COMMUNITY 2x14 Reaction *ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS*

[@TheMovieJourney]

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[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Not just good, not just great, it's an episode of Peak TV. I sincerely question the sanity of streaming executives who insist on removing it.

[@tempsitch5632]

There’s no question. They’re insane.

[@wvu05]

Troy taking notes will never not be funny.

[@rishabhpb]

It's not a banned episode, only a couple of streaming services took it down but nobody asked them to. There was no campaign, not even on twitter, to have it removed.

[@theengine]

Yes. It's literally streaming on Peacock right now

[@jawbone78]

As is the case with virtually all "banned" media that people who cry about "cancel culture" bitch about, if you scratch the surface of their claims even a tiny bit they fall completely apart.

[@Ilix42]

They should have seen Married With Children.

[@Daniel-kp9fb]

@@jawbone78 but you people literally banned this episode for a "black face", that is a FACT, and nobody is crying LMAO

[@bloatus7611]

@@Daniel-kp9fb Again, as the first comment states, that is not what happened. Streaming services did a bunch of things like this in a misguided attempt to seem as if they were doing something during the summer protests of 2020. No one asked them to do this.

[@tempsitch5632]

“Guys, we gotta do something about these gnomes !”

[@ZacCostilla]

One of the best in the whole series!

[@greendale634]

One of the classic episodes. It deals with darker themes, so is not as light and happy as many sitcom episodes, but it has good character development.

[@tempsitch5632]

“Darker themes” ? You work at Netflix or Hulu ?

[@greendale634]

@@tempsitch5632 No :) I mean what Neil was contemplating.

[@Daniel-kp9fb]

@@greendale634 ahh yes, another banned word in the USA... are you allowed to say anything anymore?

[@tayzk5929]

Not if someone feels bad

[@JKUTWatcher]

One of the best episodes and also shows the importance of helping out those in quiet despair.

[@eolsunder]

2nd best episode of the series. And one of Chevy's great ones. Love to rewatch this all the time.

[@lulluf6392]

This is my favorite Community episode! It is a perfect microcosm of the series and made dnd seem really enterraining.

[@bland3145]

My first ever Community episode, never heard of it before and this episode made me interested in writing television

[@Ilix42]

The D&D movie is a ton of fun, and you really don’t need to have played at all to enjoy it.

[@RobertJW]

It's tiiiime for one of the best episodes of Community!

[@AlmostParadise_RK]

Best chemistry between a cast ever.

[@angelagraves865]

I love everything about this episode, except that Netflix and Hulu preemtively removed it from their streaming service. Chang's costume was amazing. Also, with the right group, D&D is an absolute blast to play. I have many fun memories of it.

[@georgeprchal3924]

My name was Kyle... Good Terminator reference.

[@sabin97]

this is my favourite community episode. as an avid dnd player i love the parody of dnd they play here.

[@aar1551patd5115fob]

Probably the best episode of all time.

[@parsanajjari7940]

One of my favourite episodes , such a well written episode

[@Awhmanitsdanttv]

I mean on the one hand. The color of Chang’s skin is “black” but that doesn’t mean he’s doing black face. So it is kinda racist in that of itself but equating dark skinned to black. Because you’re calling all dark elves black people.. see the weirdness to that

[@ramuki9427]

While I do not think that this episode's use of black face warrants removing it from streaming platform, Chang's makeup is undoubtedly remenicent of black face in the way it was portrayed in Minstrel Shows waaay back in the late 19th century. Chang's makeup ofc only consists of the overexaggerated black skin, while missing some of the other "markers of blackness" these freaks used back then (overemphasized big lips for example), but it still is eerily similar. Black face is, of course, severly racist, but I do believe that there are some accaptable uses of it - In Tropic Thunder for example, one character is in black face to make a point about racist Hollywood executives casting a white guy as a black character to enhance the "star power" of the in universe movie they are shooting. For me, it comes down to intention: Is the joke on black people (in which case it is in my opinion most likely racist and unacceptable), or is the joke targeted at something or someone else. The Chang example I think falls into the latter, because it is about Chang's ignorance in regards to the perceivable issue with his cosplay and not to racially attack black people in general.

[@Awhmanitsdanttv]

@@ramuki9427 black face was only the fact. Using context clues of his neck exposed top chest and hands you can surmise that he painted his body for the role. That’s cosplaying not black face

[@ramuki9427]

@@Awhmanitsdanttv That is not entirely true, there are examples of black face covering more than just the face. Makeup that completely covers even the necks of the performers has been documented in photographs. I fell like the agrument about whether or not this constitutes black face is futile to begin with. The criticism has evidently been made by ppl before that perceived it as such, which is why streaming services decided to take it down. Hell, even the characters themselves comment on how similar it looks to black face (both Jeff and Shirley outright point out the "walking hate crime"). The joke only works because common sense immediatley makes the connection, even if Chang in his ignorance did not intend it to be black face. My point is that while we should be critical of black face, this episode is probably one acceptable example of how you can get away with it.

[@TheBloobster]

@@ramuki9427 Is blackface not, in itself, the concept of someone other than black pretending to be a black person by painting their face black? If so, there was no attempt by Chang to pass himself off as a black person, and thus was just painting his body a darker color. Unless a dark elf was offended by this cosplay, I really dont think it has anything in common with what people consider to be blackface.

