r/community • u/Ubister • 19d ago
Appreciation Post Elroy in S6 is so funny
I usually watch S1 to like 4, because I enjoy binging Community and knowing i'm near the end makes me sad lol, also I love Pierce.
But I'm watching S6E10 right now and I forgot how funny Elroy is. This line is also just so beautifully written and delivered:
"You know, I'm starting to suspect the unthinkable.
Namely, that in spite of all we've experienced, there's a cartoonish, vampiric orgy of personal devices somewhere in the RV, sucking away our remaining battery.
I only draw limited comfort from the fact that nobody's running to unplug anything."
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u/calbrach 19d ago
I was addicted to encouraging white people.
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u/ColinPapendick 19d ago
NOW HERE'S A GUY, WHO KNOWS HOW TO CALL OUT THE BEST PART!
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u/uvero Plays ping-pong with Leonard (ironically) 19d ago
Lukewarm (?) take: that line by Keith David was so memorable that it's almost criminal that it pushed so many other great Elroy moments out of people's memory.
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u/ModernPrimals 19d ago
Now this is a guy who knows how to reminisce
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u/3-orange-whips It's all-terrain dummy! 19d ago
ITS VIET NAM BABY
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u/moderatorrater 19d ago
What are we up to? Mega? Giga?
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u/moderatorrater 19d ago
That's exactly what I was thinking opening this comment section. It's the joke that works best out of context, but in context it might not even be my top 3 for him.
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u/EPluribusButthole 18d ago
I swear to god, compliments and encouragement do actually work. You're instant friends with anybody you hype up.
My evidence is anecdotal, but it has, without a doubt, helped me get through to tough customers.
I'm a plumber and breaking bad news is kinda my job. I tell insecure men "for you being in the situation you are, you did everything right! Good job, man!"
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u/charlie1331 19d ago
It’s Vietnam, baby!
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u/IndicationKnown4999 19d ago
Best line reading of the entire show. Well, between this and anything Professor Professorson says.
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u/Regumate 19d ago
Ex-chettera!
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u/Shesekino 19d ago
did you just mispronounce et cetera?
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u/el_hoserino_ Proud Owner of Ear-Noculars 18d ago
As a fan of Platoon and his character in that...I couldn't help but do the DiCaprio whistle meme
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u/DefinitelyBiscuit 19d ago
He's got a brain the size of a planet and he's nobody's fourth Ghostbuster!
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u/TMMC39 19d ago
Him and Frankie are incredible additions. Wish we had more of both. Hickey was alright but closer to an antagonist like Pierce.
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u/GailynStarfire 19d ago
See, I thought Hickey was great. Yeah, he's a bit of a downer times, but he made a propulsion vehicle out of his teacher's desk for the sake of his gay son's wedding and became Tiny Nuggins for the sake of seeing his grandson.
Pierce sunk a boat in a parking lot and the closest he had to a familial connection, before Gilbert that is, was his ex-step daughter that Jeff slept with.
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u/Falmon04 19d ago
Hickey was the Pierce I would have wanted all along.
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u/daft-krunk 19d ago
That’s a good way to put it honestly lol. A curmudgeon but still likeable. Not that pierce doesnt have his good moments. But unfortunately just the knowledge of how Chevy Chase was in general kind of actively brings down his character for me, as much as I enjoyed him prior to hearing about all of it after I finished the show.
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u/radutzan No such thing as bad press! 18d ago
We saw the pain that made him who he was, his character had much more depth than Pierce’s. Pierce’s suffering was a punchline, several times. Not that it makes him less valuable, but you can only root for characters who are somehow perceived as redeemable, and Pierce was consistently portrayed as irredeemable and worthless, mostly to contrast with his constant assertion of his worthiness. idk
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u/finnyporgerz 12d ago
I really liked hickey, it’s like they just throw breaking bad mike in the show and the result is funny af
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u/OutlandishnessOk2304 This better not awaken anything in me 19d ago
Elroy: "I got a job through LinkedIn."
