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9 Days Remain Until "Community" Leaves Us: The Countdown Continues with the "Beetlejuice" Easter Egg

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (25)

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I’m going to keep the heat on the “Community” countdown in the hopes that a steady wave of glee mixed with anguish will convince NBC to murder Whitney Cummings and put “Community” back on in its place. If possible, I’m going to run one “Community”-related post each day until December 8th when the beloved Dan Harmon show leaves the air with no scheduled return, its future in doubt. Rumor has it, however, if you whisper “Community, Community, Community” three times, a live-production of the show will show up at your doorstep.

As for today’s clip: It’s a week old, but if you thought “Community” was brilliant before, wait until you see this glorious Easter Egg three-years in the making. As Dan Harmon tweeted, “The Easter egg that took three years to hide. Our show is TOTALLY ACCESSIBLE.”

Indeed.

It’s a doozy, too. I watched it three times before I caught the payoff.

If you missed it, after the third “Beetlejuice,” look through the window behind Annie. Note, too, that each utterance of the word came from a different season.

And that, folks, is the genius of “Community.”

(Via Topless Robot with a Cowboy Hat Tip to JustBill)









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Comments

The only way that Easter Egg would be better is if that were actually Michael Keaton in the outfit.

Posted by: Fribbley at November 29, 2011 9:32 AM

I love this show more than my firstborn.

Posted by: Janey at November 29, 2011 9:35 AM

When I watched the episode originally, I saw Beetlejuice-dude walk by the window after Annie said it, but hadn't realized that was the third time it had been said. Ah. Mazing.

If I had a firstborn, I'd love this show more than it.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at November 29, 2011 9:47 AM

I too would love this show more than my hypothetical firstborn.

As it is, I love it more than Janey's firstborn.

No offense, Janey. I just don't know him/her that well.

Posted by: zeke the pig at November 29, 2011 9:55 AM

And yet, two broke girls with copious jokes about rape and cheap stereotypes is CBS' new hit. I blame Janey's unloved firstborn.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at November 29, 2011 9:58 AM

Firstborns are notoriously unlovable. Just ask mine, or Janey's.

Posted by: admin at November 29, 2011 10:08 AM

Same here, AvB. I caught the joke initially but I had no idea of the hidden meaning. Radass.

Also, I know Dan Harmon is desperately trying to save Jeff's dad for when he might, possibly get Bill Murray. But I'd settle for Michael Keaton in the role. Wait, no, "settle" isn't the right word... I'd love if Keaton showed up as Jeff's dad some time down the road.

Posted by: RobP at November 29, 2011 10:33 AM

RobP, I feel like if that were to happen he'd have to show up in the same shirt as Jeff so either he or Abed can work "Hey, we shop at the same store" into it. It'd be kind of like when they had Malcolm-Jamal Warner in that sweater and he said "My dad gave it to me."

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at November 29, 2011 10:42 AM

But RobP...would you love it more than Janey's firstborn?

Posted by: PissBoy at November 29, 2011 10:44 AM

Oh, that's a given.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at November 29, 2011 10:47 AM

You know Janey, your kid is coming in a clkose second place to Community...which isn't necesarily a bad showing. It'll teach the kid a little fucking humility, which ALL kids today need to learn in some way. So yay for that.

Posted by: PissBoy at November 29, 2011 10:55 AM

Chirst I can't spell.

FML.

Posted by: PissBoy at November 29, 2011 10:55 AM

GOD DAMMIT!!!!!!!

Posted by: PissBoy at November 29, 2011 10:56 AM

I found the Nielsen ratings for Nov. 7 and noted that the top-rated show that isn't football is "NCIS," watched by 20.378 million people.

That seems like a lot until you consider there are 300+ million Americans. So a good 280 million of them didn't watch the highest-rated scripted show on TV.

I think that means it's safe to say there's no such thing as a "beloved" show on TV, anywhere, and certainly not one that draws, what, 5 million a week?

Posted by: , at November 29, 2011 10:58 AM

I find it strangely fitting that one of the primary wells 2 Broke Girls mines for "comedy" is literal horse shit.

Watching that show is like being slapped in the face with a limp dick filled with terrible jokes.

Posted by: Bert at November 29, 2011 11:42 AM

Why does everything I love get cancelled or defenestrated?

Fucking Robocop.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at November 29, 2011 12:59 PM

There are very few things that make me happier than Beetlejuice. I thank you Dan Harmon.

