#Contemporary American Poultry

[r3medialch8os]

in the beginning of contemporary american poultry jeff's line "he gives them to people just so they'll act like he isn't star-burns" (re: chicken fingers) seems very deliberately added and i can't help but think that abed heard that and based his actions in this episode on that but applied it to himself and that makes me so upset

[seizethedeansofproduction]

[athenxt]

GUYS IM AT RAISING CANES AND THEY ARE PLAYING THE SOMG THAT PLAYED DURING ABEDS REVENGE MONTAGE DURING CONTEMPARY AMERICAN POULTRY

THIS US ACTUALLY CRAZY BECAUSE IF YOU DONT KNOW CANES IS A FAST FOOD

CHICKEN FINGER PLACE

[apartment3x03]

Have to put this out there as I've never seen it mentioned: at the very end of the dvd commentary track for contemporary american poultry when troy and abed are "going down stairs" behind the window and switch clothes Dan Harmon says "and then he realises: oh, we're gay" about them. SOO

I need that movie.

[jessie-jem]

The end credits of Contemporary American Poultry where Troy and Abed are doing the awesome elevator and then they come back up wearing each other's clothes and at the very end Abed looks Troy up and down with such love in his eyes at the sight of his boyfriend in his clothes and djsjsjdhakw I'm so normal about this I promise

[fictionaltrvlr]

Has anyone made a super dramatic edit of that one chicken mafia episode of Community to “room where it happens” from Hamilton??

because I really need to see that

[conanssummerchild]

one day i have to analyse contemporary american poultry from community vs gotron jerrysis rickvangelion from rick and morty because they're episodes that are similarly structured and are centred on a similar topic in different ways, the target audience would literally be me and 2 other people but ever since the first time i watched gjr i thought "huh this is kinda like that community episode." and every time ive watched it since i've been able to draw several other connections as well as my initial one, i definitely think gtr was inspired by cap.

[luuuna-rambles]

Community gifs - 228/?

1x21, Contemporary American Poultry

[bonniehooper]

COMMUNITY REWATCH, 1x21: “Contemporary American Poultry”

-Oh God, not "street's ahead".

-Why did Troy slide across the table like that? How was that quicker than just walking around the table?

-I love how angry they are that Star-Burns is hiding chicken fingers to give to his friends, but quickly suggest doing the exact same thing so that they can have chicken.

-Why did it abruptly cut and then have an Abed do a voiceover?

-I mean, I don't know if we need to get Star-Burns fired. What's with the voiceover?

-Why the fuck was Troy dressed like a Pharaoh for that interview?

-Why don't they just make enough chicken fingers, so everyone gets some?

-Oh God, not the introduction of Annie's Boobs.

-Oh no, Jeff's power over the group is gone. He's going to lose it.

-Jeff: "Oh, and for your information, I don't have an ego. My Facebook photo is a landscape." 1.) You do have an ego Jeff 2.) How does having a picture of a landscape prove you don't have an ego?

-I can't believe Jeff is going to Star-Burns for help in stopping the study group.

-Really Annie? It's free notebooks, why would you throw them away?

-Oh wow, he destroyed Annie's backpack, got rid of Troy's monkey, put gum in Britta's hair, cut the wires to Pierce's TV, and stole Shirley's man? Oh my God.

-The whole voiceover was Abed telling the Dean about the "mafia movie".

-Dean Pelton: "Do you know who might have stolen a box of hairnets from the kitchen?" Abed: "Someone with hair." Dean Pelton: "I'm gonna write that down." 1.) Why is it such a big deal that someone stole hairnets? 2.) A lot of people have hair at this school Dean! How is that something worth writing down?

-The end scene is so dumb.

[kelongt]

ate chicken fingers at KFC today, that in of itself are two community references

[jolteonmchale]

[person4924]

contempary american poultry makes me so sad and i could write essays on it and what it means for abeds character and how the group see abed and how abed sees himself

[octopusoptimusprime]

jabed sixteen candles you are so special to me

[jeromeclarke107]

I love that the first thing he has about Troy's likes are "butt stuff."

