Sony Dumped Community's Creator Without So Much As A Phone Call
Some of us know what it feels like to come into work on a Friday morning (those bitches ALWAYS do it on a Friday), sit in our cubicles and log into our computers only to get the dreaded "incorrect password" pop-up. You roll out of your cubicle, turn to your co-worker and say some shit like, "My password doesn't work." They throw you a look that clearly says, "Gurrrrrl, you better clear out the office supply closet while your ass still has time." The "incorrect password" pop-up is your boss' way of letting your computer to do the dirty work so their ass doesn't have to. That's basically sort of what happened to Community's creator and one-time show runner Dan Harmon. Yesterday, news broke that NBC chose not to pick up Dan Harmon's contract and replaced him with David Guarascio and Moses Port from Happy Endings. Dan said on his Tumblr page last night that he found out when everybody else did. NBC and Sony didn't give him an awkward goodbye party in the conference room and didn't give him a chance to have a dramatic cunt meltdown in the middle of the office before getting dragged away by security. Sony and NBC quit his ass through a press release.
Dan also said that the head of NBC Bob Greenblatt was telling lies when he said that Dan would still be a part of Community. That isn't so. Dan writes that he hasn't had one conversation with NBC since he found out he was dumped and he really has no clue as to why they gave him a one-way ticket to the unemployment line. Vulture says that NBC felt Dan had a million great ideas in his head, but sucked at managing the writers. Here's a piece of Dan Harmon's firing according to Dan Harmon:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because they once created a show and cast my good friend Jeff Davis on it, so how bad can they be.
Why’d Sony want me gone? I can’t answer that because I’ve been in as much contact with them as you have. They literally haven’t called me since the season four pickup, so their reasons for replacing me are clearly none of my business. Community is their property, I only own ten percent of it, and I kind of don’t want to hear what their complaints are because I’m sure it would hurt my feelings even more now that I’d be listening for free.
And he goes on...
You may have read that I am technically “signed on,” by default, to be an executive consulting something or other - which is a relatively standard protective clause for a creator in my position. Guys like me can’t actually just be shot and left in a ditch by Skynet, we’re still allowed to have a title on the things we create and “help out,” like, I guess sharpening pencils and stuff.
However, if I actually chose to go to the office, I wouldn’t have any power there. Nobody would have to do anything I said, ever. I would be “offering” thoughts on other people’s scripts, not allowed to rewrite them, not allowed to ask anyone else to rewrite them, not allowed to say whether a single joke was funny or go near the edit bay, etc. It’s….not really the way the previous episodes got done. I was what you might call a….hands on producer. Are my….periods giving this enough….pointedness? I’m not saying you can’t make a good version of Community without me, but I am definitely saying that you can’t make my version of it unless I have the option of saying “it has to be like this or I quit” roughly 8 times a day.
Well, at least they didn't make Dan go into the office to tell him. It's the worst when they make your ass drive all the way in instead of telling you over the phone. Getting told your shit is fired is a little bit easier to take when you're in your panties and sitting on your bed with a bowl of coffee (you're out of clean mugs) in your lap. If I was Dan, I'd still go in, though. But only to eat all the food and to have office chair races with myself in the hallways.
And I can't wait to hear what kind of "leaked" voicemails come out of this mess.
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Maybe it's just me but I kinda hated Community this last season but I liked the one before...and Chevy Chase sucks.
I don't know any of the politics behind this. This is what I DO know. "Community" is a brilliantly funny, original and well-written show. Chevy Chase is an asshole.
Look, 6 years ago, Chevy's big gig was MC at Allstate Insurance's 75th Anniversary bash in Milleneum Park. I know, I worked it. It was SAD. They had to show video of SNL, "Caddyshack" and "Fletch" to remind the audience who this jamoke was.
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
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Say what you want, but he's a good writer!
he deserved to be fired just for those 3 episodes that aired last Thursday.
i have no concern for adults who resort to using twatter and other people to attack someone. and the "fuck you" chant in front of Chase's kids was more wrong than anything Chase could have done on set. fuck them both.
