One of the reasons I, and so many other people, latched onto Community was the show’s willingness to go anywhere and do anything, so long as it had a good reason to do so. And while that first part of the preceding sentence was what set the show apart, the latter clause is ultimately the most important part of the whole thing. As Community’s gimmicks have taken over the show’s writing process, eventually the concept has come first and the writing a distant second, the end result being “Intro to Felt Surrogacy,” a puppet-themed episode that existed for the puppets and not, unfortunately, for the characters.
Most of the episode is told through flashback puppets, and admittedly Community does an excellent job explaining why the puppets make a sort of sense. At least, they make sense within the show’s world, and that’s certainly good enough. However, once the show goes into the flashbacks themselves, the writing, not to mention the songs, enter into a world of subpar non-jokes that felt more fitting for a children’s show than a primetime comedy. A certain element of homage may be present here, but the Muppets have certainly always been a lot funnier than the material here. The dearth of jokes was simply astounding.
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