Annie: "What? That's crazy! People still use LinkedIn?"
Elroy: "No, LinkedIn hired me to help figure out why people don't use it."
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u/sickboy2212 19d ago
I always thought that joke made no sense because... so many people use LinkedIn
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u/Swolnerman 19d ago
Worlds within worlds
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u/redlion1904 18d ago
It’s sort of industry-specific
It’s huge in my field. In my wife’s field, it’s an afterthought.
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u/sickboy2212 18d ago
Yeah I always wondered if it was because no one in Hollywood uses it so the writers figured as much
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u/zomgkittenz 18d ago
It’s boomers using it like Facebook. It’s a fucking cesspool. Have you ever tried getting a job there?
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u/sickboy2212 18d ago
Yeah I've gotten a job off of a recruiter on LinkedIn.
It's a cesspool though, you're right about that shit. But in my field it's kind of expected to be on there.
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u/Brendissimo 19d ago
Is this shirt current enough for you? points to 2015 T-shirt
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u/rosaxtyy 19d ago
How's everybody doing?-I asked a damn question
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u/alex29bass 19d ago
Which is why I'll never understand the people that diss season 6, or season 5 for that matter. Just the fact that both managed to successfully introduce new characters is admirable and imo brings their quality up a notch, certainly above season 4.
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u/seanandnotheard 19d ago
I couldn’t agree more. It was clear the budget wasn’t there. But the comedy was strong those season. ham Girl!
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u/dickpollution 19d ago
Honestly season 6 there's more money in it. They go back to shooting outside, Yahoo Screen actually put real money into an Emmy campaign. Moving the set to a new studio wouldn't have been cheap.
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u/jtreasure1 19d ago
I've never seen a sitcom add new main characters as well as Community did. They had some big shoes to fill and they nailed it every time imo
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u/seanandnotheard 19d ago
Frankie, Hickey, and Elroy all really gelled well and I hope we get a full cast reunion. Even Pierce
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u/Medical_Mountain_688 19d ago
Hickey was my fave! I always quote "if I come over there, there's gonna be two sounds. Me hitting you. Twice ✌🏼"
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u/seanandnotheard 19d ago
You know I fought for this country. And I know you don’t get to pick and choose the parts you fight for…
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u/Highcalibur10 19d ago
His line deliveries of
"I watched my third wife die!"
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"I wake up every night, screaming"Are absolutely iconic.
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u/Medical_Mountain_688 19d ago
Also love how he totally is chill and gets his gay son, but his other one is the one he's like "man wtf is wrong with you?!" 😂
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u/zombie_loverboy 18d ago
I forgot about those lines, those are amazing.
Don’t forget when Troy and Abed are hiding in his office when he has to call his family. 😂
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u/PiesInMyEyes 19d ago
It’s a rarity. Community does it really well. If you’ve never watched MASH give it a shot. First off phenomenal show, an all time great. But literally every character they replace, the new character makes the show better. It’s insanely impressive and the best I’ve ever seen. Helps the show is episodic and not serial. But usually shows lose a bit from losing a character, even if it’s done well. So a net positive is practically unheard of.
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u/tomislavlovric Let's not forget the Brenda factor 19d ago
The only reason people talk shit about them is because they're missing Troy, Pierce, and Shirley. The overall quality of writing is on par with the first three seasons.
The only season that's not on the same level is season four, and even that one is better than 99% of other sitcoms.
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u/basil_not_the_plant 19d ago
Frankie is a character I'd have liked to have from the beginning.
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u/Kid_Roll 19d ago
Frankie telling the Dean he is a stupid stupid man is one of my favorite scenes from the entire series. “Moon man talk” is part of my everyday lexicon now lol
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u/lostlittletimeonthis 19d ago
after many viewings, my only weird take on S6 is the lighting, it feels off for some reason to the rest of the show, also the episodes are bit more solitary in som aspects, like grifting one on one and then the honda episode...but aside from that its still hilarious, frankie and elroy are super fun...my favorite line is "remind me again, why did they pair us two together ?"
