How (Not) To Revive A Show: Arrested Development vs. Community

The fact that Community was revived by yahoo sounds weirdly on brand for Greendale community college.

I like how the community universe's excuse for season 4 was a "gas leak".

drew describing jeff as the straight man of community is so insane to me because jeff is maybe the straight man in season one but he gets REAL crazy as time goes on

Community lost 3 main cast members, was canceled once, moved to a shitty streaming service, and still ended up as the best sitcom ever made. That's impressive.

yall remember in season 2 of community when shirley gave birth in anthropology class? abed stated that he had helped deliver a baby in the back of an suv before. a few episodes before that, while jeff was saying something, you could see someone giving birth in the back of an suv far away in the background... this show is insane

When community started losing cast, it felt like losing old friends. I legit felt sad at the end

Community’s legacy is literally the textbook definition of “I’m unappreciated in my time”

I’m still flabbergasted that “yahoo screen” was something that existed

Pierce probably wouldn't agree that Jeff was a "straight man"

I love how now Community's third run on Netflix brought it back into popularity. Proving it only failed because of Yahoo

AND NOW WE'RE GETTING OUR MOVIE!!! Community is probably one of if not my favourite show of all time. Even the "gas leak year" season had its good moments.

One of my favorite gags of Arrested Development was when they were about to be cancelled in the final season and had a whole episode centered around switching family companies (networks), and they brought up the "Home Buyers Organization" (HBO) and Showtime and a few others. Plus the narrator mentioning every two mins to "tell your friends to watch this". Iconic

I feel like in Community we didn't understand how important Troy was until he left.

Community was Streets Ahead

referring to community season 4 as "an uno card with a weird stain on it" is the funniest and truest thing ive ever fucking heard

I legitimately think the original run of arrested development has the best writing of any television show

The Dean from Community is exactly the type of character that I would typically hate and get annoyed of very quickly (not exactly part of the "main crew" but still gets a lot of screen time) but honestly he's such a well-written character that I can't help but love him with my whole heart lol

This is honestly why I’m so relieved the creators of The Good Place are purposely stopping after their 4th season to maintain the integrity of the plot line.

Alternate take: If giving Community a 6th season killed Yahoo Screen, that is a net win for the world. Let’s be honest: there is no scenario of Yahoo Screen spending that 42 million differently where it would have been better spent. The platform died blowing its wad on something great, rather than throwing those 42 million dollars it had no business possessing in the first place in a wood chipper.

That fact that Community’s season 6 was really good, while being moved to Yahoo and without Donald Glover (Troy), Chevy Chase (Pierce) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley) shows just how fucking good Dan Harmon was. And shoutout to Paget Brewster and Keith David, who I thought were both terrific in season 6. I let’s not forget how important the Russo Brothers were to Community. Arrested Development on the other hand was pretty weak on season 4 & 5. It just seemed like none of the actors wanted to do the show anymore. It felt very forced. Which is a shame, because the first 3 seasons of AD are probably the funniest episodes of television ever. Often times when I binge watch AD, and just stop after the 3rd season.