Practice Makes Perfect

There was no new Community this week.

Some of you may have known that this brief hiatus was coming for over a week now. This group has as much free time to scan network websites and television blogs as I do.

Others of you may not have realized the time slot was being filled by The Office reruns until you turned on your TV's last night and were disappointed to see Steve Carell instead of Joel McHale. For that group, this may also mark the first time you have ever been disappointed to see Steve Carell.

More of you may not have realized there was no new Community last night until you eagerly opened up your Hulu queues this afternoon and panicked, thinking that the absence of a new episode meant that Hulu and NBC had contract negotiation troubles and forced your favorite comedy into a licencing agreement that required a thirty day delay. These people should probably take a moment to ponder NBCUniversal's Gollum-like schizophrenia. 

Still others of you may not have realized there was no new Community this week until you started reading this blog entry. You are the reason that we fans are still wondering if there will ever be a season 3. You're dead to me.

However you found out, it's likely that your day was a little less bright when you did. Unfortunately that very disappointment is something that is going to become all too common, all too soon. You see, Community is currently filming its final episode, which means that the summer hiatus is now only a few episodes/weeks away. And when that time comes we will have to go not one mere week, but entire months without new episodes of Community to sustain our palette for humor. Or White Collar to sate our thirst for crazy conspiracy theories. Or dozens of other shows that fufill many other sustenance related metaphors.

So thanks NBC, for giving us a little practice to ease us into the heartbreak we all know is coming. If only it didn't promise to be so unbearable.

I guess that's what DVD Box Sets are for.