

    y'know, it's okay to be wrong. There are a few episodes in the middle of the season that suck, the hacker episode, the ipad prisoners episode, but by and large, it's got the same cleverness that defined the best seasons of the show. Wedding videography is an all-timer, the gay dean episode was incredibly prescient for its time, and the finale is heartfelt and true to what the show was always meant to be.

  • @colenedrow2792
    @colenedrow2792 Před 4 měsíci +3

    S6 still has some gold episodes. S4 is completely forgettable though.

  • @ModernGameChangers
    @ModernGameChangers Před 4 měsíci +1

    I have watched the entire series about 20 times and I always have this demotivation around the end of season 4 and halfway through five. I have never quite been able to put it into words as to why, but this vid definitely helps contextualize some of that. Especially in regards to season six. There are fun episodes in season six and the new characters I actually liked, but you're right. the format changed leaving out the soul that the first three had, and to a lesser extend 4 and 5. Its really terrible how what became of what I consider as one of the best series of all time. I still love Community, but I cant help but think what might have been.

  • @fangirlonfire
    @fangirlonfire Před 4 měsíci +5

    I love how, as a community fan, i could already tell it’s season 4 from that bright ass pic of Jeff in the thumbnail.

  • @neon1899
    @neon1899 Před měsícem +1

    I can understand people not being a huge fan of S6 (I personally love it), but to call it worse than gasleak year is just counter factual.

  • @culturelimp4403
    @culturelimp4403 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Bad take is bad and you should feel bad. Season 6 is phenomenal and Frankie and Elroy are some of the best characters in the show.

  • @ryankiesling2885
    @ryankiesling2885 Před 4 měsíci +1

    A lot of bait all tied around a monopoly go ad. Thanks nerdstalgic, ya reaaaaaally got me

  • @irighterotica
    @irighterotica Před 4 měsíci +1

    I (not a Community fan btw) always assumed it was called The Gas Leak Year because there was an in-story gas leak that caused everyone to hallucinate and/or forget things.

    • @JimmyneutronwasokayIguess
      @JimmyneutronwasokayIguess Před 4 měsíci

      I think that’s the implication, that they were acting out of character because of a gas leak

  • @fuzzzone
    @fuzzzone Před 4 měsíci +1

    Nerdstalgic has got to be one of the only successful CZcams channels where the comment section is almost entirely people saying that they disagree with the channel's take on xyz subject. It's weird; the videos are well-produced and well-written but I always walk away from them frustrated at how they seem to have missed the magic of whatever they were discussing.

  • @johndegraffenried2845
    @johndegraffenried2845 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Season 6 didn't feel like Community honestly, mainly due to the missing core cast members. But Season 6 gave us some of the most memorable lines and quips, mostly from Frankie. - Drama and conflict are exciting and easy. Making a difference can be pretty boring

  • @SirGeeeO
    @SirGeeeO Před 4 měsíci +2

    I've never met a community fan with this take on season 6. congrats, I guess

  • @matthewbolin9646
    @matthewbolin9646 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Gillian Jacobs's first name is pronounced with a hard G, like in Gilligan, not a soft G, like you do it here (and like Gillian Anderson from the X-Files has her named pronounced). Jacobs shared that her mom pronounced it with a hard G from her birth, but doesn't know why she made that choice.

  • @Gelph
    @Gelph Před 4 měsíci +1

    Nerdstalgic: season 6 is awful
    Literally everyone else: wtf do you mean

  • @fullmetalvash
    @fullmetalvash Před 4 měsíci +2

    Yeah, gonna have to say this video is wrong. It does make some valid criticisms of season 6 but saying it’s worse than 4 is wrong. The main reasons season 6 felt off were the longer episode run times and the missing group members. Frankie and Elroy were pretty good additions though. I do agree that since this was their 6th year there - having to come up with reasons to keep everyone there also might’ve hurt the season but season 4 didn’t have any of those issues and still felt off and not very good. Season 6 had several challenges to overcome and still felt more inline than 4 did.

  • @codetcodes
    @codetcodes Před 4 měsíci +1

    Season 6 was closer to Season 1 than any of the other seasons.

  • @j-macthegreat
    @j-macthegreat Před 4 měsíci +1

    A good video idea as an extension of this - would be an analysis of why the final episode of Season 6 made the rest of the boring episodes worth getting through.

  • @richardsapingo1828
    @richardsapingo1828 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Your opinion on season six is streets behind.

  • @Z-Strike026
    @Z-Strike026 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I’m not even really mad at this video. I’m mad that the voice over’s favorite board game is Monopoly. Monopoly is the Gas Leak Year of board games.

