Not one episode made me ever want to stop watching, the same can be said for all 67 episodes of community that have so. The episode touches on a lot of action movie tropes and moments and is just a genuine joy to watch. It was the episode where the show took a whole bunch of things it had been doing in season one and then sent them through a blender with a bunch of action movie cliches. Sep 29, 2010 john woos the killer is the most overt and consistent reference in the episode. Sep 08, 2014 intro to a fistful of paintballs from the 2nd season of community on nbc. Acting as a sequel to modern warfare from the first season, dean pelton once again announces plans for a game of paintball. Community had an epic paintball episode where the whole campus engages in a paintball war and the last one standing gets first choice of classes the next semester. Community critics consensus with dan harmon back as its show runner, community returns with a familiar new energy and more fun, exciting adventures for the greendale gang. I thought it was exceedingly clever and very fun, and i liked the way that it built many of the seasons major conflicts into the story proper. Much of the time, these gimmick episodes fail horrifically, but every so. The action is wild, and the nods to pretty much every action movie you know and love comes fast and furiously ahem. A fistful of paintballs is the 23rd episode and part one of the twopart second season finale of community.
To enter and activate the submenu links, hit the down arrow. Community, a smart comedy series about a band of misfits who attend greendale community college. The paintball game first appeared in the season one episode modern. Pierce pulls this on jeff, and inadvertently allows annie to escape from the black rider. The episode originally premiered on may 5, 2011 on nbc. John woos the killer is the most overt and consistent reference in the episode. Its a big, bold, ridiculous episode of television, and yet it so completely commits to its vision of greendale as a postapocalyptic wasteland in the midst of a giant paintball war that it feels both very funny and very serious in every. So why does community love its popculture references so much. Abed explains that their sexual tension is putting everyone on edge and affecting the group. To access the menus on this page please perform the following steps. Greendale community college is transformed into an apocalyptic war zone when the dean promises the winner of a paintball competition priority registration. In this episode senor chang busts into a room rocking the tm15 on fullauto to the sound of oriental music.
The meta, innovative genius of community the atlantic. Only a show like community can pull off paintball episodes. Greendale is torn apart after a campuswide game of paintball gets. Community s02 ep23 a fistful of paintballs 1 hd watch. A trailer i made from the twopart finale of the second season of community to show people how cool and epic it is and to invite them to watch this one of a kind sitcom. Throughout the shows sixseason run, entire episodes are dedicated as homages to. A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college. Apr 03, 2020 the episode finds the entire campus turned into a war zone when a paintball battle goes wild. However, before the study group can compete for the prize they must first deal with a more personal. A fistful of paintballs shoves greendale into the paintstained wild west where pierce builds a. May 18, 2012 if you revisit the first episode of community, theres surprisingly little indication of how amazingly strange the show would become, and certainly no clue that three seasons it would come.
May 06, 2010 modern warfare the paintball game was starting, and the dean. A safe place for serious discussion of the tv show community text post only. However, before the study group can compete for the prize they must first deal with a more personal conflict. General references notestrivia quotesgoofs steve relives the vietnam war. Modern espionage is a paintball episode and, like the best of community s paintball episodes read. The paintball assassin games are annual competition events held towards the end of the school year at greendale community college.
Im looking for a chart or a list of all or most of the tvmovie influences, tropes found in each episode. The paintball guns of community posted by kelly on may 6, 2011 at 9. Let me just say, then, that modern warfare is not just one of the best episodes of community so far but one of the best episodes of tv of the season so far. Dec 18, 2011 fan made trailersummary of the three paintball episodes from seasons 1 and 2 of community that i made. Since community is about everything, this fight between troy and abed is also about all wars ever. Community was my first american tv show that i watched. Community was always an exercise in popculture metareferences. This is one of the few episode titles that doesnt take the form of a class name. In later seasons there are more parodies, like another paintball episode but with a western theme and a very cool zombie episode. Community s creator explains every reference from last night. Paintball on community what paintball guns were used.
