I was just thinking today how underrated this episode is and how well they did an episode about someone who could "come out" but still doesn't even know how to put into words what they would come out as
I don’t think I even realized the background stuff. I feel like dean has a whole background of Easter eggs season after season I never realized they kept adding to.
Honestly, I don't think that the Deans sexuality even has a name. It is beyond the realm of your ordinary, garden variety sexualities. His is a new species.
@@ewwpoorpeople5684 ironically I’m also asexual (this is a quote I saw on tiktok) but I’m also biromantic and very kinky. Basically I’m a mixed signal.
@@devinxoxo8350 a couple things: 1) there are non-sexual forms of BDSM (e.g. spanking) which are still considered kinks but aren’t inherently sexual. 2) someone can have a sex drive, sexual preferences, and enjoy sex and still be asexual. Asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction, not a lack of pleasure from sex. Some asexual people are sex favorable, meaning they enjoy sex but don’t feel sexual attraction to specific individuals. Personally, I’m sex averse, meaning I don’t want to have sex.
I loved this show for giving me permission to not categorise myself and pointing out the fact that categorising oneself within a group limits your individual freedom of expression by making you responsible for how that group is perceived. It’s way easier to like what you like when you don’t take labels. Thanks, Dean. You taught me the most important lesson I’ve ever learned.
@@Suchwerewolf always remember: labels are descriptive, not proscriptive! They describe, they don't define. You can be whatever you want to be, and labels are nothing more than a convenient way to summarize that. As for "making you responsible for how that group is perceived", like Troy said to Shirley in the first paintball fight, "I am not an ambassador." The responsibility for how a group is perceived is on those doing the perceiving.
Of course he's being ironic. Everybody knows the Dean has a crush on Jeff, just as much as every normal human being is an empath. If you don't feel empathy, that's the literal definition of a psychopath
I loved when Jeff and The Dean had moments like that, they actually had a lot of fun together and despite Jeff pretending otherwise he obviously did care about him, along with everyone else at Greendale❤
@@AlessandroPioltelli I love them both and i find them equally funny, but i think Holt is a better queer character because he turns every queer character stereotype on its ass and has better character development.
Only one I believe you forgot: “And yes, this is a ladies Uncle Sam outfit, it’s my sisters, it was last minute” “I wonder if that’s the same sister who emails me to ask if I think her brother is cute”
The way Rash plays this character...it's uniquely tasteful. It's shamelessly over the top and yet every second is artfully crafted and nuanced. First watching the show I dismissed him as a "haha, because gay" type character. Maybe that's how it started. But he really is talented.
And the proof of the pudding: the Dean / Rash at the end of S5E2, pressed against the study room window, thinking that ridiculously, wonderfully poignant homemade French torch-song: "like the sailors who smoke cigarettes by the canal..."
Yeah I’ve been thinking about this recently and it’s interesting. He has elements of stereotypical gay characters in sitcoms but he’s given more layers that make him feel fleshed out. He also has some amazing lines and his character is really likable
I'm convinced the olives thing is so that Jeff always relates olives to The Dean for the rest of his life. It's basicaly Dean making sure he lives just as rent free in Jeffs head as Jeff does his.
You know this the first time that I noticed that the "vision board" was a running gag or that after he watched that dalmatian video his office progressively got more dalmatian decorations throughout the show lol amazing little details by the crew
I love that Dean Pelton was representation for the "weird" side of sexuality and gender expression. The fact that his identity doesn't get covered by traditional labels, consistently confuses everyone around him, seems to ebb and flow and change AND is never presented as "wrong" or "silly" but instead as 100% OK is marvelous representation for those of us in the LGBT community who have similarly hard-to-define identities or struggle with labels and explanations. Truly A+ queer rep, we need more characters like Dean Pelton.
Personally I felt like it was trying to make queerness a joke like the homophobic/transphobic trope where the LGBT character is there to be made fun of,, but I still like the character anyway lmao.
@@thebuilder5271 his queerness itself isn't the joke (I think the gay dean episode best shows this point ) tho certain things somewhat related to it is like his weird kinks and obsession with Jeff are tho those same traits could very well be applied to straight characters and it could still be applied as a joke....
@@thebuilder5271 He's a character who has jokes made at his expense, but that's literally everyone in Community. He's never singled out, never MORE joked about or at than literally anyone else in the show, but also never LESS. So his sexuality is not the joke, but it also isn't exempt from the same level of fun-poking as everyone else. Pitch-perfect representation: equality.
