Does anyone watch the NBC "sitcom"--well, half-hour comedy anyway (no laugh track)--Community? I have been a RABID fan since the first episode last year.
For those who haven't seen it, it's about a very odd group attending community college. The "leader" was a slimy lawyer but was caught with a fake degree, so he had to go back to school and get a real one. The others are a radical feminist, a devout Christian newly divorced mother, a high school "star quarterback" who blew out his knee (doing a kegstand at a party) and lost his scholarship to a four-year college, an older retired guy who's completely out of step with the 21st century (Chevy Chase--marvelously understated but completely insane at the same time), a girl who was a goody-two-shoes in high school but missed her senior year because she was getting over an addiction to Adderal, and a guy with Asperger's who wants to be a filmmaker and always has a handy reference to some movie or other to compare with whatever is going on in "real life".
This week the Christian mother, Shirley, asked the film guy, Abed, to help her make a YouTube video for her church to get kids interested in religion. He came up with an idea for a "meta" film--a filmmaker making a movie about Jesus who discovers he's actually Jesus and God is making a film of him...!
:rofl:
Anyway, Shirley doesn't go for it, but he makes it anyway, and the results are BRILLIANT. He dresses like Jesus Christ Superstar set in present day (leather pants!) and starts talking in veiled philosophical statements, and the students at the school watching him make the movie actually become his followers.
It's nearly impossible to explain, so all I can do is recommend that you take 22 minutes out of your busy schedule to laugh your ass off! Here's the Hulu link. Hope you give it a shot! I think I'm going to watch it a second time. :hi:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/184793/community-messianic-myths-and-ancient-peoples#s-p1-so-i0