#SixSeasonsAndAMovie
The primary identifier of Greendale Human Beings, aside from being middle to high earners between the ages of 18-35 who are willing to do anything to save a show beside actually watch it while it's being shown on television, (that's a television demographics joke, for those of you keeping track at home) is this charming little slogan. While it comes from humble origins, as a throwaway sight gag during a clip episode, it has become a mantra for people whose biggest problem is the withholding of a television program for marketing purposes.
This is, actually, one of the easiest to understand terms in the bizarre lexicographic menagerie of the Community world: it means we want Six Seasons and a Movie worth of Community, preferably uninterrupted by hiatuses prompted by NBC's attempt to promote a buddy cop show starring a St.Bernard named Bernie O'Brien who talks with a heavy Boston accent. Given that Community is a multiple award winner and emmy nominated show it seems reasonable for fans to suggest that it shouldn't have to be in a fight for its life against a monkey in scrubs and the reanimated corpse of "The Office," but here we are.
Proper Usage: "Watching The Office is about as funny as being told you have Chlamydia. Bring back Community! #SixSeasonsAndAMovie."
#TheDarkestTimeline
One of my personal favorites. The slogan that launched a thousand ships and a million mediocre photoshop attempts. Contrary to popular belief, The Darkest Timeline is not exclusively a potential piece of prophecy referring to a future Romney Presidency. The Darkest Timeline is a closing credits gag from Emmy nominated episode, named after the patented NBC show selection methodology,"Remedial Chaos Theory." The meme is invoked whenever the show is put into jeopardy and references the fact that as we enter into a universe without Community we must be departing into an alternate timeline where everything is horrible and all hope is lost. As we drive a path into this dark and pointless existence, the fact that there is a perfect alternate timeline where we have eliminated system racism, elected Jon Stewart president and returned to a regular weekly airing of Community is comforting to people like me.
This meme even comes with a convenient symbol, a black goatee. Now you too can wear the standing symbol of evil twins everywhere to signify your lack of faith in a loving God and passion for pop culture references in your relationship driven network comedies. To be completely honest, and particularly selfish, this is actually pretty good for me. Movember is coming up and, as I've mentioned, I'm completely unable to grow a proper beard for myself so now I have a plausible excuse to wear a fake one all month.
Proper Usage: Community has been canceled, forget "The Road," this is clearly #TheDarkestTimeline.
Annie's Boobs
This one is a little bit more disappointing than our previous entries. In an episode of Community where the Gang create a Goodellas inspired chicken finger smuggling operation Troy buys a monkey and calls it Annie's Boobs. Being that Annie is a character with boobs, as well as a monkey, hilarity ensued. While the premise of the gag is absolute comedic genius, I understand the utility of this particular term is probably limited. It's helpful for the uninitiated to understand that Annie's Boobs can be a useful designator anatomically OR zoologically, if you find it difficult to differentiate between a monkey and female breasts during a conversation you're doing one or both of them horribly wrong. In spite of this, an explanation gives me a great opportunity to shoehorn an Alison Brie gif into this blog post which, based on polling, is the single greatest way to drive traffic in the history of the internet.
October 19th
Our final entry in the list of things that the Internet is going to be yelling at you about also continues the trend of Community fans bizarre temporality fetish, October 19th. I'm going to offer this up as advanced warning, sometime in January when all of your cool friends start tweeting and Facebook posting about how January 17th is suddenly October 19th you'll thank me. The origins of this particular meme stem from the above video, where the Community gang offer an uplifting message that, no matter when the show comes back, it will be October 19th.
A cute, hopeful, and funny message presented in a vaguely stockholm syndrome-y way. I can hardly imagine a better way to explain the relationship between Community and it's fans.
And that, ladies and gentleman, is my brief introductory course in some of Community's more popular memes. Now, go watch the show and, for the love of God, when it comes back on television watch it. Us middle-class, college educated tv snobs have life hard enough without our favorite show being pulled out from under us.