@@bigdongkong1854 I wouldn't say we look up to him but when this show was made this character would of been one of the first characters that represent a person with gender expression like this. The Dean isn't actually the greatest person as he sexual harassed jeff in a way, like if he was straight and Jeff was a woman it would be viewed very differently, also the Dean has been shown to be racist many times in the show. God this is a long comment sorry
“None of your business and barely the whole truth” is also how I respond whenever others assume my sexuality 😂😂 I love Dean and by extension Jim Rash for all the ambiguous queer representation he’s given us
They also have props representing the different episodes. Like the RC on the table is referencing the trampoline episode, or more accurately the few days before it happened when Troy and Jeff were really into RC cars
It's so interesting the way you can tell that all of the touching of Jeff was super choreographed and he was trying to play it off as casual Incredible acting
One of my favorite bits is Jeff and the Dean silently talking while Frankie is speaking because as much as Jeff doesn't want to be friends with the Dean, they are lowkey besties
Dean is ridiculous, mellow dramatic, and often a control freak, but he's also legitimately hardworking and genuinely cares for Greendale with all his heart.
So, was the portrayal of the dean's sexual harassment of Jeffery as humorous deeply troubling or is he a fantastic character who brings life to the series? Possibly both!
Yeah that's exactly what I thought watching this lol, it's like a lot of his personality is the tired trope of the depraved gay character played as a joke, but there's also so much about him that's fantastic, so I'm kinda conflicted.
Whether is it harassment or not depends on how it makes the other person feel and in the case of Jeffrey he's at best annoyed by it not even in a serious way and just shrugs it off it has zero effect on him psychologically so harassment is an overstatement. However, let's say the dean does the same thing to another person and this other person happens to be vulnerable to this sort of advances it makes him uncomfortable, uneasy and afraid if said person expresses these feelings in any shape or form and the dean does not care and continue then it would harassment point is not all actions affect everyone in the same way humans are pretty compex creatures to simply put them under one label.
@@yanieelidrissi2562 That may add up in real life, but this is fiction. And it may not be harassment, but it is behaviours deeply associated with harassment. The dean invades Jeff's privacy by going into his emails, blackmails Jeff to spend time with him, constantly touches him, and all this while he has power over Jeff--first as his dean then as an employer. Jeff may not react significantly--so maybe it isn't harassment--but I'd argue this is more an issue of how the dean as framed as not a threat (probably relating to his being a LGBT+ man) and Jeff as the a male protagonist, who traditionally shouldn't be swayed by his advances. This unintentionally normalizes these behaviours and may even contribute to a culture were men are not comfortable coming forward with harassment.
@@supermelon928 It was about the dangers of turning a person into a symbolic icon for a group of people, not about representing people who can't find labels that fit them. It's the same reason that Abed was never given a specific diagnosis. Giving characters specific identity labels allows for fans and non-fans to project their own biases about those identities onto that character. For people who identify with that character, any step outside of that label can feel alienating and misrepresented. For people who are bigoted against that character's identity, they'll look for any excuse to demonize it. Both completely dismiss the nuances and complexity of...being a human being. It's dangerous in fiction but even more dangerous when it happens in real life and it happens with race, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, etc. It is forced representation, not HOLISTIC representation. Dean being forced to identify as just gay in that episode shows how turning yourself in to a public symbol for "representation" strips one of one's autonomy. Everyone, both gay and non-gay, thought they had a say in how he lived his life and the choices he made. And yes, it really is that deep. Frankie explicitly states it and she's right. Sexuality labels are also hard for me like both you and OP have stated. But the reason they're so hard because people are so god damn obsessed with over-taxonomy. They treat labels like boxes that one must fit into exactly to be allowed in, but the size of the box is different for everyone trying to gatekeep it so no one can truly fit inside. So, they over do it with subcategory after subcategory so everyone can fit into their own little alienating boxes. They should fit like badges that anyone can wear anywhere on their body without it being the only defining thing about their identity. They should be allowed to wear any badge that fits them by their own understood definitions and lived experiences without feeling like an unworthy imposter for not fitting in the box the "right" way. If I tell you and someone else to imagine a tree and to then draw it, you won't draw the exact same tree as them. And tomorrow you will not draw the same tree you drew yesterday. The word "tree" runs through the filters of your specific personality and your life experience. Forcing someone to draw a tree the exact same way as you is forcing them to ignore their own thoughts and experiences in favor of your own. That is the issue with forced representation, it allows for no difference or complexity; it creates stereotypes, not human beings. So yes, Dean Pelton and Abed do represent me in some ways but they're not made for me and me alone. They don't wear all the same badges as me. They don't draw the same trees as me and I shouldn't expect them to. If they were labeled as "just gay" or " just autistic" other people could gatekeep them and shut me out and the parts of me that belong with them would feel severed off and detached. Sorry for going on a rant. I feel very powerfully about the show and that episode in particular and I get triggered when people over-simplfy it to fit their comfortable narrative.
