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"Community" Pays Tribute to Classic Comedies in EW Photoshoot

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (32)



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And of course Alison Brie is Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (above). Below are the tributes to Breakfast Club and Animal House, which are included in EW’s upcoming comedy issue (as well as one for Porky’s).

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(Source: EW)

This one is not in EW, but I’m going to pretend that it’s an homage to Flashdance.

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Comments

Alright. Allie Brie's cute, but she's kinda coming off as biddy-desperate.

I think I'm starting to like Britta more than Annie purely based on their respective off screen personae.

Posted by: thesmedt at October 31, 2011 4:54 PM

The Molly Ringwald is PERFECTION!

Posted by: shawnp at October 31, 2011 4:57 PM

Regarding Allison Brie -- Hey, if you've got it and you like that you've got it, no harm in showing off. Hell, I would.

Posted by: Sara H at October 31, 2011 5:05 PM

I was thinking the exact same thing, thesmedt.

Posted by: jamiepants at October 31, 2011 5:05 PM

I dunno shawnp, I'm diggin' the Allie Sheedy...

Posted by: Patty O'Green at October 31, 2011 5:22 PM

I'm starting to get the desperate vibe a little bit too. Yes dear, we know you have a lovely body, you don't need to shove it in our faces every 30 seconds.

Posted by: Anne At Large at October 31, 2011 6:11 PM

To Allie Brie:

Don't listen to the haters. You can shove your body in my face at any and all times.

Posted by: Paultera at October 31, 2011 6:22 PM

Well, I don't think she chose to be photographed that way, the art director did.. If she walked like that on the street it might be considered desperate. I'm okay with whatever she wears, calling people desperate sounds a bit like slut-shaming to me.

Posted by: Nat at October 31, 2011 6:56 PM

Hmm. How about "desperate for publicity" then. I think she's got some control over how she gets photographed.

Posted by: Anne At Large at October 31, 2011 7:23 PM

From a purely male point of view, I've got no problem with it. From a comedy point of view, I think Abed as Phoebe would have been funnier. The Breakfast Club shot is awesome.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at October 31, 2011 7:31 PM

I'm reserving judgment til the issue comes out but in Annie's Boobs defense, her hair is already the right color?

Plus, after that spanking/O-faced spread she did with Brit, I don't see how this can get any "worse."

I can still stomach her coz unlike Michelle she has the body and unlike Olivia she's actually an actor and not a fame skank.

but like everyone else, I'm starting to see how much hotter Britta is. And i'm pretty sure it's because Britta is not even trying to be hot while Annie is being forced to wear those short dresses and run/jump around a lot.

Posted by: haplo at October 31, 2011 7:40 PM

Maybe Allison Brie is going a little heavy on the self-promotion, but at least she's got some worthwhile things to promote. She IS legitimately talented and seems to be choosing good projects so far.

If her body causes people to watch good TV for a change, shouldn't we be thanking her?

Posted by: Bert at October 31, 2011 7:42 PM

I have yet to watch Community(shut up), but about the only thing I see on the web is people showing her body off, or some other sex related type of imagery. She may not be trying hard, but somebody is. So far from what I have seen of her in Mad Men she comes across as rather unremarkable.

Posted by: Matt at October 31, 2011 7:47 PM

I just think a tiny portion of the male demographic might be over exaggerating her talents just cause she likes to get naked.

I mean, I like to get naked too, but that doesn't make me funnier than Donald Glover.

Posted by: thesmedt at October 31, 2011 8:59 PM

Annie has gotten more annoying and less funny this season, and has had too many humorless stretches of romance with Jeff, but in the first two seasons at least, I think Annie is one of the funniest characters and you can't deny that Brie is a remarkable comedienne. She's certainly talented enough to have a productive career in film, if she gets the chance.

And I don't know what everyone is complaining about - this is just the second racy pictorial she's appeared in recently - nothing compared to most starlets. Is the idea that it seems like she's craving publicity because Community doesn't have a very big viewership, and that's somehow... bad? If exploiting Brie's sexuality means more viewers for Community, we should all be vehemently for it. If she starts doing solo shoots for Maxim and FHM and that kind of thing, then we might could be worried (though still very, very grateful), but it's clear that this and the Jacobs/Brie shoot are just somewhat lascivious ads for Community.

And, come on, it's Alison Brie. Comparing her to an attention whore like Olivia Munn is ludicrous, and she's nowhere near that level of overexposure.

Posted by: The Dead Burger at October 31, 2011 9:22 PM

haplo, I was actually thinking the same thing about Gillian/Alison after I saw last week's Community. Gillian is the more conventionally pretty actress but plays a pretty "ugly" character. Also I don't get this fascination with Annie's boobs. They are nice, but nothing spectacular. However my favorite person in the photoshoot is Chang as Ally Sheedy.

