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" &amp;quot;Season four of Community&amp;quot; is about to become part of entertainment history. The phrase &amp;quot;jumping the shark&amp;quot; was famously based on an episode of Happy Days, which was the greatest example of a television show that was fun and then lost it. At the moment, I&amp;#039;m not sure how the new phrase will work out. Possibly &amp;quot;Season-fouring&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Communitying.&amp;quot; I like &amp;quot;Harmonfiring&amp;quot; myself, but whatever term eventually rises to the top of the pop-culture lexicon, its meaning will be clear: A television show that falls off a cliff due to poor judgment from executives. Season four of Community, which premieres tonight on NBC, is made without the show&amp;#039;s creator, Dan Harmon, who had a bad breakup with NBC last year. It&amp;#039;s not merely bad. It is memorably bad. I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ve actually seen a sitcom more poorly made or less interesting. It makes 2 Broke Girls look like Dostoevsky. Not one single laugh. Not one single feeling. I could tell that there were plots, but I couldn&amp;#039;t really tell what the plots were. I know that there was a parody of Hunger Games somewhere in the first of the two episodes made available to critics, but what the point of the parody was I couldn&amp;#039;t tell. If you had any positive association with the original show (because I don&amp;#039;t think this season can really be considered the same as the previous three), you might well feel slightly sickened. It is embarrassing, to say the least, to watch actors whom we all know can be hilarious straining over the less-than-nothings they are given to work with. I wanted to cry for Alison Brie. I mean, she committed. But what could she do with not a single scene that wasn&amp;#039;t grimly forgettable?  I would like to think that Dan Harmon is somewhere laughing his ass off, but I doubt he will be. The show is just too bad, too upsetting. The soul of Community has left. Whoever fired him and whoever replaced him clearly failed to understand that the secret to the original show was not just the actors and a bunch of jokes and a parody of pop-culture phenomena. The point was to parody the pop culture that you love. Now they&amp;#039;re just parodying stuff randomly. Without the love, Community is over, a zombie. The good news is that there&amp;#039;s one less television show you have to watch. That will give you some room. You can start watching Happy Endings with everybody else.  Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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