Posted by: valerie at November 29, 2011 1:15 PM

RobP,

I imagine Michael was probably available, Winona too. Somehow I think the dad from Beetlejuice might have trouble making it.

Posted by: Mr. Shush at November 29, 2011 1:56 PM

Best easter egg I've ever seen.
I shall look forward to your Community posts each day while simultaneously dreading the final countdown. *cue music*

Posted by: gee. ay. at November 29, 2011 2:35 PM

Dawned!!!

Fucking--Janey, we, we talked about this! I said, 'Janey, when your baby busts the Duggar girls out of TLC, make sure that it remembers to leave the bronzed booties and stem cells in gaffa aspic at home, they won't understand'.

And you reported, 'look, 'Jo', if you have any damn mind, you would've picked Stumpy Pepys over Jo 'Mama' Besser!'

Well, that couldn't stand.

'Fuck your science mind!- else I shall reveal the clogging force supreme, the saltpeter, the lowered credit rating naptha of my violence, Mamon, for surely you know that those bitter, then candied herbs of our degredation are the only ratings in our own calloused and talcum powedered talons! Tortures of the damned.'

That was probably me who said that thing.

Words followed, and though the leeks were a little overcooked, there was reconciliation, but my warnings remained.

Now I'm hearing that some baby foiled the plan to restore Community to its full vitality with that umbilical breath of life because some double banged dames of the prophecied Final Net sect of the Crypto Nymphos (they had you fooled, but your gullability has jeopardized the integrity of internal affairs too many times, I now know) went wicker manned the stem cells. What a boon for civilization! We're blossoming like Tuscany under the Medicis, yes, we most assuredly luxuriate in the flowering, the sagging fecundity burbling in the cherry ambered, urban spiced, paprika syllabubed and wine-sopped porridges to come. Great baby.

So, what is your AWOL and delinquent bundle going to do for my country, now? Does it even know poutine-flavoured butter tart is? I live in Canada, I can't control this ratings...Madoff--um, shit. NBC doesn't listen to my tribe, you know...the idicted, right? Corruption of minors, corruption of minors, I keep saying, I keep saying, 'I can't cross the boarder because of my corruption of minors conviction.' I guess I should've put my neck out on this line a little more, because now we now what 'conviction' means to your baby. Just put it on longboat and immolate it, because our hope is dead, now! Why is your baby always killing the hope? It doesn't believe in organized hopefullness? What kind of neo-Byronic, existential flim-flam is that?

Am I going to hear that he sold us out to the Xenuphobic subsidiary of the Little Golden franchise? Hubbard Hears A Who? To Supress A Mockingbird? Gone With The Audit? 120 E-Meters of Sodom--is that even a sentence? Fantasic Mister Thetan? Under The Volcano? The Last Miscavige? The Indianetic In The Cupboard?

This is the end. Your baby has failed us. In time, do not reproach it for the dearth-drunk emptiness that it has housed upon us in its misrecognizing a scarred, frozen and windchapped tundra for the tranquil still of a petaled vista with the balmied breezes endeavouring no caprice but to beacon an errant blossom in its missive: aloft, and stay--but to yield only at that time when your presence meets mine and the communion that follows resets the very axis of Heaven and it spins by no design but ours!!!!! We are the conductors, we are the metronomes of the universe, follow no beat but OURS!!! But not soon.Babies need to learn patience, I'm 27 and I still don't know how drive a car...or a bicycle.

*sniff*

There will be no care package.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at November 29, 2011 2:49 PM

michael keaton will look like an imp next to Winger. Bill Murray FTW. Did those two (Chevy) have a rivalry back in the day?

Posted by: haplo at November 29, 2011 2:51 PM

I think Jo 'Mama" has been reading John Cusack's tweets again.

Posted by: Bert at November 29, 2011 4:10 PM

Nah, I'm not on the TwitFace, I'm just under the weather--and there's freezing rain here, so says something. I don't follow tweets, but based on Hangdog Rain-Sad's extracurricular reputation alone...and considering the long friendship with Pivert...bleh, I gather? Don't blame me, I rigged those elections in Joan's favour, it's just that I'm powerfully bad at garnering the favour Thin Blue Line sorts. Well, it's just not Blackadder, is it?

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at November 29, 2011 7:12 PM

Jo 'Mama'! It's been a long time! Welcome back! Where you been? Missed you, darlin'! Still don't understand a fucking thing you've ever written, Adventurewoman!

Posted by: , at November 30, 2011 1:22 AM

What , said.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at November 30, 2011 9:13 AM