December 2011
2 posts
I miss the middle aged Mexican lady next to my old apartment that was UNCEASINGLY astonished by my resemblance to Russel Crowe. Every day she saw me, for five years, she never stopped thinking I looked EXACTLY like Russel Crowe and her mind NEVER stopped being blown by it. I would strategically time my front door exits with hers so that I could get another chance to shrug demurely and nod my...
Crucial Update on my Bodily Functions
I have, physically, had worse and better 2:30 AMs than this. I haven’t seen that recent Planet of the Apes movie but based on the descriptions I’ve heard, its third act is unfolding in my abdomen. I feel like I accidentally swallowed an entire very put-upon chimp with zero tolerance for captivity and a vindictive determination to make some points known on the way out.
Fiv just rubbed her nose on...
November 2011
1 post
Mea Culpa for Those Needing One. Onward and...
Community’s episode “Advanced Gay” had a very simple, fast moving story about fathers and sons - particularly the relationship between Pierce Hawthorne, established homophobe, and his father, whom, it turns out, is all the more homophobic.
A conflict arises between the two that is not acknowledged by the son until the end of the episode, when it’s too late, and is, prior...
October 2011
2 posts
Fine, we're geniuses but not EVIL geniuses.
(this is a post for Community fans, clarifying an odd rumor about a recent episode. No need to read more if you’re not absurdly obsessed with our show).
I have been trying not to read reviews, and especially the discussions under them, this season, as I have become emotionally fused with our TV show in a way that makes it hurt every time someone says it’s not perfect. However, there...
September 2011
1 post
monsterslikeyougirl asked: I'm picking my year 2 modules for Uni, Film & TV production right now and I don't know whether to pick scriptwriting or not because I used to love to write but lately it's like all I feel is frustration and anger whenever I try to write anything and I just end up staring at that fucking blinking curser for an eternity. Should I just abandon writing for now or would you be able...
August 2011
8 posts
ericpetersonforreals-deactivate asked: Hi Dan. My wife and I love Community, and can't wait for Season 3. I've been craving to ask you something. I went through a phase studying Campbell, Voegler, and Truby, and your tutorials were incredibly helpful. I feel confident about structure. But I don't feel that I can write character's with enough depth to keep up. Is there anything as pragmatic as the monomyth to...
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Elliot Smith’s No Name #1 on a loop. Walled up in my office. Let’s try to keep things light today. Let’s just talk about work. How’s your job going? What do you do again? You’re a nurse or something, right? Okay, your time is up. Talk about me again.
Should be a good season. I think? We did a table read of the Halloween episode yesterday. I dudditz...
The Historic 2011 Harmontown Twittersode
Here is an image of what transpired for those that missed it. Harmontown tickets may still be available at http://bit.ly/q5rtzm Special thanks to @Mr_Hambone for putting this visual transcript together!
masonthomas asked: Dan Harmon,
Being a (in my opinion) very succesful and skilled writer, what advice would you give to others who aspire to write a TV series comedy, and just write in general? You have incredible talent for comedic timing, wit, and clever story arcs, I'm working on writing in that degree, and as I greatly look up to Community, I would love any "wisdom" you might have...
Being a (in my opinion) very succesful and skilled writer, what advice would you give to others who aspire to write a TV series comedy, and just write in general? You have incredible talent for comedic timing, wit, and clever story arcs, I'm working on writing in that degree, and as I greatly look up to Community, I would love any "wisdom" you might have...
Things I Didn't Mean in That Blog Entry
1. I didn’t mean that Erin didn’t love me, or that I didn’t love her, or that we didn’t have love together.
2. I didn’t mean she was ever dishonest.
3. I didn’t mean she was anything less than a perfect girlfriend.
I have emails from Erin that she wrote to me when I was feeling like a depressed, hacky pretentious baby, that should be framed in the Smithsonian...