I mean he's pretty open about it but also they're totally fucking at this point. I will take no criticism on this matter.

Community s1e21 Contemporary American Poultry group likes & needs

[conanssummerchild]

gotron jerrysis rickvangelion vs contemporary american poultry

like i said, i've been wanting to analyse these episodes in relation to eachother, so here it is :)

(i'm not pitting these episodes against eachother, merely comparing their similarities and differences, i love both episodes)

just for extra clarity, gjr will be green and cap will be blue :)

okay, so apart from obvious differences between the characters mentioned and the format and the genre of the shows, here's everything i have to say:

first off, both episodes are centred around an autistic character in the show (rick, abed) and focuses on an aspect of their autism, although the element they focus on is different, in gjr it's about a hyperfixation/special interest and in cap it's about masking/fitting in

another focus of both episodes is a dynamic change, however in gjr it's about a relationship, morty getting replaced by summer as rick's partner in crime, and in cap it's about a change in the hierarchy, abed replacing jeff as the head of the group

for the genre of the episodes, cap is mentioned to be modelled after a mafia movie, and while gjr does have some mafia movie aspects it has more anime aspects and anime is mentioned

there's also some pretty similar lines: "These were the good times." "This was the glorious time." "After that, things pretty much went back to normal." "Things went back to normal." "But you wanna know what they could never kill? Family." "But you know what they’ll never make a replacement for? Friends."

another pretty obvious similarity is that both episodes have voiceovers, a difference though is that in gjr, rick (the main foucus of the episode) does not get a voiceover, while summer and morty do, and in cap, abed (the main focus of the episode) is the only character that does get a voiceover, this is a less important point lol

also gjr is happening in real time, the voiceovers are explained by a sci-fi element, while cap is not actually happening in real time and ends up being a story that abed is telling the dean, which is how it explains the voiceover

as for the structure ig of the episodes, in gjr the episode starts on one topic (boob world) and rick autistically derails it to another completely different one (gotron ferrets), in cap the episode immediately starts with the one topic (chicken fingers) and abed autistically keeps it on that topic until the end, using it to his benefit

both episodes involve the whole group (the smith family and the study group) but in gjr everyone is only really following what rick says, and no one is as invested as he is, while in cap the whole group is pretty much equally collaborating, though it has a deeper meaning for abed. also in cap everyone kind of gets their own equal mini story but in gjr, rick's story is much more predominant than summer and morty's and beth and jerry don't get much of a story at all

okay, getting to the deeper shit, in gjr, rick seems uninterested in what the people around him are doing or feeling, his main priority is the gotrons and things like his own wellbeing and other's feelings are not his main concern, while cap is the exact opposite, the whole point is that abed does care, the whole episode is about something he's doing for other people to understand him, he's not as much literally interested in the chicken fingers. that's what drives cap, while it's rick's toxicity that drives gjr

additionally, in gjr in the beginning when morty sees that rick is beginning to get too absorbed he reminds him that "sometimes enough is enough", out of genuine care for rick, while it's not until much later in cap that jeff begins to suggest that they "hit the big red button", only out of jealousy. while i'm sure morty was jealous of summer, his main concern did seem to be rick's wellbeing because i think that we can all agree that this:

was not healthy

and heres a photo of abed just because:

expanding on the last point, in gjr, summer is not worried about rick's wellbeing, but about rick liking her (not holding this against her), similarly in cap, jeff is also not concerned about how abed is doing, only about his own social standing, morty is the only character that actually seems to care about how his respective main character (rick) is doing

lastly, at the end of each episode the group goes running back to the person they shunned (jeff and morty) for being against abed/rick once they decide it's been enough/once rick's done with them

and that's it! i love these episodes so much so i hope anyone else other than me enjoys this analysis lol :) if you think of anything else that links these episodes let me know !!

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

Sometimes watching Community is like "Abed's just like me fr 😃" and sometimes it's "Abed's just like me fr ☹️"