Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Trying to watch Community. It's reminding me why I can't stand intertextuality.

[quote name="Mysterio, "Thought Leader""]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/67gMJJX.jpg"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/cnKaSHX.jpg"> S02E19 "Critical Film Studies" opens with Winger walking down the street dressed as Marcello Mastroianni, doing internal narration. Fellini spoof. I can dig it. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/fv0olZa.jpg"> Then he walks into a restaurant, and it becomes apparent we're doing My Dinner with Andre. Abed's sweater confirms it. So why is Winger wearing a suit? <img src="https://i.imgur.com/ymWTpa8.jpg"> Because they're doing Pulp Fiction in the B-plot. Wait a minute, that still doesn't explain it. Only Jules wore a normal tie, and Shirley's Jules. Vincent Vega wore a bolo tie and The Wolf wore a bow tie. Why is Winger wearing a normal tie? I googled Pulp Fiction stills and apparently Vincent Vega wore a normal tie at work. He only changed into the bolo to go dancing. So Winger could conceivably have on a Vincent Vega outfit. Why didn't they just use the bolo and save me the grief? <img src="https://i.imgur.com/LvjzNXp.jpg"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Zg7bcmg.gif"> Later they recreate the famous twist scene from 8 1/2. It's framed all wrong but the normal tie is correct. Still no explicit reference to Fellini in dialogue. I can't tell if I'm being trolled or I'm just going crazy. Inbetween I thought I saw the glowing briefcase from Kiss Me Deadly, but that's a non-starter. Nobody's going to mistake Joel McHale for Mike Hammer. Watching this show feels like reading Wikipedia, only all the hyperlinks point to my local drive. Am I being tested? What am I supposed to be getting out of this?[/quote]