"Community" Season 3 Promo Is Good, Man, John Goodman. But Is He Really The Show's Strongest Selling Point?

"Community" Season 3 Promo Is Good, Man, John Goodman. But Is He Really The Show's trongest Selling Point? (WARNING: There Be Man-Flesh Here; Lady-Flesh, Too.)

By Rob Payne | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (22)

For those who weren’t aware, situation comedy “Community” will have one of the most under appreciated actors — in terms of “official” awards and accolades — of the last few decades, John Goodman, in a large supporting role in its upcoming third season. For those who are excited about this news, this new promotional teaser released by the National Broadcasting Corporation for the said third season of said sitcom “Community” is fairly delightful, illustrating in a few seconds how Goodman’s Assistant Dean is one of the show’s newest sources of dramatic tension and comedic beats. (I will be interested in seeing how/if they do Michael K. Williams’, as the new Greendale biology teacher.) Fans of Jim Rash’s bizarrely sympathetic Dean Pelton should be also be sufficiently pleased, as this belies his new status as a series regular:

While I really like the above video, I wonder if maybe “Community” deprivation has simply left me starving, so any bit of sustenance from the show feels, well, filling. I can’t help but question why NBC doesn’t use more of their core attributes in the study group, and I mean just generally speaking, as the network does very little to promote it outside of web videos. And if they really want eyeballs on this amazing show, they ought to show off some of their more, ahem, gratuitous strengths.

Including but not limited to Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie…

…and Joel “Jeff Winger” McHale…

…and Childish Gambino himself; he is Donald Glover:

Sorry, ladies and some dudes, but I had to start with Ms. Brie and Ms. Jacobs, and I didn’t mean to cause any undue stress. I’m sure you understand. And if none of those are your cupp’a, then Ken Jeong is surely an itch that you (for reasons I care not to investigate) desperately need scratched:

“I think for TV you need naked bodies to be good looking.” Right on, Dr. Ken! Seriously, there’s too much hotness to be contained here, even sarcastically, and did I mention that “Community” is also one of the funniest damn shows currently on the air? The end credits sequence below is better than the entirety of any single episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” And if that doesn’t float your boat, two words (that are technically one word when combined together): Paintball.

Just watch “Community” when it returns to NBC Thursdays at 8pm EST on September 22. You could do a helluvalot worse, but you can’t do much better. This is not an advertisement, it’s a public service announcement.

Rob Payne also writes the indie comic book The Unstoppable Force, co-hosts the internet radio show We’re Not Fanboys, and tweets twitisms @RobOfWar on the Twitter machine.

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Less than a month away, but that's still too long.

Oh and nice job mixing it up by using a different shot from that shoot than normally appears 'round these parts.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at August 30, 2011 12:15 PM

Yay! Community! I love you so.

Also, I was hoping as I clicked on the "it's a public service announcement" link that it would be what it was.

Posted by: tamatha at August 30, 2011 12:17 PM

While I'm as excited as anyone for the return of Community, constantly using those photos as header pics makes it damn near impossible for me to check Pajiba while I'm at work. I need distractions, dammit!

Posted by: beckster at August 30, 2011 12:19 PM

The Dean grew a Walter White goatee! This is awesome to me.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at August 30, 2011 12:24 PM

This casting addition may only be rivaled by the adding of Devito to Philadelphia.

Posted by: admin at August 30, 2011 12:25 PM

Some of us are at work. Little warning next time.

(Fair enough! The header now has a disclaimer. Cheers, mates. -RobP)

Posted by: superasente at August 30, 2011 12:27 PM

I am affronted by the faux spanking naughty girl lingerie pictures every single time. I'm impressed by the longevity of my taking of offense. You'd think I'd be over it by now.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at August 30, 2011 12:56 PM

And yet not the shirtless, ball-hugging underwear wearing McHale. Strange.

Posted by: admin at August 30, 2011 1:38 PM

*HYPERVENTILATES. PASSES OUT. DIES*

*GHOST VOICE* yaaaaaaaaaaay cooommmmwhooooooooooounittyyy*

Posted by: Nadine at August 30, 2011 2:11 PM

COME ON! Is this header picture now a Pajiba running joke?