Three things. One, Dean Pelton liberates us all. Two, I have a theory Jeff hated Mr.Rad so much because he was jealous. Three, Dean's obsession with dalmatians stems from his love of firefighters.
its funny how the characterization just builds up over the quick jokes and screentime. like the dalmation thing slowly developing over the first season and then the finale he invited two people in dalmation costumes 😂 hilarious
I'm 5 minutes into this and I'm predicting that half of this video is him thirsting over Jeff. Edit: After finishing the video I'm thinking at least 60%.
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He is beyond Pansexual
He is beyond sexuality
He is beyond it all
He is Deansexual
Sexuali-dean
His reaction to the city college Dean makes this so much funnier
Best comment here...lol
What a redeaning sentiment.
Wouldn’t that imply he’s only attracted to deans
"i make gayness looks like Mormonism" gets me every time
I happened to read this comment at the EXACT time it was being said in the video lol
And that’s…wassup.
That should be my yearbook quote
wt does that even mean
@@mattlai443 mormons have a reputation for being very kind, good people. Kinda like the Canadian stereotype.
Probably the most underrated actor on the show.
This man gives 500% every time.
He nails it
Every bloody time!
He is un-dean-rated
I mean he has an Oscar so he isn’t that underrated
Jim Rash was easily one of the greatest casting decisions of all time.
"Gaaay marriage." While waving a chainsaw is a whole mood.
And dressed as a devil
The true gay agenda
Annie's reaction is soo hilarious too
🤢🤢🤢
Needs to be a currently circulating gif
"I'm not openly anything, and gay doesn't even begin to cover it." HOLY SHIT HAHAHAHA
I was just thinking today how underrated this episode is and how well they did an episode about someone who could "come out" but still doesn't even know how to put into words what they would come out as
@@supermelon928 IKR I just watched it yesterday and I was so impressed. This show has come a long way in terms of discussing sexual identity.
I've never related to a line until i heard that one and I don't even know this character.
That's favourite line of mine. Also an accurate descriptor of me too.
i love how the 'this better not awaken anything in me' scene is put after a scene in which the background is entirely dalmatians, lmao
I don’t think I even realized the background stuff. I feel like dean has a whole background of Easter eggs season after season I never realized they kept adding to.
2:04 dear god he even has dalmatian pillows
@Meghan M. Really??? I need to rewatch the entire show.
After that moment, if you watch the show, his office slowly gets more and more dalmatian themed stuff. It's hysterical.
I noticed it right away. I feel like I HAVE to watch the show now to see more dalmatians Easter eggs. Truly a gay Cruella De Vil.
i love dean for being the (gay doesn't even begin to cover it) representation he is
He's deansexual
@John Roberts what kind of people?
@John Roberts i see. you're wrong. the dean is loved
There's literally an episode of Community where the Dean says he doesn't wanna be anyone's "representation" and yet you still type this.
@John Roberts you should take a step back and think about what you’re writing, because you clearly have no fucking clue what you’re talking about
"Let me get this as straight as I can get things."
I will never stop laughing at this.
With the hand on hip and nodding of understanding I can’t
Honestly, I don't think that the Deans sexuality even has a name. It is beyond the realm of your ordinary, garden variety sexualities. His is a new species.
4D sexuality
Its wingerialty
@@andreasredclift2437 4D chess sexuality.
Pansexual literally means everything lol
He’s just into a lot of kinks I guess
“Sometimes people ask me: are you homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual? And the answer always will be that I am simply sexual.”
