If it came back, I get the feeling the overall tone of this sub would be “it’s just not the same.” That attitude was present as the show was coming to a close as well. They have all outgrown the podcast and the medium itself has changed so much in the last 5 years.
Dan seems to have a healthy work/life balance, Jeff revealed not long ago that he’s been sober for 6 months, Spencer has been doing well with his own podcast (That Happens) and also been touting a self help book that he’s benefited from. I don’t mean to imply that I think the show was what it was just because they were all unhealthy, but I think that in trying to recreate that rhythm they had, it would in a sense feel like a regression.
But hey, this is clearly all conjecture. I’m at a point in my life where I’m realizing I need to be looking forward more than looking back. So I’m probably just projecting my own shit here.
I think the core audience would love it, it would change because so have the people, but the show changed a lot from 2013 to 2019 and so have we in five years. They had the same spirit but there was clear growth. If you go back to Harmon's myspace stuff that's also an even more immature Harmon but the same spirit is there. If it returned, the anti-trump thread from the 2016-19 would be back with the added Musk twist which I'm sure dan has something to say about. There'd be an element of the season 6 of community era where he's back rebooting community again for the movie. Community people who never made it onto Harmontown could appear. It could be monthly, it could not even be a live show. It's just whether or not Dan wants to do something like this again. The last few times he's spoken in interviews he's always suggested quite strongly that he does miss the podcast but that he doesn't necessarily have to fill the void with a return to the podcast. He was experimenting with live streams from his workshop I think for a while which could work also. Jeff being sober at least for me would improve the show, there was a lot of subpar Jeff experiences when he was pre-shitfaced before the show.
Oh, I don't at all believe the show would be what it was if they all were mentally stable, sober, and healthy adults.
It was an awesome ride. I haven't done a relisten, and I'm having a hard time understanding people who keep it on repeat. It seems they prefer to keep clinging on to a community that has largely disbanded. I guess that means it's time for me to leave the sub, but I do like the occasional nostalgic reminder. And I am still quite invested in Spencers podcast.
Jeff is along for the lockdown episodes, and they do a couple of dnd segments, but it actually gets better when he leaves to go on tour. No shade on Jeff, but he tends to just tell a crazy hookup story or some other monologue, and while that's fun to listen to, it doesn't really spark a conversation.
You can follow Spencer through the chaos of lockdown, struggling with artistic direction, the loss of his awesome cat Jason, frustration over the political situation, a huge weight loss, and now maybe even finding love. In the Harmontown movie, I believe Dan says he realized that Spencer was the protagonist, not himself.
The recent anime binge club episodes where they talk about Evangelion are pretty cool, too.
Tried to connect to it a couple times. I love Spencer, he's awesome in Harmontown and Harmonquest and Great Minds--he's literally a home run in all of them. I just wasn't feeling the podcast though
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u/Philboyd_Studge 27d ago
I miss harmontown so fucking much