Posted by: Neil at August 30, 2011 2:16 PM

I'm sure I'm alone in this, but I find the GQ shoot with Gillian Jacobs and Alison Brie to be kind of, well, gross and insulting. Is that really the only way the GQ editors could think to photograph them? Is that really the only way the editors thought they could promote the show? By turning them into the overused "naughty sex kitten in a lesbian porno" stereotype? How is this photoshoot any less disgusting/disturbing than the one pervert Terry Richardson shot for Glee?

Yes, they are both beautiful women, but they are also talented comedic actresses (Brie is so much better on Community than on Mad Men) and ostensibly intelligent individuals. Why reduce them to this overwrought, hypersexualized caricature?

When it's silly reality show twits or "celebrities" more famous for their looks than their talent, I don't find these types of images so offensive. Image is really the main thing those young women are offering. But when it's a talented young woman that has more than T&A to offer, it's just insulting to put her on the same level as the more superficial "celebrities." Not to mention it shows a serious lack of creativity. "Hey, look, hot chicks! Let's do what we always do and make them take most of their clothes off and act like they totally want to fuck us! Yeah, dude!"

As I said, I'm sure I'm alone in this, and I'm sure people will tell me how stupid I am, but I still felt the need to put my thoughts out there. It probably has something to do with the drugs I'm taking after having my wisdom teeth extracted.

Posted by: GeekChic at August 30, 2011 3:43 PM

I agree with your main point that these women have a lot more to offer than just their looks, though I still do enjoy the pictures. I think the main difference between this and the Glee shoot is that the characters in Glee are in high school, even though the actors themselves are older. Then again, I didn't have any great complaints about the Glee shoot either.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at August 30, 2011 3:49 PM

much love to Community, but i am fucking sick of seeing those damned GQ photos posted every day on this site. it is high time they went and ate an entire tote bag of dicks.

i would apologize for my bitchiness but...i don't fucking want to.

Posted by: beet salad at August 30, 2011 3:49 PM

Love the Goodman. He is a top-notch comedic actor, or really, actor of any kind. But you look at that huge dude and think (if you don't know any better), he can only be funny if he's the big dumb guy, but you would be so very very wrong. He is the total package, thespian-wise.

Not that I don't also love the other "Community" people. They are all pretty damn funny. I can even tolerate Chevy Chase on that show, and he's never been one of my faves.

I'm also getting kinda sick of the chick photos. They don't offend me, they're just unnecessary at this point. Everybody's seen them, we get it, let's move on. Copy them to your hard drive for your spank bank and find something new for us all to look at.

Also, GeekChic clearly doesn't understand that faux porn pictures are what passes for feminist empowerment now. C'mon, get with the program, prude.

Posted by: Slash at August 30, 2011 4:41 PM

But I do appreciate the McHale pics. Why wasn't one of those the header? I thought the Pajiba readership was a taco fest?

I mean, if you're going to feature sexually exploitative photographs, at least try to appear evenhanded in your exploitation. Then it's OK. Everybody knows that.

Posted by: Slash at August 30, 2011 4:45 PM

I can't wait for the Roseanne and Big Lebowski tie-ins that Abed will do with Goodman in the lineup. I mean, he HAS to, right?

Posted by: Paultera at August 30, 2011 5:02 PM

i hope they don't underuse Ken Jeong again this season.

Please bring back Senor Chang in another form already!

Posted by: haplo at August 30, 2011 6:49 PM

Insulting? Whatever could you mean? Don't you know that the only women who matter are the women you want to fuck and the only women that anyone wants to fuck are skinny white women, so why wouldn't skinny white women get paid to take off their clothes, isn't that their job, fatty? Now, the subscribers of GQ have some very sophisticated whacking to do, so if you want someone to pay any positive attention previously unknown to you, your options are:

-sex change machine

If you can't find one:

-race change machine
-consult a hurricane

Still not a slender WASP in garters?:

-university
-fuck you

Stop making our baccarat ugly, someone's talking about Steve McQueen.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at August 30, 2011 7:39 PM

Just as I suspected: McHale has big feet... mmm.

Posted by: XiuFetish at August 30, 2011 9:43 PM

I could watch Alison Brie and Donald Glover read a Sarah Palin speech and be thoroughly entertained.

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