In the early days of the pandemic, when everyone was bored at home, I took an extremely comprehensive online personality quiz designed to determine your similarity to more than 1,600 fictional characters from TV, literature and film.
The question of whether someone should aspire to be like Jeff — a conceited, silver-tongued attorney forced to slum it at a third-rate community college after his law degree is revealed to be bogus — is a matter for me and my therapist.
The premise is deceptively ordinary: Jeff, smitten with his fellow student Britta (Gillian Jacobs), hastily assembles a motley study group made up of outcasts in their Spanish class, then convinces her to sit in.
The core study group has spectacular chemistry and gamely handles every odd detour, thanks to a cast that also includes Brie as a bookworm and reformed pill-popper, Annie; Glover as the jock with the heart of a nerd, Troy; Yvette Nicole Brown as the devout single mother, Shirley; and Chevy Chase as the prickly geezer, Pierce.
And like “The Simpsons,” “Community” has a knack for introducing zany characters as punch lines only to flesh them out later: Dino Stamatopoulos, one of the show’s producers, became a fan favorite as Star Burns (so named for his star-shaped sideburns).
This is a network sitcom whose second-season clip show is made up of entirely original material — a parody of a format typically used to save time and money that ended up being even more elaborate and time-consuming to make than a regular episode.
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In the early days of the pandemic, when everyone was bored at home, I took an extremely comprehensive online personality quiz designed to determine your similarity to more than 1,600 fictional characters from TV, literature and film.
The question of whether someone should aspire to be like Jeff — a conceited, silver-tongued attorney forced to slum it at a third-rate community college after his law degree is revealed to be bogus — is a matter for me and my therapist.
The premise is deceptively ordinary: Jeff, smitten with his fellow student Britta (Gillian Jacobs), hastily assembles a motley study group made up of outcasts in their Spanish class, then convinces her to sit in.
The core study group has spectacular chemistry and gamely handles every odd detour, thanks to a cast that also includes Brie as a bookworm and reformed pill-popper, Annie; Glover as the jock with the heart of a nerd, Troy; Yvette Nicole Brown as the devout single mother, Shirley; and Chevy Chase as the prickly geezer, Pierce.
And like “The Simpsons,” “Community” has a knack for introducing zany characters as punch lines only to flesh them out later: Dino Stamatopoulos, one of the show’s producers, became a fan favorite as Star Burns (so named for his star-shaped sideburns).
This is a network sitcom whose second-season clip show is made up of entirely original material — a parody of a format typically used to save time and money that ended up being even more elaborate and time-consuming to make than a regular episode.
The original article contains 1,284 words, the summary contains 255 words. Saved 80%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!