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Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:37 am to CovingtonTigre
quote:Community
best bottle episode ever.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:41 am to WG_Dawg
I think you missed his joke.
The episode is about bottles...
The episode is about bottles...
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:45 am to Fun Bunch
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I think you missed his joke.
The episode is about bottles...
oh holy shite
damn i need more coffee
Posted on 9/2/22 at 8:58 am to SOLA
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hat does this mean?
It means that communitys’ bottle episode was hilarious but started a trend where the “big joke” was acknowledging the bottle episode e.g. the Teen Titans Go episode someone referenced.
Modern family made a funny bottle episode that was clever without acknowledging the trope & updated by using online chat sessions with the entire cast just in front of green screens.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 9:29 am to CovingtonTigre
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Modern Family did the best bottle episode ever.
Sorry, but that title belongs to Community's bottle episode, "Cooperative Calligraphy"
Posted on 9/2/22 at 10:07 am to Ace Midnight
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BB's "The Fly" was almost an inversion - taking the bottle episode to the absolute extreme. Something like Mad Men's "The Suitcase", The Soprano's "Pine Barrens" or Seinfeld's "The Chinese Restaurant" are great examples of bottle episodes of top tier shows.
All significantly better than this Modern Family episode. Terrible take from the OP
Posted on 9/2/22 at 10:42 am to CovingtonTigre
I always appreciated community's but either the parking garage or chinese restaurant from seinfeld are the clear winners
This post was edited on 9/2/22 at 10:43 am
Posted on 9/2/22 at 1:36 pm to CovingtonTigre
It was clever and expertly executed, but it wasn’t all that funny or re-watchable. Still, I was impressed with it.
And Phil is my 2nd favorite sitcom character of all-time behind Jack Tripper. I’d have Alex P. Keaton up there at the top, but Family Ties did a lot of drama as did a lot of the mid-80s family sitcoms, so I’d probably have him in a different category.
Cam, George Costanza, and whatever Bryan Cranston’s character’s name on Malcom in the Middle would be up there too as far as just making me laugh. That episode where he power walks is absolutely hilarious. Probably wouldn’t have been a Phil without that character.
ETA—“Fly” is maybe the most underrated episode in tv history. What Rían Johnson did with what he had to work with was truly remarkable. And we learned a ton about Walter White’s character that we may not have in a typical episode. He was still hanging on to whatever humanity he had left and focusing on that fly was his way of trying to suppress the guilt/regret he had buried by not allowing himself to think about it stuck down there with nothing else to do but. I didn’t watch BB weekly like I did BCS, so I can understand why it might have been a disappointment to those that did. But it was a great episode in the flow of the season.
And Phil is my 2nd favorite sitcom character of all-time behind Jack Tripper. I’d have Alex P. Keaton up there at the top, but Family Ties did a lot of drama as did a lot of the mid-80s family sitcoms, so I’d probably have him in a different category.
Cam, George Costanza, and whatever Bryan Cranston’s character’s name on Malcom in the Middle would be up there too as far as just making me laugh. That episode where he power walks is absolutely hilarious. Probably wouldn’t have been a Phil without that character.
ETA—“Fly” is maybe the most underrated episode in tv history. What Rían Johnson did with what he had to work with was truly remarkable. And we learned a ton about Walter White’s character that we may not have in a typical episode. He was still hanging on to whatever humanity he had left and focusing on that fly was his way of trying to suppress the guilt/regret he had buried by not allowing himself to think about it stuck down there with nothing else to do but. I didn’t watch BB weekly like I did BCS, so I can understand why it might have been a disappointment to those that did. But it was a great episode in the flow of the season.
This post was edited on 9/2/22 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 9/2/22 at 2:12 pm to Hot Carl
If an animated show can count, Sealab 2021 had a good one with "Blackout". Just the exterior shot of the lab with just the voice actors reading their lines until the last line. Has to be the cheapest episode ever written.
Posted on 9/2/22 at 5:43 pm to Hot Carl
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ETA—“Fly” is maybe the most underrated episode in tv history.
You’ll get downvotes but I agree. It’s extremely introspective of Walt at a critical time. But BB was so fast paced and intense at that point that the sudden pause seemed to throw the entire audience for a loop as if the show hit the brakes and most of the audience had whiplash from the sudden stop
Posted on 9/2/22 at 6:15 pm to CovingtonTigre
Community had 2 good ones
Posted on 9/3/22 at 6:40 am to CovingtonTigre
I guess the Golden Girls did this a lot with their cheesecake and flashbacks episodes. They had to have at least one of those every season. One time they switched it up and had flashbacks while they were at a shelter waiting out a hurricane.
I was unfamiliar with this concept. Thanks for enlightening me.
ETA: and I love Modern Family. I still say “what’s the plan Phil?” when something’s happening that we need to address quickly.
I was unfamiliar with this concept. Thanks for enlightening me.
ETA: and I love Modern Family. I still say “what’s the plan Phil?” when something’s happening that we need to address quickly.
This post was edited on 9/3/22 at 6:44 am
Posted on 9/3/22 at 10:12 pm to Ace Midnight
This is the first I’m learning of “bottle episodes”. Would “Dinner Party” episode of The Office be considered a bottle episode?
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