Dan Harmon offers new Jeffrey Dahmer analogy for Community, which goes over about as well as you'd expect
Continuing the mission to bring back the Dan Harmon era of Community by saying as many instantly regrettable things as possible, Dan Harmon has followed his recent, instantly regretted comparison of the show’s fourth season to watching his family getting raped by likening that same season to rapist serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Much as those earlier comments were prompted by the proximity of Harmon to a microphone, so his latest were made necessary by the rare occasion of someone on the Internet criticizing Community—in this case, various people on the subreddit thread “Unpopular Opinions About The ‘Unpopular Opinions About Community,’” which Harmon actively sought out and participated in. Because without Harmon weighing in, the creation of a subreddit thread dedicated to criticizing the anonymously submitted opinions on a slightly larger Reddit thread regarding a niche television show might have been regarded as something less than significant.
Harmon’s reason for responding, other than the fact that he is fueled by self-loathing, was that he once again read someone saying that the maligned fourth season could be directly blamed on the third season—a “pseudo scientific observation” that Harmon says makes him “want to barf when I read it.” And so he did, producing a splatter of comments that contained another comparison of season four to a terrible crime involving family members—this time committed by a man synonymous with murder, dismemberment, cannibalism, and necrophilia—to add to his earlier, now rather quaint rape analogy:
Saying season 3 sucked is like punching my brother. I wish it wouldn’t happen but my brother probably deserved it, he’s kind of nuts. But I love him, you know? I don’t talk to him, but he’s my brother.
Saying season 4 sucked is like punching…let’s say Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s from my home town, but I didn’t know him and he ate 17 people.