"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12
Dan Harmon was the heartbeat of Community. A fiercely creative genius of a heartbeat. He persistently pushed the superb cast to great comedic heights, making the show one of the most innovative and cerebrally funny programs on TV in a long time. I was hooked after viewing the first episode. Community soared to silly, rip roaring, quick-paced levels which made me laugh out loud many times. I watched some episodes repeatedly for that good humor natural high only shows like Community can bring. Revealing to the world what bullying cowards they are, NBC and Sony collectively and viciously sucker punched a hole in Community’s chest and tore out its heart, the genius of Dan Harmon. A body cannot live without its heart. Community was brilliantly funny with Dan Harmon’s steady heartbeat keeping this great show alive. Now that its heartbeat is gone, this show will fast track to an inevitable, unwarranted and unnecessary demise. Thanks (extremely sarcastic), NBC and Sony, for brutally butchering a superb show created by a genius. No wonder your network can’t rise above the gutter.
TAKE NOTE, NBC and SONY: Life is too short to kill this show due to in-house fighting, creative clashes or whatever tipped the scales to fire Dan. As a Retired Army Veteran, I'll tell you to suck it up, get Dan back ASAP and move on to allow him to crank out a solid Community Season 3. You owe it to the cast!
No sympathy. The prick was just getting his karma. He puts private conversations on the internet. Some executive just didn't want the firing discussion recorded and posted on tmz like the chevy chase stuff.
I don't even watch the fucking show anymore. Its pretentious but pointless. Maybe a new executive can salvage it.
WTF is "Community?"
Submitted by Phoebe on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:08pm.
I went to high school with Bob Greenblatt (head of NBC).
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Aniston is artistically, intellectually and reproductively barren.
Paltrow is a walking argument against nepotism.
I've been fired so many times that it doesn't even phase me. Most of the time you know it's coming. At least when you get fired you can collect unemployment.
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Well that's fucked if they didn't even bother to tell him, no matter what the reason was.
But there's got to be more to the story, and this caught my eye:
"...you can’t make my version of it unless I have the option of saying “it has to be like this or I quit” roughly 8 times a day."
Yeeeeeah, constantly threatening to quit is an excellent way to get your ass fired. And it sounds like they don't want "your version of it" anymore, anyway, Dan.
Um
You guys get that if you were full time and fired over the phone (depending on the state) you can sue, right?
I know a guy who was working part time in NYC, fired on his answering machine for being an ass (and trust me, he was an ass) who got a settlement.
I'd say maybe he's a proud little monkey judging buy that little monkey package he's popping out of those stylin shorts.
HockeyFan....that is just some sick shit. I seriously believe in karma though; that bitch will get hers one day. In the meantime, the other employees better watch their backs when she's around. She probably writes things down about everyone. What a creeper.
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Submitted by Mel-Tang on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 5:29pm.
MK, my old boss decided to call me at home, ON my freaking birthday, and fire me. I cried the rest of the day; I was so humiliated. That was back in my 20's.
Now I'm in my 40's. If this happened today, I would tell the hor motherfucker to go hang herself.
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I know how painful it can be to be let go-- but I think I would rather be called at home. I got "laid off" from a job I loved, all bc a misogynistic woman couldn't have any other women working there. She made many other women quit or cry or somehow got them "laid off". I don't know what the bitch has on the general manager at the place (it's a sports-related place, and most of the staff is men). Bad part was, the GM and I have been friends for over 25 yrs and I told him she was eventually going to get the place sued for unlawful termination, and all this ugly shit would come out, and I'd be the first in line to smack that bitch up.
I just would have rather been called at home...I went in an hour early bc my boss asked me to...I had no clue what was going on or why it happened. I cried in the parking lot of a Target for an hour, called my GF who said to come home immediately, and I found one of the guys from the place there when I got home. I was so embarrassed and humiliated I couldn't even speak to him. The wives of all the guys were furious and wanted to know why, bc they knew it was bullshit too. I would just rather have been called at home so I could lick my wounds in peace.
Sorry, dude.
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MK, my old boss decided to call me at home, ON my freaking birthday, and fire me. I cried the rest of the day; I was so humiliated. That was back in my 20's.
Now I'm in my 40's. If this happened today, I would tell the hor motherfucker to go hang herself.
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Lmao at: "My password doesn't work."
Lmao at the little monkey's t-shirt and shorts.
That's all I got.
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"Getting told your shit is fired is a little bit easier to take when you're in your panties and sitting on your bed with a bowl of coffee (you're out of clean mugs) in your lap."
