It is well known that many schools, due to a lack of funding, have had to cut back on their art departments. As a result, many young people today don’t have the benefit of learning about music in school. That is why it is so great to see Community, a show about people attending community college, have such an emphasis on music. OK, so maybe Community doesn’t have much of an educational emphasis, but it has had some very memorable musical moments.
Jack Black has a lovely voice. That is mostly overshadowed by his funniness and the fact that he sings about kielbasa sausages and sexing up lady types. His guest role in community would not have been complete without inappropriate comments, awkward silences, and a brief musical interlude. All three of these things were supplied, mostly when Jack Black sang a little song about how much he liked Annie’s posterior. That takes care of the brief musical interlude and inappropriate comments. Then Jeff informed Jack Black that Annie was young and they are trying not to sexualize her,leading to an awkward silence. It’s the trifecta!
4) Britta is a “B”
If you have ever been on a college campus, you have probably run into the chill bro on the quad singing and playing his guitar. Vaughn is the resident chill bro at Greendale Community College, and he has moved beyond just the guitar and has his own band. He uses said band to take out his frustration when he feels that Britta has betrayed him by showing her friends the love poetry he wrote for her. The best part is Pierce helps to write the song called “Gettin’ Ridda the Britta” by adding in the line “Gettin’ ridda the B”. I assume the B is just short for Britta and is nothing obscene. Community is a family show.
3) School Song by Pierce
Pierce is a self proclaimed genius in just about every field of knowledge. His self proclamations don’t really help the fact that he seems to be slipping towards senility. He is pretty good at convincing others that he has some knowledge of different topics, and he manages to get Annie to let him write the new school song for Greenwood Community College. He finds out quickly that he does not have as much musical talent as he thought. In the end he does get a song made, even though it is just random words to the tune of Bruce Hornsby’s “That’s Just the Way It Is”.
2) Interpretive Dance
Troy is the starting quarterback at Greendale Community College. As such he has a very manly reputation to maintain. Thus it is understandable that he doesn’t want his friends to find out that he prances around in black spandex during an interpretive dance class. He goes so far as to drop the class before a recital so his friends don’t see him dance. However, when one of his dancing friends freezes on stage, Troy rips off his jeans to reveal the black tights he must always be wearing underneath. Together they dance their way to victory and Community teaches us about the importance of friendship.
1) The Spanish Rap
There is a reason that Spanish is known as a romance language. No matter what someone says in Spanish, it sounds beautiful to those of us who don’t actually know what the words mean. Abed and Troy proved this fact when they spontaneously started to rap in Spanish. I have to say Abed has a surprisingly good flow, and Senor Chang would be impressed by their vocabulary. While they didn’t create grammatically sound lyrics, it still sounded great. Besides, it was rap. It doesn’t have to make sense.
