The community character you forgot that Jack Black is playing

The first half of the “Community” season 1 was all about the show finding their balance. He constantly experienced different character dynamics to see what was ultimately worked before Stunning Gold with Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi). By The time the first “Community” Halloween episode cameThe show seemed to have hit its groove in full. The study group was now a perfect, dependent body with a comfortable repertoire that the writers of the series could always rely on. Perhaps that’s why, when season 1 of the winter holidays returned with “investigative journalism,” the writers decided to throw a huge wrench into the dynamics of the study group and see what happened. That wrench was, of course, in Jack Black.

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Black’s character was named a friend (no last name was given), and his main thing was that he was annoying. He spent the episode trying and unable to become part of the group, incapable of raising that they were not particularly similar to him. Most viewers felt a little bad for him at first, given that it was difficult to be an outside. But Black’s character was so forgetful and forgetful that our sympathy with him ran dry quickly.

The last nail in the coffin for the similarity of Buddy was the last time of the episode, which revealed that Buddy had begged another cooler study group to let him come in. (This study group was unexplained by Owen Wilson.) When the cooler study group accepts a friend as their own main characters on our main characters. Joining the Gang Study Group was a way for a friend to promote his social status, nothing more.

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Buddy was not all bad. His efforts to accompany the gang led to the Patly line, quoted in the Fandom Jeff (Joel Mchale) in the Fandom, “Annie’s Pretty Young, we try not to sexually.” He also feels quite arbitrary and meta for him to reveal that he has been in the Spanish class of the group all this time. It’s like when “Scrubs” gave that nonsense disclosure Kim (Elizabeth Banks) has been in the background of the show since the beginning; No one buys it, and the series knows we don’t buy it, but it’s fun to play along with it anyway.

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The most important part of Jack Black’s chapter of “Community” is the way it gives us an insight into how other students look at the study group. Later chapters in the series, such as the “competitive ecology” of Season 3 or “Alternative the alternative history of the German invasion,” revealed that the study group be considered by the rest of the school as a bunch of self-important jerks. Other students annoy that the study group believes that the whole school revolves around them and is even more irritating the growing evidence that the study group is right to come to this conclusion. (That is, how else they might have won All those paintball games?)

But in this early 1 season episode, the show is not yet ready to get so meta. The “community” world is still a bit based here, which we can see in the way that Dean (Jim Rash) has not started waltzing regularly to the study room with an eccentric dress again. In “Investigative Journalism,” the study group still goes to a school where they are regular students among many. They may feel like they have a unique club happening, but Owen Wilson reveals him at the end of them. The Black episode of “Community” brings the study group back down to the ground, but by the time we reach season 3, the long -left reality of the study group altogether.

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