LOL, MK, please tell me you don't drink it out the bowl like a cat a la Courtney Stodden. Finding out through a press release has to suck, but there are worse ways. I remember on the Chris Rock Show in the 90's (?) when Vibe had that talk show. Chris Spencer, who was the host, said he found out he was fired because his grandma called him one morning saying on the news they were looking for a new host for his show. Right after that he got a call from the network asking him to meet them for a breakfast meeting. Chris Rock said, "That's some Godfather type shit right there."
i'm torn. i love "community", but i love "happy endings" better. i know chevy is a dick, but he is clark griswold. what to do, what to do?
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Why are the suits at NBC so afraid to fire someone? It's not like they have feelings anyways. Sociopaths don't have them. And most high level execs are sociopaths.
When I worked for the investment bank, the head of our division was scary. He would act like a human being but he wasn't. Like he would ascertain that a person needed to hear a little humor or compassion so he would act it out. But it wasn't there. He was this perfect human specimen, tall and handsome and like Obama, he would walk around in his shirtsleeves to look relatable or something. He was a backslapper but even when he was joking around he was dead serious. Scary Machiavellian motherfucker. Ice water in his veins.
Who the fuck cares??
Yeah, I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank.
Firing someone like this sucks! They can't do it face to face and let him keep some dignity? Wusses! It's well deserved if he leaks more details... ha!
MK, that last paragraph had me howling! In your panties with a bowl of coffee hahahahaha I was expecting you to say you were eating the coffee grounds (personally, I inject them LOLOLOL) and office chair races, YES! Weeeeeeeeeee ;D
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Bring back BFF NBC! It was a perfectly fine show!
Show with a decent cast and concept that has never been as funny as it could be.
Probably a good move to dump this ass-hat.
Firing someone like this is a bitch move. But that's how gutless suits do things nowadays.
Well, Community won't last without it's creator, so bye bye to the show mid season next fall.
Community is my favorite show and Dan Harmon is a genius. He maybe a jackass but he's the most ambitious comedy show runner in TV and constantly went for it even at the risk of some episodes being less funny. I'm heartbroken and I don't want to see someone else impose their vision on my favorite show and characters. FUCK YOU NBC.
And like Rich Bitch I would ride him hard as well.
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"Revenge is sweet and not fattening"
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I will miss Annie's bewbs when Community airs the series finale.
I guess revenge is a dish best served by the ;apanese.
Mr. Chevy gets his whining, 5 Y.O. way and does it in his bratty, mean style. And call a medic for Mr. Perry. The Peacock Network is going to be cut off from credit after the unavoidable London Olympics numbers are posted, then it will crumble station by station.
I feel so dirty coz I would totally ride Dan Harmon so damn hard.
You sold them the rights you ninny.
Take your lack of balls and go home.
Though they should have given you a parting gift of tissues to get the sand out.
I love Community, so I'm bummed. Seems like the network is doing everything it can to kill this show without outright cancelling it. I'd be happier now if the season finale from Thursday was the end of the show. It wrapped up pretty much everything.
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I don't watch tv so all I know of this guy is he does not know how to work with people. I am not a fan of Chevy Chase, but I appreciate that he had the experience of seeing this guy fired. Can you imagine having your boss ask everyone to chant "fuck you" at you at the Christmas party? Then a couple of months later your boss is fired and is whining on twitter about his boss the same way he used to whine on twitter about you. That's perfect so I have to say this is beautiful. I think it's really rare that someone in Hollywood that is successful like this guy is, is enough of an asshole that he actually gets called on it like this. I guess he is some genius and the show is down now according to fans. Never watched it or heard of it except for this guy and Chevy Chase having drama.
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Good riddance. That show has not made any fucking sense since he signed on. It's a comedy. I don't know what was with his "dark" storylines, but that's what almost got it cancelled in the first place. Of course now that it's moved to Fridays it's gonna be done by mid season anyway, but at least we get those few extra episodes.
First Community is moved to Friday nights for next season, now this. My suspicions have been confirmed. Community won't be returning for a 5th season or possibly even finish season 4. You suck NBC!
Six seasons and a movie!
Is this the guy that had a falling out with chevy chase?
I guess Chevy hath spoken.
I went to high school with Bob Greenblatt (head of NBC).
Did he tell lies in HS?
Never spoke to him that I can recall. I just remember a pale skinny redhead kid.
Which one is Dan?
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With his grammar and punctuation, he probably shouldn't be writing or editing.
I don't recall any awkward goodbye parties when people got shitcanned; only when they resign. Having fired people and been fired, it's a shitty feeling--even when they or you don't care about the job anymore.
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