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Originally Posted by mlyonsd
I've heard a lot of posters claiming Community is funny.
When did that start? I watched half the first year and was bored to death. Did something change? Should I try it again?
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Both Community and Parks and Recreation took the first half of their freshman seasons to find their footing and voices. This is widely accepted in the critical community. While not bad, per se, at first, both have improved exponentially since.
Both started off establishing who the players are and what motivations drive them. Once that was established, they writers could get down to the work of making their foibles funny.
P&R is about bouncing character archetypes against each other.
Community is about taking those archetypes and throwing them into pop culture tropes that both celebrate and deconstruct said tropes. Its humor derives from how deeply they deconstruct and how expertly they reconstruct something new from all the deconstruction.