♫25 cents at a time. He's taking our souls.♫

Today's song: Ass Crack Bandit by Professor Bublitz of Greendale Community College


Tomorrow I will be wearing green.  Not for the silly Galeic Ophidiophobe.  I have already explained that he wore blue.  If I wanted to honor him I'd be wearing blue.  I will be wearing green in honor of Community.

Community is the little show that could.  NBC has a habit of mistreating its best shows.  Scrubs got bounced all over the schedule and was reduced to being a mid-season replacement.  Parks and Recreation was treated similarly but did not even get full season orders.  Community, Like Parks and Recreation, started in 2009.  But Community was a season behind premiering in September as opposed to Parks April debut.  In those five months NBC perfected its methods for water boarding and other torture of a television program and its loyal fans.

NBC would bounce Community all around its schedule.  It denied the show full seasons.  It arbitrarily changed the show's seasonal debuts, ask the fans about October 19.  And in the end NBC canceled Community.

Fortunately for all of us Yahoo decided to resurrect the show.  Tomorrow, more specifically at 3:01 AM Eastern Time or 07:01  Greenwich Mean Time,  Community will make its season 6 debut on Yahoo Screen.

I am not going to extol the virtues of this show here.  I have already written extensively on the topic of Community.  If you don't already want to see it, nothing I say here will change your mind.  I am just happy to know that tomorrow I will get to watch new episodes.

As for the Ass Crack Bandit, or ACB,  Ben Folds had a guest turn as Professor Bublitz.  He also wrote the song Ass Crack Bandit for the show.  It is first played briefly at the start of the second act after the commercial break, six minutes and twenty-two seconds in if you are watching without commercials.  Real Neil tells us that the song is shooting up the request line at Greendale and we get thirty-two seconds of the song.  At the end of the episode a fuller version of the song is played over the denouement.  Here we are given sixty seconds.  But Ben Folds being the great guy he is put the full song. The link up at the top of the page is the part from the end of the episode because this was the most fitting to celebrate the show.  Here is a link to the full song.

Tomorrow right after work I will be watching Community.  This is one instance where being a real adult impinges on my bliss.  A younger, less responsible me would have just tuned in at 3:01 AM and dealt with it the next day.  But that guy didn't have a House, an MKS, and a T-Bird; I guess there are a few advantages to growing up.  Also back then there wasn't Easter Egg Nog so I can't be too jealous.

Later

Bob