Streets Behind: A Community Fanpod

At this very important milestone (the end of disc 1 of the Community DVD box set), we take a step back and reflect on the show as a whole so far. Join us for the easiest pop quiz ever about how we feel about the show, the characters, and the production up to this point.

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It's Dia de los Muertos at Greendale and the gang is trying on all sorts of costumes. Annie tries being assertive when she tells Jeff he can't skip her extra-credit Halloween party. Jeff tries being honest for once in his pursuit of Professor Slater, his statistics teacher. Shirley tries punishing Slater until she realizes she's really just mad at her ex-husband. Everything goes sideways when Pierce tries being young again and ends up tripping balls in a desk fort. Luckily, Batman (Abed) is there to save the day. Bust out the tiny candy traffic cones, folks! It's a classic American holiday episode!

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Community gets cringey in this one when Pierce helps the Dean design a post-racial mascot, but we love that this isn't a "very special" episode that addresses race once and the shelves it for the rest of the series. Somehow, Pierce and Dean Pelton agree on their horrifying design choices, but Jeff and Annie clash over whether Troy should play football for the Greendale Human Beings. Troy can be swayed on the small stuff, but ultimately Jeff and Annie both run up against The Zen of Troy - a man who knows who he is and where he's at. Meanwhile, Britta is consciously trying to change to be more open to mainstream femininity with help from Shirley in the ladies' bathroom. Matt and Sandi try something new as well - for the first time in this podcast, only one of us really loved the episode. Gasp! Listen to find out who only just liked it.

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The main focus of this episode is about Britta cheating in Senor Chang's Spanish class, but meanwhile in the background, the writers are doing some major world building. So many of the show's future developments have their roots in this episode. We see an almost familial relationship developing between Annie and Pierce as she encourages him to compose the Greendale school song. The Luis Guzman statue goes up in the quad. (Really?! This is only episode 5!) The dean makes his first dramatic entrance into the study room, and his first bad dean pun. Troy and Abed decide that friends don't mess with each other, and seal the deal with their first best-friend handshake. Jeff's big speech is actually a closing argument this time in Britta's poolside cheating trial, and on our side of the screen, Matt gives his own big speech about how fictional characters can fill a very real emotional void. Sh#! gets real, you guys.

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As Vaughn would say, this episode of Community is tight, but us? Not so much. We're all over the map in this one talking about the Duncan Principle, Jeff and Shirley's growing friendship, our own college friends who couldn't keep their shirts on, Annie's budding sexuality, Pierce's ear...noculars, and how Britta fell into the "Interesting Boy Trap." We find out that Matt totally would have played hacky sack with Vaughn, that Pierce can be disarmingly sincere, and that there is true social value in getting together with friends to talk about a TV show. So, join us over by the Greendale Stoner Tree. You're already accepted.

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Sandi and Matt begin to start starting seizing the day with Professor Whitman's ultimate blow-off class, which Jeff could totally pass if only he'd stop trying so hard at the wrong things, like crumping. We follow Abed into some surprisingly deep emotional waters, and we delight in Britta's fisticuffs, Pierce's voice commands, Annie's pizza etiquette and Troy's delicate sneezes.

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Matt and Sandi decide that in episode 2 Community has already tested out of Remedial Sitcom and proven itself as an Advanced Placement Comedy. We stop laughing at Shirley and Annie's hilariously misguided rally just long enough to break down Pierce and Jeff's horrendous take on what should have been a simple Spanish 101 assignment, and we discover that maybe every college campus has its own Starburns character.

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Sandi and Matthew dive into the Community pilot where we meet the study group and get our first look at the Greendale campus with Jeff, Britta, Troy, Abed, Shirley, Annie and Pierce. So join us! You're already accepted.

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Attention Greendale students - get a preview of what Streets Behind is like as your hosts Sandi and Matthew introduce ourselves and chat about how rewatching the TV show Community kept us laughing and connected throughout the pandemic.

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Attention Greendale students! Check out your new favorite podcast about the TV show Community.

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