#Elroy's TV Show

[elijones94]

🚀 Go, Elroy! Go!! 🚀

[march32nd]

can't stop thinking abt this post from user @werewolfenthusiast

so all morning I have just been coming up with more and more examples I can't help it

"jeff's not a good person!! he literally describes himself as an 'exceptional narcissist'!!" yeah. this is nbc community. you know the bad person show

"britta's not a good person!! she says she's a feminist but she doesn't even vote!!" yeah. this is nbc community. you know the bad person show

"troy's not a good person!! look what he said about his best friend in pillows and blankets!!" yeah. this is nbc community. you know the bad person show

"abed's not a good person!! look what he said about his best friend in pillows and blankets!!" yeah. this is nbc community. yk the bad person show

"shirley's not a good person!! she tried to secretly baptize annie when she found out she was jewish!!" yeah. this is community. yk the bad person show

"pierce's not a good person!!"y. tinbcc. yktbps

"the dean's not a good person!! he's just a caricature of the predatory gay stereotype!!" y. tinbcc. yktbps

"señor chang's not a good person!! he's a power-hungry dictator who committed felony kidnapping!!" y. tinbcc. yktbps.

"hickey's not a good person!! he chained someone to a filing cabinet indefinitely over an accidental spill!!" y tinbcc yktbps

"duncan's not a good person!! he manipulated his therapeutic and personal relationships just to sleep with britta!!" y tinbcc yktbps

"frankie's not a good person!! she can't even help herself from being cruel to the dean when she tries to!!" ytinbccyktbps

"elroy's not a good person!! he made weird anatomically correct models of annie and britta!!" ytinbccyktbps

[blueberry-sleight]

special edition: less popular characters

sixteen <- ->eighteen

i fixed the links btw

[truth-is-relative]

Personally I'm rooting for Shirley or Abed, specifically Abed telling Jeff to fuck off at some point when he's being ableist

[spacetimer8031]

my favourite IT lady <3

[seizethedeansofproduction]

random community headcanons

Abed Troy and Annie have a wheel to pick what movies to watch and afterwords Abed will type up a paragraph long letterboxd review which he makes troy and annie check over before posting

on that note Abed's letterboxd has like thousands of followers. he's essentially a god on that platform

Sometime Jeff, Britta, and Abed will do things like going on roadtrips to stupid landmarks, go to interactive sort of museums, go roller skating, and have movie nights in order to give them all a piece of the childhood back that they never had

Britta asks Shirley to teach her how to cook and despite some initial hesitance from Shirley, she agrees and while neither would outwardly admit it, it's a highlight for both of them

Annie watches But I'm a Cheerleader one day and it completely changes the trajectory of her life

Jeff keeps a diary but not like a diary diary, whenever something good happens with him and the study group he writes it down to remember when things get bad. He keeps it in the same place he got the notes from his classmates when he broke(?) his arm (idk if he broke his arm but it was the thing he talked about in critical film studies)

After abed nags them all, the group + the dean do a d&d campaign one summer with Abed dming

Elroy gives the group his hand me down sweaters

Frankie and Jeff are drinking buddies

Annie never throws away anything from her childhood (she believes all her toys have feelings) so she still has a bunch of stuffed animals in her room. Upon asking she can immediately give you each one's name and full backstory

Abed and Troy collect funko pops religiously

Abed has little pages in a notebook dedicated to each of the study group members with their likes and dislikes and other things. When Annie finds out about this, she gives him little stickers for the notebook. Abed initially rebuffs her attempts to make his notebooks decorative, but eventually he puts a couple on the front and puts a bunch on Annie's page

[tom-hunter-summah]

i’m sorry but y’all don’t talk about school spirits enough for me. 

[jaimrennnn]

No cuz why did I think for a long time that Simon was the killer since he was the only who could see Maddie i had a theory that killers can see the ghosts of their victims

[community-pairings]

Greendale needs you!

We all know that Jeff/Annie, Troy/Abed and Pierce/no-one are the leading (romantic) community ships. But what about the other ones? (no pierce. I refuse to include pierce please don't make me inc-)

Vote so your favorite rarepair gets in! poll 1 poll 2 poll 3 (lowest in each poll will be eliminated)

Ships that are definitely in:

Abed Nadir  + Annie Edison

Abed Nadir + Annie Edison + Troy Barnes (Annie is romantic with at least one)

Abed Nadir + Jeff Winger

Annie Edison + Annie Kim 

Annie Edison + Britta Perry

Annie Edison + Claire

Ben Chang + Ian Ducan

Britta Perry + Jeff Winger

Jeff Winger + Shirley Bennett

Ian Duncan + Jeff Winger

Craig “Dean” Pelton + Jeff Winger

[the-dreamatorium]

Elroy or Buzz?

this is so hard tbh

Both of them came into the show towards the end- I mean buzz probably had a bit more character development in my opinion? but at the same time he didn't really fit within the group. Elroy honestly meshed better with the group but his personality was less developed

overall probably Elroy!