  • @seanb8472
    @seanb8472 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The stage adaptation of 'The Karate Kid' was brilliant. The paintball episode was just as good as the previous ones. The final 10 minutes of the finale plus the end credit scene were heart wrenching. Other than those examples, the entire season was unwatchable

  • @Tera_B_Twilight
    @Tera_B_Twilight Před 6 dny

    I went into Community long after it's run, meaning all 6 seasons were back to back to back. I also went into it pretty blind. So let me tell you that after S4, when the new characters and new relationship dynamic was brought in, it was actually REALLY obvious to me that the show had changed hands and the writers didn't know what they had.

  • @Mwezi828
    @Mwezi828 Před 4 měsíci +2

    L take on Annie and Jeff, and the finale. Has way more soul than this sold out channel

  • @RickVG02
    @RickVG02 Před 4 měsíci

    Just happend to be stuck into a Community binge right now

  • @Maxitoes
    @Maxitoes Před 4 měsíci +3

    Season 6 was not the worst lmao

  • @DrAmazing
    @DrAmazing Před 4 měsíci +2

    Is this guy seriously using the VR episode as an example of a bad episode?

  • @zekumi
    @zekumi Před 4 měsíci +1

    I’m really disappointed about the ads.

  • @jeremyknees9227
    @jeremyknees9227 Před 4 měsíci

    Tbh I haven't watched this video but idk where to comment about an idea I'd love you guys to talk about. What happened to the movies like push, chronicle, wanted, jumper, the covenant, Hancock, etc... in a general way? I miss those one time knock off super person movies....

  • @Ezreal0922
    @Ezreal0922 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Season 6 is probably my first or second favorite season lol

  • @HarvestStore
    @HarvestStore Před 4 měsíci

    Great video.

  • @christopherramsey7027
    @christopherramsey7027 Před 4 měsíci

    Season 6 deconstructs, questions, and re-examines everything the show was, and I like it. The characters learn to accept change, grow up, and, ultimately, move on.

  • @Serevarno
    @Serevarno Před 4 měsíci +2

    The worst season of Community is still better than so much other tv.

  • @yasumedia9528
    @yasumedia9528 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you!!!

  • @inconvenienced
    @inconvenienced Před 4 měsíci +2

    Wow, this is actually worse than I expected - but I feel like you deserve credit for what you got right, which is that season 6 was obligatory. It 100% was. You'll never hear Harmon say it out loud but it's very clear that he was essentially going out of his way to fulfill the prophecy he wrote for himself.
    Everything else in this video is either factually inaccurate or an opinion I disagree with - Chevy Chase did NOT get fired for saying racist things to Donald Glover, I can't tell if the "beefed up" description about Keith David + Paget Brewster means you think they were already characters in the show but they weren't, Jeff being an alcoholic was not some revelation they had never mentioned before (dude literally lands himself in the hospital for drinking w/pills the season prior) Britta being a "punching bag" has been leaned on so heavily for so long that it literally gets called out in the first script Harmon wrote when he came back... It's just such an aggressively bad take - ridiculous statements like "the finale is only good because it's propped up by the performances of the actors" should be ridiculous on it's face because SEASON 4 USED THE SAME ACTORS - you think the difference is work ethic rather than the material they're performing?? Also w/r/t the finale, you're either just not familiar with the show or being blatantly dishonest by suggesting they "forced" a Jeff and Annie romance and then showing one clip of them kissing, that's a resolution to a much more complicated storyline that spanned all 6 seasons and you're making it out like they rode off into the sunset together.
    I have much, much more to say about this but it's not worth wasting a day typing out to someone who doesn't care - I don't know if you write these yourself or just perform them, but if someone else submitted this I would double check their work from now on because absolutely NOTHING in this video serves as evidence to the very bold claim that S6 is worse than S4. If you're going to make that statement maybe back it up with some comparisons, rather than just listing reasons why you didn't like S6 and hoping people have forgotten enough of S4 that they connect the dots in their own minds. It's lazy at best, dishonest at worst, and the reason I'm unsubscribing - I have no problem debating the quality of Community, that's half the fun of fandom, but authoritatively stating that S6 is the worst season and then listing a bunch of flaws that S4 is just as guilty of is bullshit clickbait that I will not continue to support. All the best.

  • @essteben
    @essteben Před 4 měsíci +1

    The show lost it’s magic after Childish left

  • @AAlexRR
    @AAlexRR Před 4 měsíci +8

    And now this is a man who knows how to do great videos