Community WTF Moments

It seems that once a season or so, someone on campus tries to film something. Whether it’s a documentary about family or a commercial for Greendale, the result is always the same: everyone goes bat crap crazy. Each time a movie is made it seems that the campus is plunged deeper into insanity and, now, it’s even to the point that the faculty aren’t immune.

Possibly, the most extreme case actually occurs when Dean Pelton is given $2,000 to film a replacement for the school’s outdated late night television commercial from the 80s. When Greendale alum Luis Guzmán agrees to be in the TV spot, things quickly go downhill as the Dean attempts to rewrite the script to make it worthy of the actor’s time. The Dean’s commercial quickly goes from a cheesy up all night commercial to an “artistic vision.” Everyone is sucked into the madness and even Jeff becomes dedicated to doom the project. When things look their worse, Abed finally gets involved and saves the day for the Dean.

Abed’s mental health has been in question since the very first episode of Community. While he’s very pleasant, it’s clear that he doesn’t operate quite the same as the other members of the study group. This never seems to stop him from leading a relatively normal life on campus, at least until season two’s Christmas episode.

Under the stress from an unknown issue, Abed soon sees the world as a stop animation special. Of course his friends are concerned by this development and ask professor of psychology Dr. Ian Duncan to help him. The group session turns weird when Abed takes everyone on a journey through a magical Christmas fantasy world. Of course, no one else can see what’s going on in Abed mind and their dialog in the fantasy world reflects it. The ends results is more or less an animated Christmas-themed game of Dungeons & Dragons.

Dean Pelton’s sexuality seems vague at best and it’s only compounded by his strange infatuation with Jeff Winger. Floating somewhere between hero worship and Single White Female, you’re never quite sure if the Dean wants to be Jeff’s friend or lover/murderer. One thing is for sure, Jeff has no interest in spending any time with Pelton.

So what does the Dean do after he blackmails Jeff into spending the afternoon with him? He forces Jeff to sing a duet at the mall’s make your own music video shop of course! What starts off as an uninspired karaoke version of Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose” quickly turns into a passionate medley that ties together the adventures of the entire study group. The end result is Pierce doing paint angels and a hitchhiking hobo singing about how “Jesus loves marijuana and drinking human blood.”

One recurring theme in Community is that Jeff is super competitive. Whenever someone threatens his alpha status, he is quick to respond either with wit or action. While Foosball might seem an unlikely outlet for his competitive nature, a couple of European guys trigger his need to remind everyone that he’s still number one.

As it turns out, Foosball was once a big part of Jeff’s childhood until a traumatic experience at the hands of a mean girl, named “Big Cheddar,” left him broken and with the nickname, “Tinkletown.” Shirley decides to help Jeff train despite her own childhood experience with the game. Soon Jeff realizes that his study group partner was the infamous “Big Cheddar” and a grudge match breaks out. The match becomes so heated it can only be properly expressed in... anime?