Between Community and Psych
Psych truly has the superior homages. Between the twins and the kid on the Big Wheel, I can't wait to see what's in store for the "Clue" episode.
Posted Mar 9, 2012, 7:06 AM UTC
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Psych will always win for me, but the Pulp Fiction episode of Community was pretty good. And their dungeons and dragons episode taught me so much about the game.
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Community does have its moments. But sometimes I feel they go too wacky just for the sake of a gag. Psych on the otherhand keeps within the realm of realism. I loved the touch they used the original twins from The Shining as a cameo creep-out.
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I won Dungeons and Dragons, and it was Advanced!
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To preface this opinion, I have only seen about 6 episodes of Community. I wish it was on Netflix, so I could catch up on it. Anyway...
I don't think they are really comparable. One is an hour long dramaedy. The other a half our sitcom. Both are great for their own reasons.
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Based on the first few episodes I understand where you're coming from. Just a note that in later episodes Community starts to make homages to film genres like horror, spaghetti westerns, and even Pulp Fiction. Oh, and there was a couple Batman episodes too.
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I was about to say I'm super psyched, completely unintentionally and everything, but then I realized that it would look like I was attempting to make a stupid pun. So I will just say I am super excited.
Psych is definitely my favorite show, although I have to give community some love too.
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I know this has nothing to do really with what you're comparing them for, but I was just having an internal argument with myself the other day about which duo I liked more, Shawn/Gus or Troy/Abed. I eventually settled on Shawn/Gus because they just play so perfectly off of each other and get a lot more focus obviously.
Sorry for going off topic... I'd definitely say Psych has the better homages as well, but Community is easily one of the best shows on TV.
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I don't know, they are both so good. Community does stuff like this that really make me laugh when you finally notice it.
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I'm not sure I agree that Psych has superior homages. Psych tends to reference a lot while remaining in reality, while Community tends to enter the universe and fully commit to it. The only two Psych homages that have done that for me were Dual Spires and Heeeere's Lassy. For instance, High Noon-ish didn't feel nearly as Western as Community's For A Few Paintballs More. Psych operates in a world where people can have guns and stakes can be real, while Community has to create reference points for those things. In some ways it benefits Community, because they have to go out of their way to make their plots and atmosphere reflect the homage, as opposed to Psych, where the setting and references are often enough.
All that being said, I love the way Psych does homages and I hope they never stop making them.
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THERE'S GOING TO BE A CLUE EPISODE?!?!?!?! I purposefully don't look at the website so as to not ruin anything, but hot damn I wish I knew about that! LOVE PSYCH WRITERSSS!
Not this season, but in the upcoming one. The writers have just gone back to work, and one tweeted that they were "watching Clue for research." Plus they wanted to wait till they could get Tim Curry back.