Posted by: Genesee at October 31, 2011 9:22 PM

TDB, it might just be that these are the pictures we remember because we see them repeatedly on this fine website. With a tragically lower level of shirtless Joel McHale.

However, in the Games section of the Community website we find Find Annie's Boobs Annie's Boobs Trivia and Who's Cuter Than Annie's Boobs? So maybe it's not just Pajiba.

Posted by: Anne At Large at October 31, 2011 9:33 PM

Well, Annie's Boobs is a monkey so nothig is cuter than Annie's Boobs.

Posted by: Nat at October 31, 2011 10:09 PM

Will Britta or Annie be this generations Ginger or Mary Anne?

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Posted by: Dancy at October 31, 2011 11:55 PM

Um, as far as the whole Allison Brie/Annie thing, I'm not with any of these people. She's both attractive and talented, and significantly more funny every week than Britta (though I enjoy them both).

So, basically, you're all insane.

Posted by: ChristianH at October 31, 2011 11:58 PM

Also, does no one remember Gillian Jacobs getting naked as a stripper in Choke? Suddenly doing spreads in swimsuits is more sexually suggested than actually taking off your clothes and showing your breasts on camera.

Posted by: ChristianH at November 1, 2011 12:01 AM

If Alison wasn't talent and showing off that talent on a regular basis I would consider agreeing with those who don't quite like the way she is publicized. But even if she wasn't I wouldn't complain too much. She's just so sexy. It would be hard not to embrace that and take advantage of it.

Posted by: Dave at November 1, 2011 12:44 AM

Wow, the sexism in this place is baffling. She didn't choose to be photographed in a bikini. Also, to all the people who slut shame and put Gillian on a pedestal because she would "never do something like that"- she does even more half-naked, provocative shoots, it's just that she's not nearly as famous as Brie and you've probably never seen them.

Posted by: Riley at November 1, 2011 4:29 AM

Well, I'd say Allison has made it. She has her own clutch of haters now.

Community is constantly on the bubble, it needs all the exposure it can get.

Posted by: TylerDFC at November 1, 2011 9:17 AM

Hmm I feel like when Community started, Brita was the "hot" girl, the whole reason for Jeff to stay at Greendale and get involved with the study group. But as the show has progressed it seems like Ms. Brie rules so hard she's eclipsed the attractions of the less subtle and more conventionally pretty blonde, and I feel like that's been pretty great for the show and for Ms. Brie. I see absolutely nothing wrong with a couple of humorously sexualized photographs of her and I'm really dissapointed in you right now for trying to make the increased success and exposure this cute, cool chick into something nefarious. Guys, we don't have so many talented, beautiful, funny women around that we can afford to treat them like this. Stop being assholes please.

Posted by: Unemployed at November 1, 2011 9:37 AM

I'm with Riley. It's worth noting that even a half-hearted google search can get you Jillian topless in about 5 seconds. Oddly, of the seemingly billions of photos of Alison Brie, she hasn't done any partial nudity (that I can find, anyway.) Cleavage-y photos, yes, but again nothing that puts her in the Olivia Munn category.

Posted by: Markus at November 1, 2011 10:04 AM

I should clarify:

I don't really care who shows their body or what. I'm not really into censorship. I think they're both beautiful gals who deserve to be proud of their talent/beauty/whatever.

But, christ, all these photoshoots are made to sell Community to the wider world. and I'd prefer it for once if an ad for community said something about its wit and charm rather than "Hey, look! Tits!"

Posted by: thesmedt at November 1, 2011 10:32 AM

@ Riley: She didn't choose to be photographed in the bikini? Did she lose free will?

@ Unemployed: "more conventionally pretty blonde"? Is there somewhere in America where attractive, brown-haired white women are down-trodden?

@ thesmedt: I agree. I think I read somewhere the producers of the show stated they did not want to to "sex-up" Annie to much (I'm paraphrasing), so it seems weird that they are using Allison Brie's sexuality to sell the show. It is a charming little show and needs to do more to showcase that. How you would display charm in a still photograph is a little beyond me, though.

Posted by: J. R. Paperstacks at November 1, 2011 11:12 AM

I've been on Team Brie since Community started, but Gillian came close to winning me over when she tweeted that she improvised the "Me So Hungee" dance.

Tell me this isn't fucking adorable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSX4TNdWy58

Posted by: Barry at November 1, 2011 11:51 AM

I think its the producers choice to not sex up Annie that is leading to the sex up of Alison.

Thou... I was surprised after Google searching both Alison and Gillian that Alison, BY FAR, has way more Maxim type photos kicking around.

Posted by: layla at November 1, 2011 1:36 PM

On the flip side... I did not like the "Me So Hungy" dance at all. It felt forced and lame and with too much try.

Posted by: layla at November 1, 2011 1:38 PM