[believerinthetardis]

New Vid on my channel!🥰

[popculturebuffet]

I thought I'd try an interesting idea. Looking at how Community is, I thought it'd be cool to bring this question up: Favorite episode for Jeff, Britta, Abed, Annie, Shirley, Troy, and Pierce (I'll do the non-Study Group main cast members in a second ask to make it easier) on where they shine the best individually and why?

Okay finally getting to this one since I have a spare ten minutes: Jeff: Advanced Criminal Law. He has plenty of great moments but I think his bullshitting yet also genuine defneses as Britta's lawyer get to the heart of this guy. Jeff shines best when his heart has to show, that he's full of bullshit and axe body spray, but he's also a good man deep down despite himself and will do the right thing when pressed. He shines best comedically when just given a good withering put down or spinning out over his vanity.

Britta: Lawnmower Matinence and Postnatal Care. This episode is already one of my faviorites: it brings keith david into the series who damn well better be in the movie even just for a cameo, who shows his immense comedic chops as elroy, and has my faviorite line in the entire series

But while the a plot is one of community's best, the b plot is no slouch. While jeff stayed largely the same comedicaly, the bill murray type for everyone to rally around, Britta's evolution is intresting going from a bland as hell love intrest for Jeff who mostly just scowled at the others.. to deconstructing that as a hilariously pathetic hipster trying badly to be the moral center she was originally creeated to be and becoming a human train wreck the group sometimes fairly, sometimes not picks on. This late stage episode showcases that the best with the reveal her parents have secretly been subsiding her friends paying for her nonsense. Yet it's also a good character piece: While Britta is being performatively petty with her parents, even riding off on a trike while telling her parents not to infantalize her in what I consider THE britta scene and why this is here... it also gets as to WHY she's like this: her parents were strict, controlling and led her to being the conrarian mess she is, and she's understandably upset they both changed this late AND her friends can't accept she has valid frustrations. But I like them settling things: britta accepts their help and they geninely apologize for how they were. As you can see Britta works best as a mess.. someone who SEES herself as this big sister type, but is really just as flawed as the rest of her group.

Abed: This is a fucking hard one but thankfully like the rest of this my brain filled in the blank for me. Abed has a LOT of good episodes: as the series meta guy, he's the best vehicle for high concept nonsense the crew had. There's a lot of great stuff from his early breakout with his film for his dad, to his time as jesus, to "I'm a cat i'm a sexy cat". But honestly the best abed episode is abed's uncontrollable christmas. It gets to the real heart of him and Danny Pudi's splended performance: Abed's schitck goes way too far as he gets stuck in christmas and his friends have to help him out. It shows why he flees to tv: with a disapproving dad and a mom who left him, it's a source of comfort.. and finding out his mom no longer wnated him makes him shut down. It takes his friends geninely supporting him to make him see he dosen't need to escape.. that tv is nice.. but he can share it with his new family. It also has a lot of great weird shit. Abed is at his best in a LOT of circumstances: palling around with troy, when you tear him apart just a bit, and honestly feels like a better picutre of a neurotypical person than most. It's still a BIT tv autisim, but they lean off that early in favor of having him be a person: he hyperfixates on a ton of shit from inspector spacetime to the cape, has trouble with other people's emotins and get slost in his own world. It's exagerated because community is a live action cartoon at times, but they never stop making Abed feel like a person as much as a gimmick.

Annie: Virtual Systems Analysis. While this is a good abed episode, showing his mind in pieces and getting a good dig in at grey's anatomy, again a show i've watched all of up to the current episodes, it also gets to annie: her need to help people, her crush on jeff and why at the time it wouldn't work, and who she is. Annie like Abed is a good multitool character. Like Danny Pudi (And the whole cast really), Allison Brie is super talented, so Annie got to evolve from a vaugely defined character who was breaking down to a chill yet still type a person. She also plays off abed VERY well and Ig et why the shipping for these two was thick and frothy: Annie makes a good straight man while still being zany enough to kick off her own plots and she plays perfectly off Pudi and Glover. Giving the two a whole episode together was genius. You could see this dynamic as early as the psycological study which again, feels like an accurate depcition of autisim compared to a lot of what i've seen: Annie asked Abed to do something, so he did it. She's a strong character as the show goes on and this shows it off well.