As an asexual, the first half is the story of my life. The second half is the story I pretend is my life
@@ewwpoorpeople5684 ooof, words to live by
@@ewwpoorpeople5684 ironically I’m also asexual (this is a quote I saw on tiktok) but I’m also biromantic and very kinky. Basically I’m a mixed signal.
@@coena9377 If you have kinks you’re not asexual because kinks are inherently sexual, they are literally sexual preferences.
@@devinxoxo8350 a couple things:
1) there are non-sexual forms of BDSM (e.g. spanking) which are still considered kinks but aren’t inherently sexual.
2) someone can have a sex drive, sexual preferences, and enjoy sex and still be asexual. Asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction, not a lack of pleasure from sex. Some asexual people are sex favorable, meaning they enjoy sex but don’t feel sexual attraction to specific individuals. Personally, I’m sex averse, meaning I don’t want to have sex.
I love how they dressed him with slightly oversized shirts to make him look tiny when in reality he has quite the athletic physique
Word. Whenever he wears a dress you see his back like "hol up... waitaminute..."
Yea caught me off guard when he was doing his tango. "Where'd all that muscle definition come from?"
joel is also like 7 feet tall next to him lmao
the scene where they're questioning the implications of what Frankie said about her sexuality is peak lmao
I love how they both immediately become Nana's with their body language trying to convey their confusion to each other.
It was one of my top favorite moments in the whole series because they had a bonding type of moment
One of my favorite scenes in the wholse show tbh
I loved this show for giving me permission to not categorise myself and pointing out the fact that categorising oneself within a group limits your individual freedom of expression by making you responsible for how that group is perceived.
It’s way easier to like what you like when you don’t take labels. Thanks, Dean. You taught me the most important lesson I’ve ever learned.
@@Suchwerewolf always remember: labels are descriptive, not proscriptive! They describe, they don't define. You can be whatever you want to be, and labels are nothing more than a convenient way to summarize that.
As for "making you responsible for how that group is perceived", like Troy said to Shirley in the first paintball fight, "I am not an ambassador." The responsibility for how a group is perceived is on those doing the perceiving.
A reminder: this man has an Oscar
I sure hope so
As he should
For screenwriting right?
@@sydneyp7867 yep
@@palikaloz man, he is so cool
As an empath, I'm sensing he might have a crush on jeff
[abdomen touch]
Please never let this power corrupt you. With great empathy comes great sense of getting basic human behavior.
@@Zero_XTZ5 I hope you're being ironic...
Of course he's being ironic. Everybody knows the Dean has a crush on Jeff, just as much as every normal human being is an empath. If you don't feel empathy, that's the literal definition of a psychopath
Do you sense loud music? A nightclub, perhaps? So many penises!
I'm just now noticing the dalmatian themed decoration in the dean's office
Same ive literally never noticed that before
It ramps up like crazy. "This better not awaken anything in me" kicks it off, and then it just keeps getting worse.
Now that you've pointed it out, it's all I can see.
your just now noticing that?
It might've awoken something in him
The fandom: What is the Dean’s sexuality?
Community writers: *YES*
He is interested in e everything, all of the time.
"I make gayness look like Mormonism" what an incredibly hilarious fucking line, hahahaha fuck I love the dean so much
I want that on a shirt
@@Suchwerewolf or on a patch that I could put on a denim jacket.
I love the Dean and Jeff silently speculating on Frankie’s sexuality, right in front of her. 😂😂
She's a chapstick lesbian
I loved when Jeff and The Dean had moments like that, they actually had a lot of fun together and despite Jeff pretending otherwise he obviously did care about him, along with everyone else at Greendale❤
@@jayjya Came to reply this, was not disappointed lol
Unironically the BEST queer character in anything, period. Give me more unhinged pansexual imps in media PLEASE
Second best, Captain Holt is first
@@bobbyb2749hmmmm tough ranking for me
@@AlessandroPioltelli I love them both and i find them equally funny, but i think Holt is a better queer character because he turns every queer character stereotype on its ass and has better character development.
@@bobbyb2749 I mean, it’s probably cause B99 is more of a typical sitcom (I can’t remember one thing the changed about the dean from season 1-6)
what's imps?
