community nbc is such a trojan horse bc the first episode is basic af (to the point that I stopped watching and didn’t give it another try until years later) and then it’s like zombie outbreak. school wide paintball. claymation episode. dean with a dalmatian fetish who dresses in drag. chicken tender mafia. ex communicated spanish teacher who lives in the vents with a monkey. killer glee coach. betty white attempts murder. evil ! alternate universe characters. chevy chase in a cult. freaky friday body swap. law and order parody over the death of a yam. troy and abed in love. the asscrack bandit.... just to name a few
whenever I see the occasional critic that the Dean (community) is problematic lgbtq representation I think of that scene in the last episode of the show where Britta tells her hypothetical pitch for a season 7 where she says if she made their lives a show she’d change the Dean from an insane queer man with a gender and sexual identity that is apparently so complex he refuses to explain it to anyone or identify with any particular lgbtq label to a cisnormative trans woman and cut out “all that other stuff” to make the Dean more positively representative of what most normal queer ppl r like and the Dean looks aghast and horrified as if he was just called every slur in the span of a minute bcus someone literally just casually said to his face that she would choose to make his identity and personality more palatable and easy to understand so that the lgbtq community won’t get a bed rep bcus in a show he’d be “bad representation”. Like lmfao 10/10 no notes. Community really said unproblematic lgbtq representation meant to make the community look good has so many more offensive implications then insane queer characters who don’t give a shit and that’s on period
this type of troy barnes line delivery
they dont even know the “i can excuse racism” and guy walking in with pizza memes are from the gayest weirdest most mentally ill show of the 2000s that got cancelled twice and sent an entire streaming platform into bankruptcy
I love you so much tiktok tvc community. please never change.












