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SDCC 2014: In Case You Forgot, Yahoo Saved Community

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Joel McHale snaps a photo of the crowd at the Community Panel as fellow cast member Gillian Jacobs and executive producer Chris McKenna look on.
Joel McHale snaps a photo of the crowd at the Community Panel as fellow cast member Gillian Jacobs and executive producer Chris McKenna look on.

by Abigale Raney

If you summed up TV Guide's Community panel in one quote, it would be taken from the opening video, which featured clips from all five previous seasons (though noticeably light on season four) and then a flatline over a white screen that was revived to blip out the Yahoo! logo. Then:

"Ratings?" says Abed in voiceover, "Where we're going, we don't need ratings."

Because it's the new, resurrected Community, available sometime this fall/winter on Yahoo's cross-platform "Yahoo Screen". And the big question on a lot of minds seems to be how this new online incarnation of Community will be different. Panel moderator Michael Schneider asks if the shackles are off now, and Harmon deadpans about finally getting to push his anti-vaccination agenda before reassuring everyone that what makes Community the show it is will not change. He tells everyone they'll watch it exactly how they usually do – the only difference being "now it's legal". And the freedom of being on the internet may be felt from time to time, but Harmon knows it's important to keep Community recognizable as the show that fans love. If anything, he thinks being partnered with Yahoo might open up possibilities for more fan interaction – in the form of Meow Meow Beans app, perhaps?

Looking forward to the future fate of Greendale, Dan Harmon commented that he loved the school as an "underdog campus", and that element is unlikely to change. When asked about matters of love on screen – and who might end up with a certain lawyer with attractively disheveled hair – the key will be following the "organic energy" of character relationships and story progressions. And what else is in store for the future? For one,  "everyone's going to be a vampire." For another, "Troy's out there somewhere. He may be in peril. That's what movies are made of." The vampire comment, clearly a joke. But Troy's return in a Community movie? While Harmon is quick to point out that's just an idea he was throwing out, and nothing more, it has to be said that Community has a record of tenacity unlike perhaps any other television show in history. We've made it to six seasons. Why not a movie, too?

Community creator Dan Harmon answers a question from the audience.
Community creator Dan Harmon answers a question from the audience.

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