Dan Harmon hasn't given up on a Community movie, but he wonders: “Are you supposed to service a mythical new viewer?”

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“The obvious, dogmatic, practical, off-the-street answer is like, ‘No, you don’t. It’s fan service," says Harmon in an interview with Vulture's Good One podcast. "Why would there be a Community movie? Who do you think is going to walk in off the street and buy popcorn and sit and watch a Community movie like that? They deserve to be punished. Why are they doing that?' Saying that that person doesn’t exist is a lot different from asking yourself structurally if you’re supposed to design the movie for them, because there’s a new viewer inside of all of us. If every Marvel movie started with inside references to all 90 other Marvel movies, even if you had seen all of them — even if on one level you’d be like, ‘This is the greatest Marvel movie ever because all of the movies are in here ‘— I think that a part of your brain would be going, ‘Yeah, but it’s kind of not a good movie for this reason. It’s just speaking in gibberish. What does this mean?'”