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VCR Maintenance And Educational Publishing
"VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of '' Community'', and the 93rd episode overall in the series. It originally aired on March 13, 2014 on NBC. The episode was written by Donald Diego, and directed by Tristram Shapeero. The episode marked the series writing debut of Diego. The episode was met with generally positive reviews. Despite positive reviews from critics, however, the episode maintained the previous two weeks' ratings low with a 1.0/4 in the 18-49 rating/share with an audience of 2.77 million American viewers. Plot At a Save Greendale committee meeting, Jeff (Joel McHale Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and television host. He is best known for hosting ''The Soup'' (2004–2015) and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015). He has performed i ...), Shirley ( Yvette Nicole Brown), and Professor Hickey ( Jonathan Banks) agree to clean out one of Gre ...
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Community (TV Series)
''Community'' is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon. The series ran for 110 episodes over six seasons, with its first five seasons airing on NBC from September 17, 2009, to April 17, 2014, and its final season airing on Yahoo! Screen from March 17 to June 2, 2015. Set at a community college in the fictional Colorado town of Greendale, the series stars an ensemble cast including Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, and Jim Rash. It makes use of meta-humor and pop culture references, paying homage to film and television clichés and tropes. Harmon based ''Community'' on his experiences attending Glendale Community College. Each episode was written in accordance with Harmon's "story circle" template, a method designed to create effective and structured storytelling. Harmon was the showrunner for the first three seasons but was fired before the fourth and replaced by Da ...
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Joel McHale
Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and television host. He is best known for hosting ''The Soup'' (2004–2015) and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015). He has performed in the films ''Spider-Man 2'' (2004), '' Spy Kids: All the Time in the World'' (2011), '' Ted'' (2012) and '' The Happytime Murders'' (2018). He also starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom '' The Great Indoors'' (2016–2017), hosted a reboot of ''Card Sharks'' (2019–2021), and portrayed the superhero Sylvester Pemberton / Starman on the show '' Stargirl'' (2020–2022). In 2020, he hosted a special aftershow interviewing key subjects from the Netflix documentary series '' Tiger King'' and voiced Johnny Cage in the direct-to-video martial arts film '' Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge'' (2020), a role he reprised in the sequel '' Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms'' (2021). He also voices X-PO in ''Lego Dimensions'' (201 ...
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Hell's Kitchen (American TV Series)
''Hell's Kitchen'' is an American reality competition cooking show that premiered on Fox on May 30, 2005. The series is hosted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, who created and appeared in the British series of the same name. Each season, two teams of chefs compete for a job as head chef at a restaurant, while working in the kitchen of a restaurant set up in the television studio. A progressive elimination format reduces a field of 20 to 12 to a single winner over the course of each season. In a typical episode, a single contestant is selected for elimination. The series notably features Ramsay's explosive anger towards contestants, which in reality is heavily dramatized for the benefit of the audience. ''Hell's Kitchen'' has been nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards. A chain of Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen restaurants have been opened, inspired by the show. On February 1, 2022, the series was renewed for a twenty-first and twenty-second season. The twenty-first season, ...
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The Big Bang Theory
''The Big Bang Theory'' is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro, all of whom also served as head writers. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast 279 episodes over 12 seasons. The show originally centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny (The Big Bang Theory), Penny (Kaley Cuoco), a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and coworkers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). Over time, supporting characters were promoted to starring roles, including neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), microbiologist Bernadet ...
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Dot-com Bubble
The dot-com bubble (dot-com boom, tech bubble, or the Internet bubble) was a stock market bubble in the late 1990s, a period of massive growth in the use and adoption of the Internet. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 400%, only to fall 78% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. During the dot-com crash, many online shopping companies, such as Pets.com, Webvan, and Boo.com, as well as several communication companies, such as Worldcom, NorthPoint Communications, and Global Crossing, failed and shut down. Some companies that survived, such as Amazon, lost large portions of their market capitalization, with Cisco Systems alone losing 80% of its stock value. Background Historically, the dot-com boom can be seen as similar to a number of other technology-inspired booms of the past including railroads in the 1840s, automobiles in the early 20th century, radio in the 1920s, television in ...
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Alison Brie
Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series '' Mad Men'' (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition for her role as Annie Edison in the NBC sitcom '' Community'' (2009–2015) and voicing Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series ''BoJack Horseman'' (2014–2020). For playing Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series '' GLOW'' (2017–2019) she received nominations for two Golden Globes and two Critics' Choice Awards. In addition to her television work, Brie has also starred in films such as '' Scream 4'' (2011), '' The Five-Year Engagement'' (2012), '' The Lego Movie'' (2014), '' Get Hard'' (2015), ''Sleeping with Other People'' (2015), '' How to Be Single'' (2016), ''The Little Hours'' (2017), '' The Disaster Artist'' (2017), '' The Post'' (2017), '' Promising Young Woman'' (2020), '' Horse Girl'' (2020), '' The Rental'' (2020), and ' ...