With joel mchale, danny pudi, donald glover, chevy chase. End tag recurring themes continuity garrett to jeff jeff and britta arrive together at the study room annoying everyone with their flirtatious arguing. In the episode, after the dean announces the prize for a friendly game of paintball, greendale sinks into a state of allout paintball war, with every student battling for supremacy. The season consists of episodes and aired on nbc on thursdays at 8. The remains of the study group around the campfire and jeff and brittas afteraction patchup. But community is so obviously constructed every week, so obviously. Community blasts off into the simulated final frontier tv. Hiding within the halfhour sitcom format, community was always an exercise in popculture meta references. Community, instead, is a weekly satire of the sitcom genre, a spoof of pop culture in general, and an occasionally profound critique of. Community has a few paintball episodes and each one takes the scale of the show to a new level.
A fist full of paintballs jeffrey kirkpatrick at may 5, 2011 10. This website presents every movie, tv or celebrity mention on every episode of community tv series by every main character. Community episode pilot a the breakfast club reference. When i first heard of it on the first season i thought it was going to suck but it was one of the best episodes. A fistful of paintballs opens on a dimly lit hallway, neil is heard yelling, being followed by mike and his gang. The paintball episode may be the best in television history. Troy and abed as the two hardboiled detectives tracking down leads and interrogating witnesses is probably the highlight of a very funny, very welldone episode. Season 1 was good television, but it was the climactic paintball episode that really saw community come into its own. Without further ado, here are all the episodes of community, from absolute worst to alltime best. The first relevant precedent is, of course, biblical. Community a fistful of paintballs teaser trailer youtube.
The next season they had a two parter, half based on westerns, half on star wars. With joel mchale, gillian jacobs, danny pudi, yvette nicole brown. Its a big, bold, ridiculous episode of television, and yet it so completely commits to its vision of greendale as a postapocalyptic wasteland in the midst of a giant paintball war that it feels both very funny and very serious in. The community episode modern warfare provides examples of. Community was a comedy about a group of community college students who met for a study group.
Its completely absurd but done so well, like many of community s episodes. Not one episode made me ever want to stop watching, the same can be said for all 67 episodes of community that have so far been released spanning across three seasons. There are a lot of references to specific films here, down to individual. Except, even before that, there were already glimmers of awesome. The concept of someone firing two guns at once while flying in slow motion through the air was sorta originated in this film. Apr 15, 2020 it isnt one of the funniest episodes of community, but it is maybe the most layered and emotionally complex episode. With some help from his fellow classmates, winger forms a study group who eventually learn more about themselves than their course work. Hiding within the halfhour sitcom format, community was always an exercise in popculture metareferences. This is my favorite comedy show since arrested development. For a few paintballs more eric hochberger at may, 2011 10. A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body. Why the best pop culture references community can make are. They would have comic adventures on campus that sometimes included paintball, animated episodes and.
Hit enter to expand a main menu option health, benefits, etc. The 20 best community episodes, ranked by gregory lawrence april 1, 2020. Vimeo, i directed this episode, please do not delete. Dan harmons community does many things well, but one of the best things it does is pop culture references. Community s02 ep23 a fistful of paintballs 1 hd stream watch community s02 ep23 a fistful of paintballs 1 online watch community s02 ep23 a fistful of paintballs 1 online stream. The episode originally aired on may 12, 2011 on nbc. The 15 best episodes of community that make you feel like a. For a few paintballs more is the 24th episode and part two of the twopart finale of the second season of community. Apr 01, 2018 from the christmas episode on, community picks up momentum and begins to consistently knock it out the park. When the dean dangles priority registration as a prize for paintball. The show, ostensibly a sitcom set at greendale community college in colorado, is a little reminiscent of simon pegg and jessica hynes spaced, wherein the characters social and domestic situations are exaggerated in relation to the culture in which they were brought up. The episode included homages to tons of action movies. The season features the return of series creator dan harmon as showrunner, as well as the exit of cast members donald. It was an episode of a sitcom very unlike any other sitcom episode that had ever been made, more like an animated series than the other comedies it shared a network with.