[@ramuki9427]

@@TheBloobster Yeah, I agree with that sentiment at the very least, but the point remains that Harmon (or the writers) very deliberately played with the concept of black face when they wrote this joke. I think censoring this episode by removing it entirely was unjustified, but at the same time I can see why people might get offended by this joke, even if the intend was never to reproduce actual black face.

[@nancyscogin7549]

I always feel good after watching y'all.😄

[@cheekyboomboom8973]

Bullying aside, Pierce's fat-joke about stretching the chair had me in stitches. I got some fat jokes thrown my way when I was younger, I'd have appreciated that one lol

[@ForsbergGirl21]

Definitely one of the most iconic episodes. Danny Pudi absolutely stole the show, right from when he starts with the gnome voice arglegarble thing--just fucking KILLS me every time I see it! It's so unexpected and hilarious. Again, it's one of those moments that's SO GOOD because the actor just full on COMMITS and starts chewing the scenery like he's Joan Crawford reincarnated. It's so over-the-top that it's actually perfect, and he keeps that energy the entire time. Amazing. Legend. No notes. In addition, this is Chevy Chase the way I liked him in this show--he's a great villain. Sometimes it felt like they didn't know what to do with him, but putting him at odds against the group made it feel like there were actual stakes and tension.

[@craigmerryfull7704]

a dark elf aint exactly black face

[@crapstirrer]

Changface

[@BK-500]

IT'S TIME for some dungeons and some dragons! What a great episode, one of my favourites. Is on my top 5, but my favourite of the season, is yet to come. Love your reactions guys, see you on the next one!

[@ZacCostilla]

By this point in the show’s history, Chevy Chase was becoming more and more hostile to work with, and the writers actually started including some of the ridiculous things he was saying in their meetings into the actual script. The line “… and how you look at me, like I can’t get erections anymore” was a classic example of that. And even though you cut part of it out, the “I don’t like being excluded, Jeff. Do you? … YES!!!” Is classic winger. It perfectly fits his character, like when he says the line “I’m an EXCEPTIONAL narcissist”.

[@Daniel-kp9fb]

awwwww are you going to cry?

[@kungfubrandon6886]

looks like the director wanted everyone to hate pierce

[@ZacCostilla]

@@kungfubrandon6886 that was Chevy’s doing. They wanted him to be the goofball, grandfatherly type, and his own personality leaking into the character drove the change into what he had become. This is one of his harsher episodes where he is full-on antagonist to everyone, but there are plenty more where he’s almost as bad.

[@kungfubrandon6886]

@@ZacCostilla seems like he let his dislike for chase caused him to make chase mean spirited

[@ZacCostilla]

@@kungfubrandon6886 that flies in the face of the comments made by nearly everyone who was on set with him during that time, that has spoken out in the subject.

[@silvasurfa7962]

The best episode of the series imo. We'll never see anything like this on network television again.

[@theJ3ZA]

I was about to back to work, but I can wait 12:24 before I start...

[@notoriouslybratty]

The creator of the series is a huge D&D nerd. When he got booted from the show, he travelled around a lot doing “stand-up/drunk rants?” with a dungeon master. There is a documentary about it, strangely enough.

[@jameshenner5831]

It seems like they used a classic adventure (The Caverns of Draconis) from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1st edition, 1977-1989)

[@tempsitch5632]

@0:36 Actually when it comes to censorship I wish I could say Aus has it’s head on straight but they have the craziest censorship of video games in the world.

[@RobertJW]

Australia's age ratings for videogames now include an R 18+ rating, though.

[@Daniel-kp9fb]

Australia is pretty much Nazi Germany at this point as it comes to censorship and basic human freedoms

[@tempsitch5632]

@@RobertJW ……though, it’s still the stupidest thing in the world. One of the most modern societies with the stupidest anything is sad. Also needs to get ahold of it’s beer export laws.

[@ginao6810]

The kicker - Chang’s paint isn’t even black - it’s fricken navy blue! Which was a deliberate choice by the creators as it showed Chang to be in poor taste without denigrating an actual race of human beings. The only one denigrated is Chang, as he is in every episode. Such bullshit to remove a truely brilliant episode of television for what amounts to navy blue cosplay.

[@obione9650]

You guys have to react to THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA (it's an anima D&D) it's so funny/great/blood soaked 2 seasons so far season 3 release at the end of the year sending rum hams🎉

[@jasonbrown3556]

This isn't banned on streaming in the US.

[@otter011]

Hulu and Netflix took it down, did they put it back up again?

[@theengine]

​@@otter011it's streaming on peacock right now

[@anylove370]

It's literally not a banned episode though. Like I feel pretty strongly about it, like for iasip the gang decided themselves to remove the episodes because they acknowledged that what they did was straight up blackface and they didn't want to deal with the backlash. No one forced them to. For community there was no racism at all, no call to remove the episode from platforms, and despite Shirley's quip which is clearly a joke, no one would call this blackface

[@eolsunder]

Also you have to figure that Pierce was playing such a bad guy because he was just roleplaying his character, the evil antagonist of the game. In the backstory Pierce is an expert D&D player, having played for years and actually knew the creator of the game. At the end Neil recognized this and that's why he said it was the best game he ever played. The writer of the show stated he was disappointed in not having an ending where Neil and Pierce continued to play together.