Shirley: Comparitve Religion. It's one of only two shirley episodes I relaly like, the other being urban matriomony and the sandwitch arts. I love Yvette Nicole Brown, she's talented and does the roll well... but Shirely is easily my least faviorite of the greendale 7. It's not even close. Yvette Nicole Brown does a good job playing her.. but it's very hard to like her as 8 times out of ten, their focusing on her being a self righteous asshole who can't understand that being religoius dosen't make you a moral authority.

Comparative Religion uses this well, as her sermonizing is a problem: None of the gang is Christian like her and her passive agressive shit towards there religions grates and causes Jeff to lash out. While he DOES mend the fence by agreeing not to fight, Shirley realizes she needs to get the stick out of he rass ant takes a candy cane to a mans face. "It's december 10th!" Yvette Nicole Brown is, and I stress this, talented. I like her as a person. She just didn't get nearly as much to do as the others and as a result they tended to fall back on her sandwitch shop or her religion. Shirley works best when called on her shit or serving as the voice of reason.

Troy: Troy was hard to think of an episode for which is weird. Troy is one of the shows best character going from typical jock to loveable weirdo, with Glover having top notch comedic timing: a lot of the shows most memeable and memorable lines come from him: "HOw about I pound you like a boy", the that's racist exchange, the cookie crisp breakdown, the masturbation breakdown.. Donald Glover is REALLY good at having a hilarous breakdown, and of course TROY AND ABED DOING ANNNYTHING as pairing them up was genius.

Thankfully I did remember the one plot where Troy's not only mostly on his own but gets to shine, and partly because as a change of place he's a straight man. His time at Air Conditioner Repair. I mean the whole subplot is great from the good will hunting parody, to John Goodman as hte manical dean of the air conditionir repair school, but the climax is fantastic: with the dean dead Troy is thrown into a weird labyrinth of rituals, attempted murder and a contest to the death. It also leads to his best line,

It works thanks to Glover's great acting.. and the simple fact that TROY, who in this same season had a blanket fort war with his best friend rather than just talk things out, is the sane one.

Pierece: This one is easy. Intermmediate Documentary Filmaking. While it has a lot of good gags to it on it's own, patucally troy's freakout over lavar burton (Who also hopefully shows up for the movie). At it's core though it's a character piece for Pierece: It shows how fucked up he is as a person, putting everyone thorugh elabroate mind games to fuck with them, while also showing how he sees some of them giving annie a genuine gift and abed a neutral gift as he's neutral to him and vice versa. Piece has a valid reason to be pissed at everyone, how they treat him, ignore him and generally dispise him.. yet his going to such elaborate lengths to fuck with him kinda proves WHY: he's a bitter old man who rather than just call everyone out, decided to fuck with their heads and pretend to be jeff's dad and he's only not beaten to death ofr his actions, which he was warned about, because everyone else stops jeff.

Pierce can be hit and miss: his offensive grandpa jokes don't always land and he works best being weird as shit, like desnging the greendale human being or the college's theme song, getting high on paint thinners, making streets ahead a thing or other wacky nonsense. I"ll also say this: Chevy Chas eis talented. He's funny, he adds something to the show and it was nice to have him.. but unlike the rest of the cast who far as I can tell are wonderful human beings and talented, Chevy Chase is a giant combative prick, always has been always will be and while I like him as an actor, as a person he can go fuck himself and I want that on record.

[truth-is-relative]

Who was going to tell me that Elroy Patashnik is also the voice of Dr. Facilier???

[makaientjluvdaprince]

I just watched The Jetsons 1x09 "Elroy's TV Show"

[lesbicona]

why is season 6 of community your favourite /genq im just curious !! :]

the short answer is frankie

the long answer is: im very particular about endings, not in that i need them to have specific qualities (like sad or happy or epilogue-esque or what have you) but in that i need them to have narrative intent. we came close to living in a universe where basic story and basic sandwich closed community's story, and as much as i do genuinely like those episodes (mostly for comedy reasons), i only like them in the context of the full show we have now. i was not old enough to appreciate the show as it aired, but looking back i can see opinions at the time of the ending were divided. season 5 in general, honestly, seems close to season 4 in people's minds- in the post you're referencing where i expressed this opinion, season 5 received literally 0 votes. season 4 is controversial, but season 5 commits a worse sin- it's forgettable. (and i do like it, i really liked prof hickey which is truly a take on this webbed site, but this is my impression of the public opinion of it).

