Did you hear about the time NBC tried to kill Community’s D&D episode?

“ They [ the studio and the connection ] were so disquieted about the crime of this instalment having been write . The note school term as a whole was preceded by a 45 - hour period of them walking around the lot whisper to each other . They told me they would come up to my berth and meet me in camera . When they come up , I had the director and all of the writer in the office with me , because I was terrified . They sit down down , and they said , ‘ Look , where do we embark on ? ’ I could n’t conceive this was materialize . I was like , ‘ This is diametric of how you should experience right now . This is a bang-up sequence . We ’re going to get a 1.7 no matter what . We will build up our ratings in other elbow room . The episode is not about acknowledgment cards ; it ’s not about Hilary Duff . It ’s going to get the same numbers . There is a ethnical figure to a collide with show . We have to turn out to mass that we ’re open of good things so they can trust us , so that we can have a kinship . One day we will either be a highly rated show or we ’ll be scratch . It will not have to do with this mo . This episode is good , the story is salutary , these characters are good . Anyone who does n’t tune in because the commercial says they ’re run Dungeons & Dragons , it ’s not my fault . It ’s not on me . ”

“ It was such a depressing bank note session , because they did n’t even have any notes on the story . They just did n’t desire it to exist . I took a photo of my oculus take home that day at 3 p.m. because I was leaving work early . I bet in my rear sentiment mirror , and I was crying . More than crying , I was red - eye , tears streaming , weeping . And I was cry out of self - pity and defeat , like a child weeps when he does n’t understand his parent ’ rules . ‘ Why ca n’t I have ice cream when I ate my liver ? ’ I take in a photo of it , so I could show it to them between season , because as I told my girlfriend when I scram home , ‘ I conceive I ’m move to have to quit my own show , because I ca n’t function under these circumstance . I ca n’t be this proud of something that the people paying me to do it are this ashamed of . It will never work . We ’ll never achieve anything . It ’ll never connect . ' ”

– Community administrator producer Dan Harmon , excuse to The AV Club how NBC almost killed the mindbendingly awesome episode“Advanced Dungeons & Dragons . ”

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