Things They May Never Tell You 002
1. Everyone is basically a liar, because you can’t possibly tell everyone the truth about everything - we’d never get anything done. That being said:
2. There are the people that, by default, prefer you to know what they’re thinking, and there are the people who, by default, prefer you not to know. Nobody’s good and nobody’s bad but it’s safer to keep to...
you are a moon for a while
Before I knew how to talk to people in real life (coworkers will tell you I never actually learned) I learned to talk to people on the internet. I was 14, I had an old TRS-80 from my Dad’s office, and, at night, I would use it with a direct connect 300 baud modem to call a “citizen’s band emulator” and chat with college students. The system would only let you log in until...
July 2011
4 posts
Things They Might Never Tell You 001
Thirty seconds after it gets easy, you will forget how hard it was.
Time does not advance 1 second per second. It advances 1 important moment at a time. You have less and less of these as you get used to them, therefore, the older you get, the faster time goes.
[I assume] you can jump out of as many airplanes as you want, and the above fact will never change. The reason for this is: every...
Had to be archived
ME
I would be a superhero if I could just not think about women.
DINO
Every superhero has a kryptonite…
ME
Yeah but you’re a not a very good one if your kryptonite is “people that want to beat you up.”
Found My Open Response to Our Neighbor in my...
Dear Neighbor:
I’m not new to SoCal - and thank you for abbreviating Southern California to keep your letter quick and painless - but I am new to living near you, and I just want to say…FUCK YOU. I’m sorry for typing my actual feelings instead of typing one thing and feeling another, but I guess if everyone had your grace and politeness, you wouldn’t have been forced...
Writer George Gallo was on Paramount’s lot yesterday; he’s an old collaborator of one of our EPs, Russ Krasnoff. You might know I tweeted a few nights ago while watching a movie he wrote, Midnight Run, for the millionth time.
Russ texted me that he was in the office so I ran down there to say hi, and to say, once again, thanks for writing Midnight Run. Russ probably mentioned my...
March 2011
7 posts
whataboutateakettle asked: After the last episode, I was motivated to watch "My Dinner with Andre" and realised (which I then confirmed by rewatching 'Critical Film Studies' at least twice afterwards) that Danny Pudi is an utter chameleon! This shouldn't be a surprise to me, but I'm atill in awe at how perfectly tuned in he was to Andre. Amazing. The whole episode was brilliant, min-blowingly...
nowownom0re asked: It may sounds cliche, but what's your favorite Community epiosde?
josetheace asked: Do you ever get tired of fans asking you for stuff? Or does that just show that people are still invested in the show?
judykim97 asked: What scene of season 2 Community has made you laugh the hardest while filming it? Is this the same as the scene that's made you laugh the hardest upon watching it back?
I may or may not have literally screamed with laughter at Jeff's MTV Real World audition tape. :) Not only for the contents of the vid itself, but also for the entire scenario surrounding it: Annie getting...
I may or may not have literally screamed with laughter at Jeff's MTV Real World audition tape. :) Not only for the contents of the vid itself, but also for the entire scenario surrounding it: Annie getting...
flowerings asked: http://reservationatdorsia.tumblr.com/post/3495916827/can-we-for-once-have-an-episode-of-community-that-gives
http://reservationatdorsia.tumblr.com/post/3495916827/can-we-for-once-have-an-episode-of-community-that-gives
http://reservationatdorsia.tumblr.com/post/3495916827/can-we-for-once-have-an-episode-of-community-that-gives
davidseger:
laurataylor:
Giovanna - Me and My...
http://reservationatdorsia.tumblr.com/post/3495916827/can-we-for-once-have-an-episode-of-community-that-gives
http://reservationatdorsia.tumblr.com/post/3495916827/can-we-for-once-have-an-episode-of-community-that-gives
atrainmovingtoofast asked: Aren't you going to give more attention to Jeff\Britta? Just because it's not majority, doesn't mean that no one likes it. I'm getting kinda sick of Jeff\Annie, mostly because it's a bit creepy and I'm getting the feeling that I'm the only one who sees it. Congrats on having the best comedy TV show I've ever seen. I really hope that you guys get a 3rd...
chemasolari asked: Recently found your MySpace profile, where you list Charlie Kaufman as one of your heroes. I've also read some of your stuff and it seems that both of you are obsessed with apes. Is it a coincidence or is there something else there?