so in just existing, season 6 elevates my personal opinion of the show, but i mentioned public opinion in the paragraph prior because season 6 often gets lumped in with 4 and 5 as 'bad'. now while i have my own set of takes about even just season 4 (really guys, it's fine, it's just an ok season of tv in an excellent show, but it's not BAD) i will try very hard not to get into here, it is an objective divide between the widely acclaimed seasons 1 through 3 and the more controversial rest. my opinions of season 6 are very influenced by this, because it's like my little meow meow i must protect from the haters.

i feel season 6 closes up the themes of community, as evolved and changed as they are, in a satisfying way, and gives the characters themselves a logical narrative end. i especially enjoyed the themes of growing up continued from season 5, which are very pressing in a show about college. of course i realize this is a silly sitcom we're talking about, so i'm not saying that it put forward anything groundbreakingly subtle or even new, but any long-running show (especially one which could not keep the entirety of its main cast) that can wrap up so satisfyingly deserves praise.

and yet, because of the season 4 hurdle, which leaves many people with a bad taste in their mouth for the rest of the entire show, it is not as acclaimed as i think it deserves to be. i don't think people realize how much the show was probably going to change in season 4 even without dan harmon's departure. the idealized season 4 in people's minds seems to be season 3 part 2, which could not have happened for a successful season of television. seasons 1 through 3 are all already very different from each other despite being clumped together. yet people despise every single change to the show from season 4 onward indiscriminately. so of course season 6, with its many, many changes, is so far from season 3 that people blinded by the latter's glory cannot even see the former.

but most if not all of the changes season 6 brings are purely beneficial in my perspective. frankie and elroy are excellent additions to the cast; they are great comedic forces, with a strong role in relation to the others. they both play the almost-straight man jeff used to be, normal in reaction to most of the shenanigans of the original cast while bringing in their own insanity. they also represent the aging of the show. by bringing them in instead of, for example, freshmen students, the new, more grown perspective of the show is reinstated. the bits of their lives outside the committee that we get to see are interesting, funny, and bring them depth.

of course in particular im fond of frankie, who's normal to the point of pathology, whose line deliveries have a 90% chance of obliterating me on the spot, and who is just like me fr fr (a lesbian). she does not budge in her responsibilities, leading to her fluctuating role in the eyes of the cast, antagonist in some episodes and co-lead in others. her presence adds something new for each character to compare themselves to, for the better. in particular, annie, jeff and the dean are all improved because of her.

britta also receives some focus she hadn't since a few seasons past, and while i do not agree with the narrative framing of all of it (as clearly the show itself does not side with her in disliking her parents, as much as she, as a character, has proper reason to), the contents are extremely enjoyable to me. getting a chance to analyze the wannabe-therapist's relationship with her parents is perfectly ironic just as a concept.

season 6 offers some of my favorite comedy of the whole show. while my favorite line forever remains "i need help reacting to this" (which i saw you also enjoy <3), i was in tears of laughter at the end of a majority of season 6 episodes on my first watch. elroy's addiction to encouraging white people is absolutely unforgettable.

sorry for the Whole Fucking Essay! the medium answer, which you unlocked by reading the long answer, is: though perhaps not the objective best community has to offer, i love season 6 twice as fiercely to protect it from its undeserving haters. stan frankie, bring me 6 cans of olives, goodbye.

[warriorprincesstramp]

it's like you will watch one ok movie and then the worst thing you have ever seen in your life and then not watch the third because it's so universally known to be a piece of shit it's not even considered part of the series then watch the unofficial third movie which is also bad and your frenemy jack hunter is there but he's a little kid so you can't even be mad at him and then you fucking commit yourself to three seasons of TV and you hate yourself and then you put it on and woag the show is actually really good? and creative and weird with cool practical effects? and then you ride that high for like eight episodes until it shits the bed next season and the season after that and the best it can get after if surpassed your expectations SO highly is just being kind of ok and unoriginal. and you were so fucking close but so far but you also have to respect the love and integrity and creativity within the show and its passion for the horrific and the strange but well it's FUCKING bad and also every guy ever is there. peepaw kramer is there. kiara carrera is there. darry from jeepers creepers is there. janet from the good place is there. the nazi security guard from green room is there. the blue guy surrogate dad from guardians of the galaxy is there. dewey from scream is there. clear rivers is fucking there.... and there is so much slay in the flop and flop in the slay it gives you a headache and when it's over you're glad but so unsatisfied and now you have this sick comic book of it and you love it but you can't say that without sounding like a fanatic and you're not a fanatic creepshow 2 commited a crime against you it was fucking evil the first movie was so whatever you literally forgot you watched it the next day and tftd sucked ass. but well. you did watch three movies three seasons of tv read a comic book and have two specials on your watchlist. so what now. did i mention that they got fucking kiara carrera in there... they had elroy community in there! and that episode blew HARD! what am i supposed to do with that!