Community 1:10
We open in the cafeteria, where the Dean is announcing that the school is changing their name from Greendale to Envirodale to show how environmentally aware they are. He printed 5000 fliers with the new school name! How environmentally friendly of him. Side note, can you just change the name of your school like that? I would think you’d have to ask someone for permission.
Cut to Spanish class where Senor Chang is being a total b! He flips out because Annie doesn’t stop writing exactly when he says stop, and suddenly the class has a 20 page paper due, in Spanish, by Monday. Oh, and a quiz too.
The team nominates Jeff to talk some sense into Senor Chang, aka get the class out of the paper and quiz, so he agrees with a little bit of persuasion. He and Senor Chang start talking about how Senora Chang left and he’s real down about it, although he asks Jeff how he figured it out and Jeff mentions that he noticed Senor Chang wore the same shirt twice in one week. I thought I was the only one who notices stuff like that! This is a lesson: if you’re going to rewear clothes, make sure it’s at least a week apart.
Jeff does not manage to talk Senor Chang out of the paper for the entire class, but does get out of it himself, cept he has to go hang out with Senor Chang in exchange. To Jeff’s credit, he didn’t really want to hang with Senor Chang and wasn’t trying to only get himself out of the paper, but he’s Jeff and no way is he not going to take advantage of that chance!
The group kind of figures this out and gets upset, but honestly, what did they expect? Jeff is the most charming out of all of them, but he’s also the most self interested, so like he was really going to push for their best interests!
In the meantime, Pierce is helping Shirley with her presentation for marketing class. It’s about brownies, from what I can gather, and Pierce starts talking about how you have to offer the audience a sandwich. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but it did manage to make me hungry. And sad that I have no cheese at the moment with which to make a tasty sandwich.
Mostly to get out of hanging with Senor Chang on a regular basis, Jeff arranges for him to meet up with Senora Chang, and they get back together at the school music gathering thingie. It just occurred to me that it seems like Greendale has as many school dances and functions as Sweet Valley High.
Anyway, Senor Chang is happy about his wife coming back, feels bad about giving such a huge paper to the class, and revokes the homework assignment. But gives Jeff a paper of his very own, on taking advantage of someone in their sad moments, which is mildly unfair because like I said, Jeff didn’t start out selfishly this time. Everyone is so happy that they don’t have homework now, so they offer to help Jeff with his paper. It all works out in the end!
One thing I found hilarious was that Shirley pointed out to Senor Chang that they were all in beginning Spanish, so how on earth were they going to write a 20 page paper? Doesn’t that always seem the case in foreign language classes, you get assigned work beyond your skill level. Or maybe that was just me.