Not trying to kiss ass or anything, but your work is truly inspirational.
Not trying to kiss ass or anything, but your work is truly inspirational.
February 2011
2 posts
TWO whole Reddit questions answered:
I love these Reddit questions, they make me feel like Orson Welles. Unfortunately, they make me answer the questions like Todd Welles, Orson’s younger brother, who was stupid and who tried to cover it with bluster. But here goes, and I’ll answer more when I can, soon.
gladvillain asks:
“Do you have any ideas to make the show last beyond four seasons if it were to continue...
Sometimes, in the morning, you stumble onto a morning kids’ show you’ve never seen before and will never see again, something on some cable network called VooVoo or NickNack, something about incredibly non-iconic chickens or squirrels or human babies or something, and they’re barely doing anything, they’re literally just hanging out, not chasing anything or blowing anything...
January 2011
1 post
davidseger:
laurataylor:
Giovanna - Me and My...
December 2010
2 posts
October 2010
1 post
Stop Telling me Sharks are Misunderstood
I found this rant in my phone’s notepad. Pretty funny but probably not comedically bleeding edge. I don’t remember writing it, date says 2007. I miss having this much spare energy.
Stop telling me sharks are misunderstood
I understand sharks, Shark Documentary Asshole. They’re giant mouths in the water that eat meat. Why is it every time I record a show called “shark: ravenous...
August 2010
1 post
My Community Theme Lyrics for Approval
The 88 are recording an extended version of the Community theme song for our UPCOMING SOUNDTRACK RELEASE and I just found out the band is contractually obligated to submit any new lyrics to the studio for approval. I have no involvement, I say let a band be a band, but I submitted these for my own entertainment. Have not yet heard back.
Gimmie some love / Grow me a tree / Make every heart /...
June 2010
1 post
Carl Jung May Have Been Wrong
We were having a small degree of difficulty breaking the story for our third episode yesterday, so Neil Goldman and I were texting possibilities to each other late into the night. Finally, I texted that I was going to sleep, and that I would use a trick I learned from one of my 90 ex therapists. I would “give myself permission to have an important dream.”
Here is the dream from which I just...
April 2010
1 post
Community's Out of Order? You're Out of Order!
This is the official explanation of the “out of order” production numbers being discussed by the more hard core elements of Community fandom, whose fear of network air-order-shuffling I totally understand but which, in this case, is unnecessary.
You have definitely been seeing our last six episodes in the order the writers intended from the very beginning.
Here’s the reason...
March 2010
4 posts
February 2010
7 posts
The Dead Alewives
Mondy Carter posted photos of our old improv troupe, The Dead Alewives, on his Facebook page. No matter what anyone tells me, I’ll never be convinced that it’s not weird to be young and then old.
The Dead Alewives had roughly three “eras,” and Rob Schrab and I were part of the middle one. It was just after I dropped out of Marquette University and just before we moved...
I Have Registered The Following Titles for...
If you have used any of these, you owe me the amount listed or I will sue you:
Very Normal Activity $6,000
Fairly Horrible Activity $600
Paranormal Nativity $13,000
Barely Moral Activity $1,000
Para My Country ‘Tis of Thee $7
Hairy Squirrel Activity $190
Parasail Activity $16.95
Pair of Balls Activity $12
Married Oral Activity $2,000
Pear in Dorm Room Activity $6
And a friendly...
Bruce Willis Surrogates Theme Lyrics
Bruce Willis Surrogates
(gonna get ya)
Comin’ from the end of time
Bruce Willis Surrogates
(comin’ at ya)
You know I’m gonna take what’s mine!
To the Old Man That Shakes His Head at Cars He...
Hello, old man. It’s me, the guy in the speeding silver Prius you’re constantly grimacing at.
I’m going about 20 mph. Okay? It’s not that fast. I’m never going to hit you.
I guess I keep forgetting to Tumble.
I keep forgetting to Tumble. I should Tumble more. Is that what it’s called?
December 2009
27 posts
“Don’t listen to people that tell you what they think audiences like. ...”
– Stephen Hawking