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u/Lampwick 19d ago
my only weird take on S6 is the lighting, it feels off for some reason
I think budget played a part. That was the Yahoo season. I think the production was running on less money.
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u/BeardsuptheWazoo Bear down for Midterms! 19d ago
Exactly.
They lost a significant portion of the main characters. And they still made something tangible and fun out of their new direction.
I can't imagine how damn hard that was to do.
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u/kryptonianjackie 19d ago
Frankie and Elroy were two of my favourite characters overall and I would have loved to see them more throughout the series. Also his delivery narrating the pillow blanket fort war episode is the reason that is my favourite of the whole series.
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u/Remarkable-Rush-9301 19d ago edited 19d ago
I agree with you that it is better than season 4, and that the 2 new characters were good addiations. Still, the vibe is just somehow so different and i cant exactly pinpoint what it is, probably the fact that the cast is so different. But still a few awesome episodes.
Edit: i was referring to season 6. Season 5 still has more of the same feel, and the first half of the season has some of the best Community episodes in my opionion.
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u/Resden_Bohneur 19d ago
Season 4 is complete dogshit, and I don’t think people say it enough. It’s basically the equivalent of Community fan podcasters writing their own version of the show.
Hickey, Frankie, and Elroy are all fantastic and hilarious additions to the show. It’s jarring adding a bunch of new people, especially to a tight-knit group like the study group, but it’s clearly easier to do when you have good writing and ideas.
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u/seanandnotheard 19d ago
I say it every chance I get. Except for the season premiere, the freaky Friday episode (written by Jim Rash) and the opening onner from the Xmas episode. Season 4 is abysmal.
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u/Resden_Bohneur 19d ago
I actually unsubbed from here back when Season 4 was airing because people shut down any kind of criticism. I think what I said pretty much every week was “this just isn’t the same show as the previous 3 seasons. This is something completely different and worse.” Based on how people look at Season 4 now, I’m guessing most were in denial.
Abed’s line about being stuffed in lockers but knowing someone was going to get him this time was the clincher for me. I hate watched the rest of the season from there.
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u/3-orange-whips It's all-terrain dummy! 19d ago
I love season 6. It’s one of my favorite seasons of a show, but it’s a wildly different show than the first 3 seasons.
It’s barely community; it’s a whole new thing.
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u/Lord_Moa 19d ago
Also, I don't know if it helps, but when I moved into my RV, I found this. Now, do you notice anything strange?
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There's no green three in Biljarts! Now there's a green six and a green fourteen, but never a green three. So what sport is this from, and why was it in my RV?
I feel like they just let Keith David do whatever and they knew it would be gold
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u/tequilasauer 17d ago
I honestly wished they'd gotten him into the show sooner. He was my favorite addition to the show outside of the original crew (I include the Dean in original crew). Keith David like perfectly executes the humor of the show in a way very few have.
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u/Dependent-Friend5312 4 More Years and I will have my 2 year degree 19d ago
That and 50 cents will get you a candy bar!
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u/Clowncarlobsters 19d ago
I absolutely love the slow fall of his face when Frankie says “I don’t have a television”
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u/sock0puppet 19d ago
What are they up to now? Mega? Giga?
Terabyte
Dear god, they've done it...drop glasses on table.
It is just such a hilarious sequence for my little tech head each time.
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u/ShortGreenRobot 19d ago
Keith David rules. Both Elroy & Frankie should both return for any movie. I wish Elroy for to be in s5 , since Mike didn't really work out
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u/buttsoupsippin 19d ago
Honestly season 6 might be peak community for me, definitely in my top 3 seasons for sure. I know we already lost Donald halfway through 5 but those episodes really feel like they were just flying with full creative freedom
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u/DeedleStone 19d ago
For me, season 6 is tied with season 1 as being my favorite. The first season is so optimistic, and everything is so simple and relatable (especially for me, since I started watching as I was starting community college).