Only one I believe you forgot:
“And yes, this is a ladies Uncle Sam outfit, it’s my sisters, it was last minute”
“I wonder if that’s the same sister who emails me to ask if I think her brother is cute”
13:43
@@maddyalbright2531 that lines not in there tho. Just the decision to wear the ‘sisters’ outfit
@@emiluvb it’s whenever the dean has the outfit on and is announcing the people running for student government
Oh my god
also he's so fit, thank you academy award winner jim rash
Acadean-emy award winner
Acadean-emy award winner
The way Rash plays this character...it's uniquely tasteful. It's shamelessly over the top and yet every second is artfully crafted and nuanced.
First watching the show I dismissed him as a "haha, because gay" type character. Maybe that's how it started. But he really is talented.
And the proof of the pudding: the Dean / Rash at the end of S5E2, pressed against the study room window, thinking that ridiculously, wonderfully poignant homemade French torch-song: "like the sailors who smoke cigarettes by the canal..."
Yeah I’ve been thinking about this recently and it’s interesting. He has elements of stereotypical gay characters in sitcoms but he’s given more layers that make him feel fleshed out. He also has some amazing lines and his character is really likable
This video had better not awaken anything in you
He and Jeff have more chemistry than Jeff had with Britta or Annie
Yeah?
In my early 20s I was in love with a woman who wasn’t in love with me. The word for this is unfortunate, not chemistry.
Exactly.
The dean has crazy high chemistry with literally everyone because he’s a damn 5 alarm fire in an oil refinery.
That guy deserves one Emmy for each sexuality.
There aren’t enough…
How many Emmys would that b tho
"I'm not openly anything, and "gay" doesn't begin to cover it." is one of the best lines in this show.
I will never not laugh at the olive scene. The Dean might be the best character on television
I'm convinced the olives thing is so that Jeff always relates olives to The Dean for the rest of his life.
It's basicaly Dean making sure he lives just as rent free in Jeffs head as Jeff does his.
i've seen the show four times and the olives scene cracks me up every time
Tell that to Takashi, teenage boy in Tokyo. You heartless son of a B!/€# !
You know this the first time that I noticed that the "vision board" was a running gag or that after he watched that dalmatian video his office progressively got more dalmatian decorations throughout the show lol amazing little details by the crew
"This better not awaken anything in me" ⭐
I STILL YELL "HAHAHAHA GAY MARRIAGE!" all the time
I really love how the dean is bashful snd insecure about his job etc and when it comes to this he’s very assertive
Don't forget his godly powers at rapping and directing
I love that Dean Pelton was representation for the "weird" side of sexuality and gender expression. The fact that his identity doesn't get covered by traditional labels, consistently confuses everyone around him, seems to ebb and flow and change AND is never presented as "wrong" or "silly" but instead as 100% OK is marvelous representation for those of us in the LGBT community who have similarly hard-to-define identities or struggle with labels and explanations. Truly A+ queer rep, we need more characters like Dean Pelton.
Personally I felt like it was trying to make queerness a joke like the homophobic/transphobic trope where the LGBT character is there to be made fun of,, but I still like the character anyway lmao.
@@thebuilder5271 his queerness itself isn't the joke (I think the gay dean episode best shows this point ) tho certain things somewhat related to it is like his weird kinks and obsession with Jeff are tho those same traits could very well be applied to straight characters and it could still be applied as a joke....
@@thebuilder5271 He's a character who has jokes made at his expense, but that's literally everyone in Community. He's never singled out, never MORE joked about or at than literally anyone else in the show, but also never LESS.
So his sexuality is not the joke, but it also isn't exempt from the same level of fun-poking as everyone else. Pitch-perfect representation: equality.
If you look up to the dean for representation I feel bad for you alphabet people
@@bigdongkong1854 I wouldn't say we look up to him but when this show was made this character would of been one of the first characters that represent a person with gender expression like this. The Dean isn't actually the greatest person as he sexual harassed jeff in a way, like if he was straight and Jeff was a woman it would be viewed very differently, also the Dean has been shown to be racist many times in the show.
God this is a long comment sorry
The LARP scene when he impales himself upon Jeff simply kills me.
Killed him too
I hug my father!
Rest in Dean
“None of your business and barely the whole truth” is also how I respond whenever others assume my sexuality 😂😂 I love Dean and by extension Jim Rash for all the ambiguous queer representation he’s given us
Representing those who can't necessarily put a label on it 💞
The perfect actor for the role and the writers for the show were great for all his lines lmao
writers gave him good lines because he was also a writer and probably gave himself a lot of them haha
I use the “this better not awaken anything in me” line all the time lol
"Let me get this as straight as I can get things" I have never felt more seen
Samee lmao
Another title for this video could be "Dean simping for Jeffrey Winger" and I would still watch it more than once.