Greendales annual paintball competition begins as a mysterious new player debuts. Unlike the previous paintball episode, this one starts after the game began several hours earlier. The paintball this is my favorite comedy show since arrested development. The fifth season of the television comedy series community premiered on january 2, 2014, and concluded on april 17, 2014.
Advanced dungeons and dragons season 2, episode 14. Greendale community college is transformed into an apocalyptic war zone when the dean promises the winner of a paintball competition priority registration, and it could fan the flames of sexual tension between jeff and britta. Fan made trailersummary of the three paintball episodes from seasons 1 and 2 of community that i made. The first episode referenced classic clint eastwood westerns, while the second was a star wars themed episode. This paintball gun was sported by community character senor chang, who set out to stop the main characters from winning. Series 1 episode 1 when the legitimacy of his college degree is challenged, lawyer jeff winger must return to school where he finds himself leading a misfit coalition of fellow community college. All rights belong to sony, community, nbc universal, dan harmon and yahoo. Like troy and abeds spanish rap to close out the second episode spanish 101 or vaughns song, gettin rid of britta home economics, or abed dressed up as batman.
In a spaghetti western parody, pierce tries to get revenge on the rest of the study group during this years paintball tournament. The paintballer with no name sawyer stops by to do some multicolored damage in another doozy of a paintball episode. Community cast reuniting for covid19 benefit live read. A prize is given to the winner of the contest which normally has great value to the students with the exception of the time when the prize was simply tickets to see a musical. Is there a list of all the tvmovie references by episode. And the viewers loved the paintball assassin concept so much, that it came back in season two and also in season six. Community season 2 episode 23 a fist full of paintballs part 1 s2 e23 community a fist full of paintballs. Modern warfare is the 23rd episode of the first season of community and originally premiered on may 6, 2010 on nbc. Oct 14, 2010 community creator dan harmon knows that modern warfare, season 1s actionmoviespoofing paintball episode set a new standard for the show, and hes not daunted by trying to top it. It sounds strange to say it, but i couldnt believe how much i was looking forward to this. If there is a seventh season, hopefully, there will be another paintball episode, because theyre pretty much the best. The paintball game first appeared in the season one episode modern warfare and made subsequent appearances in the season two episodes a fistful of.
Members of the study group discuss the sexual tension between britta and jeff. I just would like to know if we can use them as shown on the serie. Hi im a south korean guy and my english is not that fluent, sorry for that who just discharged from military service. Theres some episodes where its obvious which shows or movies their paying homage to, or making fun of. The paintball game first appeared in the season one episode modern warfare and made.
And as with the paintball episode, sometimes the reference is just the result of the fact that the camera is stylized. Ive watched a fistful of paintballs three times now, and i still dont really know what to say about it. At the center of the group is jeff winger joel mchale, the soup, a fasttalkin lawyer whose degree has been revoked. The episode is a continuation of a fistful of paintballs, and picks up from the middle of the paintball game that commenced in part one. In the eleventh episode of communitys sixth and final season on yahoo. Community a fistful of paintballs tv episode 2011 imdb. Search, discover and share your favorite community paintball gifs. The only negative thing ill say about this episode is. Community season 2 episode 23 a fist full of paintballs part 1 s2 e23 community.
The best paintball based satireparodypastiche of post apocalyptic and heroic bloodshed action movies since spaced. The campus turns into a war zone and friendships are tested when an early regist. What movies are referenced in communitys modern warfare. In fact, since writing this sentence, ive watched it a fourth. Disco stus chant of come out to playyay is a reference to the final scene from the warriors, when luther taunts the.
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