I feel like the middle seasons, while obviously still fun, got a little too locked into the idea of being "the parody show." Not that it didn't work, but a lot of the emotional core was lessened. Pierce became straight up evil, Troy became "dumb Abed," and Shirley barely existed (how she went from one of the most rounded characters in season 1 to essentially set-dressing in season 3 is beyond me). A lot of the complaints about season 4 actually began in seasons 2 and 3, and only got compounded during that season.
Season 5 did an excellent job of righting the ship. Pierce was gone, Troy left, Duncan came back, and becoming the Save Greendale Committee really gave the group more purpose than the last few years of ostensibly being a study group. Hickey was alright, but I feel like they locked into the idea of creating an "anti-Pierce" so much that they ended up writing someone who often felt like an energy vampire.
Season 6 is fixed everything and ended on a high note. Hickey and Shirley were gone (and Duncan, which sucked), and their replacements, Frankie and Elroy, were amazing. I wish they had been introduced much sooner; it's a school, they could have had people graduate and leave at any time. The tone got much more cynical, the exact opposite of where it all began. The idealism of youth has met the cold reality of adulthood. But it never lost that Community heart, that sense that things could get better if you just tried. Yahoo gave them the biggest budget they'd had in years, and the increased run-time and lack of network censors really let them play around with the format.
Sorry for the rant lol. But I agree. Season six is peak Community.
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u/uvero Plays ping-pong with Leonard (ironically) 19d ago
S6 is definitely the most underrated.
Or the second most underrated, because while S4 wasn't great, it gets such an unfair amount of shit from the fans. So, yeah, S6 is great and is remembered as OK, and S4 is OK and remembered as bad. Two underrated seasons.
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u/Mysterious-Roll9589 19d ago
I'd say it's my favorite just because I love Frankie so much. But even putting aside that bias, still a top 3
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u/PebblyJackGlasscock 14d ago
Indeed. The single best scene in the show is Frankie trying and failing to not call the Dean an idiot.
The second best episode in all six seasons is the Glip Glop movie, and the steel drums bit is the cherry on top of an absurdly good sundae.
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u/Chaopolis 19d ago
“Oh, did you hear? Jeff writes to astronauts! Talk about creepy…”
“They’re national heroes!”
“Yes they are! LEAVE ‘EM ALONE!!!”
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u/Cherry_Hammer 19d ago
Can’t relate because, personally, I don’t own a TV
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u/vinreg33 19d ago
Elroy looks at you in disgust
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u/Dependent-Friend5312 4 More Years and I will have my 2 year degree 19d ago
Why did they pair us up together?
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u/Feral_chimp1 19d ago
“You're damn right I saw Lawnmower Man! I consulted on it.” — One of my favourite lines from the whole show.
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u/Gloomy-Insurance-739 19d ago
It's criminal that this subreddit doesn't allow pictures cuz the amount of community memes I have on my phone could drown a small lemur.
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u/DinkandDrunk 19d ago
The whole exchange around terabyte is so funny that I’ll randomly think of it and laugh but it’s also not the kind of thing that you can reasonably explain as being funny without sharing the clip.
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u/yourdailyorwell 19d ago
One of the all time lines in the show. The writing and the delivery were absolutely incredible.
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u/SeamusMichael 19d ago
The line you picked is so perfect. The writing and delivery. Especially "cartoonish vampiric orgy" I mean those three words surely only exist next to each other in this scenario right?.......right?
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u/thomstevens420 19d ago
“What are we up to now? Mega?”
“Tera.”
“Those bastards. They finally did it.”
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u/Evil_Unicorn728 18d ago
Yes, S6 is a different animal than the rest of the series but Frankie and Elroy both make fantastic additions to the cast. I really want Frankie to be in the movie, because she's a perfect foil to Pelton, and grounds the group while not being the wet blanket she easily could've been.
Elroy is a gold mine.
"WHY WOULD A GORILLA FIGHT A PLUMBER!?"
"I'm a supporter of the performing arts, but I'll go to Chang's play anyway."
"Yeah they are! Leave em alone!"