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Videocassette Recorder
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other source on a removable, magnetic tape videocassette, and can play back the recording. Use of a VCR to record a television program to play back at a more convenient time is commonly referred to as '' timeshifting''. VCRs can also play back prerecorded tapes. In the 1980s and 1990s, prerecorded videotapes were widely available for purchase and rental, and blank tapes were sold to make recordings. VCRs declined in popularity during the early 2000s and in July 2016, Funai Electric, the last manufacturer of them ceased production. History Early machines and formats The history of the videocassette recorder follows the history of videotape recording in general. Ampex introduced the quadruplex videotape professional broadcast standard format with its Ampex VRX-1000 in 1956. It became the world's first commerciall ...
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Danny Pudi
Daniel Mark Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an American actor. His roles include Abed Nadir on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015), for which he received three nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and one nomination for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. Since 2020 he has starred as Brad Bakshi in the Apple TV+ comedy series '' Mythic Quest''. He was the voice of Huey Duck on the 2017 reboot of ''DuckTales''. Early life Daniel Mark Pudi was born in Chicago on March 10, 1979, the son of programmer and analyst Teresa (née Komendant) and Abraham L. Pudi (1955–2018). His parents immigrated to the U.S. and became naturalized citizens: his mother came from the village of Pokośno, Poland, and his father came from the village of Poduru, India, and was from a Telugu Christian family. Pudi grew up speaking Polish with his mother and grandmother. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago with brother ...
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Yvette Nicole Brown
Yvette Nicole Brown (born August 12, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, writer and host. She starred as Shirley Bennett on the NBC sitcom ''Community'', as Dani in the 2015 version of '' The Odd Couple'' on CBS and as Dina Rose on the ABC sitcom '' The Mayor''. Brown has had guest roles in television shows such as ''Drake & Josh'', ''That '70s Show'', '' The Office'', ''Boston Legal'', '' Chuck'', '' The Soul Man'', ''Mom'' and '' Big Shot (TV series), Big Shot''. In 2021, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role in ''A Black Lady Sketch Show''. In addition to television, she has had supporting roles in films such as ''(500) Days of Summer'', '' Tropic Thunder'', '' Repo Men'', '' Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters'', and '' Avengers: Endgame''. She voiced "Harper" in the video game '' Minecraft: Story Mode'' in addition to Cookie on '' Pound Puppies'', Luna on '' Elena of Avalor'' and Principal Amanda Waller on ''DC Super Hero Girls''. She has hosted Syfy ...
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Community Season 5
The fifth season of the television comedy series '' Community'' premiered on January 2, 2014, and concluded on April 17, 2014. The season consists of 13 episodes and aired on NBC on Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET as part of the network's "Comedy Night Done Right". The season features the return of series creator Dan Harmon as showrunner, as well as the exit of cast members Donald Glover and Chevy Chase from the series. John Oliver returned as Ian Duncan after a two-year hiatus. Jonathan Banks made his introduction to the series as Buzz Hickey, a criminology professor. NBC announced the series' cancellation in May 2014, but in June 2014, Yahoo! announced it had commissioned the show's sixth and final season to be streamed online on Yahoo! Screen. Cast Starring *Joel McHale as Professor Jeff Winger * Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry * Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir * Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett * Alison Brie as Annie Edison *Donald Glover as Troy Barnes * Jim Rash as ...
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Tristram Shapeero
Tristram Shapeero is a British television director. He has directed many comedy series, initially in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. Early life Shapeero was born in Somerset and spent his childhood in Bath, where he attended St. Stephen's School and Beechen Cliff School. Career Shapeero started his career as a show runner on Channel 4's '' Norbert Smith: A Life'' and then worked on '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. He went to New York in 1991 to direct a few television comedy episodes; while in New York he met his future wife, Erica. After moving back to the UK, he continued to direct television comedy., directing British comedies that include all episodes of '' Pulling'', every other episode of ''Green Wing'', and Series 2 and 3 of ''Peep Show''. He also directed episodes of shows such as '' Brass Eye'', ''I'm Alan Partridge'', and '' Absolutely Fabulous''. He has been nominated for a BAFTA eight times – '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'' and ''Brass Eye Special'' (t ...
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