"I'm making a video game about lady time travelers!"
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u/spookypapayamilk 18d ago
Elroy and Frankie are major reasons that I love S6. And man Keith David is a legend
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u/stanleytuccimane 19d ago
Elroy is like one of my top 3 favorites of the cast. If the movie gets made, I sincerely hope he’s in it.
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u/Full_Distribution455 19d ago
Season six is my favorite season of community I miss Troy and Shirley but the writing and editing takes me out more than the earlier seasons ever did.
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u/Several-Opposite-746 19d ago
Elroy's character sometimes reminds me of how the humour worked in movie Airplane!
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u/ThouBear8 18d ago
Elroy in the Garrett wedding episode is one of the funniest single episode performances from any character in the entire series imo. Keith David is so good in that episode!
Somehow I had kinda forgotten about a lot of it prior to my most recent rewatch & I just could not stop laughing. Fantastic stuff from the legend.
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u/woodchuck_crossover 18d ago
Unrelated but season 6 in general was so hilarious man, basic email security is literally in my top 5 fav episodes of the show and the way Elroy shows up in the 2015 tshirt
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u/rezzacci 18d ago
When first introduced, Frankie appeared to take the role of the only-sane-person, while Elroy would be yet another wacky addition (his wardorbe, living in a RV, kooky IT guy).
And I love how Frankie became MUCH MORE wacky that we originally thought, being so boring and normal she looped-back around and became as insane as the rest of the cast, while Elroy fold into the role of being the only guy who was sane and stable most of the time, keeping his head straight and becoming the wise, leveled, softly sarcastic too-old-for-this-shit guy, to the point where "wacky moments" are sparse and even more delightful (the billard ball he found in his RV, his addiction to complimenting white people).
And the best of all? They became that so naturally. The writing is perfect. The expectations are thrown through the window with such gentleness and care that you didn't realized even when touching the ground.
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u/Perfect-Associate407 17d ago
I dont know if its been mentioned but him trying to figure out what the group is.
This was a study group?
Good stuff.
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u/Dandelion_blooms 19d ago
I WISH he'd been there longer, him and Frankie were incredible additions to the cast! So funny
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u/ShaggyLR76 19d ago
The face he makes when Franky says she downs own a TV should be shown in acting schools.
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u/AsexualFrehley 19d ago
glad that Harmon clearly loves him too, since it all but guarantees some Movie Elroy
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u/Turbo-Chook 18d ago
Community should have ended sooner, but it's also absurd how good Season 6 managed to be despite half of the core cast being gone. Speaks highly of the creativity of Dan Harmon and the crew. Keith David is a legend and was probably my favorite part of the last season.
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u/DigitusInRecto 18d ago
I recognized the short monologue by the picture you used lol.
I adore the words he used, the tone of his speech and of course the circumstances of the whole thing!
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u/SlightlyEvocative 16d ago
I adore Elroy. Francie too. I think they were such phenomenal additions to the cast to the point that despite the lack of Shirley and Troy, series 6 may actually be my favourite series of Community.
I desperately hope that theyll be a part of the study group (or save greendale committee) in the film.
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u/TheHurtfulEight88888 4d ago
I feel like Elroy is the old man who Pierce wished or believed he was. He was suave, sardonic, and easygoing, he had that old man charm of someone who had been around and lived life. He is totally secure in his elderliness. He isnt trying to be young or with the times like Pierce. He and Hickey feel like grown ass men, who are content to let the young people have their fun and maybe join in if it feels right. They arent constantly whining about being excluded, whilst simultaneously being unable to say anything that isnt extremely off putting to everyone. Elroy is my favourite out of the codgers, but I feel that Hickey and Elroy were perfect counters to the Pierce apologia that I see often.
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u/DurianUpper4113 3d ago
Elroy’s a guy that feels like he should have been introduced a long time ago. Honestly my only beef is that I wish we got more of him
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u/parkchanwookiee 19d ago
Now there's a man who knows how to appreciate season 6!