You need to make "Frankie being a humble outsider who came in and nailed it"
It's too bad she couldn't have been a part of the group with Troy. She did add some flavor.
She's fucking great
That would just be every single clip with Frankie in it.
She’s like the only time a character has been added into a show and everyone loved her immediately
Surprised the “Having Jeffery inside of me” scene wasn’t included
Lol when Jeff goes *SHUT UP*
This show helped me better understand my deansexuality
*sexualidean
Sexuali-dean
@@VenaMarena555 dean-ality
jeffsexuality* XD
Jexualidean
I never noticed all the outfits they put Britta and Jeff in during the crazy outfits the dean wears montage
Me neither. And I'm now ready to bet no book is ever open beyond page 5 in the show.
They also have props representing the different episodes. Like the RC on the table is referencing the trampoline episode, or more accurately the few days before it happened when Troy and Jeff were really into RC cars
@@creeperslayer241 This show is so clever
The Dean is the Tobias Funke of the show, he's the most consistently funny character, even in the bad seasons
Always loved the gradual increase of dalmatian parafernalia in his office xD
Regarding Dean Pelton's sexuality, he put it best himself: Gay doesn't even begin to cover it.
“EVEN HIS SHADOW!” Prolly my fav community moment all time
"I'm not openly anything and gay dosn't begin to cover it." Words to live by.
It's so interesting the way you can tell that all of the touching of Jeff was super choreographed and he was trying to play it off as casual
Incredible acting
I didn't see all the dalmatian pictures, pillows, etc. Until now.
8:26 has more
Something woke up within him.
“I’ll beat you up”
“I’ll like it”
ok but can we talk about how good he looks in this green dress???? 9:21
❤
I had to rewatch this part it is a really cute dress but its not green
One of my favorite bits is Jeff and the Dean silently talking while Frankie is speaking because as much as Jeff doesn't want to be friends with the Dean, they are lowkey besties
Dean is ridiculous, mellow dramatic, and often a control freak, but he's also legitimately hardworking and genuinely cares for Greendale with all his heart.
I'm obsessed with that little moment the Dean and Jeff had miming at each other about Frankie
I gotta admit, "flat baroque" feels pretty clever
It's one of the best one liners in the show
So, was the portrayal of the dean's sexual harassment of Jeffery as humorous deeply troubling or is he a fantastic character who brings life to the series? Possibly both!
Totally true 👁️👄👁️
Yeah that's exactly what I thought watching this lol, it's like a lot of his personality is the tired trope of the depraved gay character played as a joke, but there's also so much about him that's fantastic, so I'm kinda conflicted.
DEFINITELY both. He’s the definition of a problematic fav lol
Whether is it harassment or not depends on how it makes the other person feel and in the case of Jeffrey he's at best annoyed by it not even in a serious way and just shrugs it off it has zero effect on him psychologically so harassment is an overstatement. However, let's say the dean does the same thing to another person and this other person happens to be vulnerable to this sort of advances it makes him uncomfortable, uneasy and afraid if said person expresses these feelings in any shape or form and the dean does not care and continue then it would harassment point is not all actions affect everyone in the same way humans are pretty compex creatures to simply put them under one label.
@@yanieelidrissi2562 That may add up in real life, but this is fiction. And it may not be harassment, but it is behaviours deeply associated with harassment. The dean invades Jeff's privacy by going into his emails, blackmails Jeff to spend time with him, constantly touches him, and all this while he has power over Jeff--first as his dean then as an employer. Jeff may not react significantly--so maybe it isn't harassment--but I'd argue this is more an issue of how the dean as framed as not a threat (probably relating to his being a LGBT+ man) and Jeff as the a male protagonist, who traditionally shouldn't be swayed by his advances. This unintentionally normalizes these behaviours and may even contribute to a culture were men are not comfortable coming forward with harassment.
the pansexual imp line was one of my absolute favorites lmao
Jim Rash steals every scene.
As someone who couldn’t identify with any sexuality I could fine I can relate
The gay dean episode acknowledging those of us who can't exactly label ourselves 😌
@@supermelon928 It was about the dangers of turning a person into a symbolic icon for a group of people, not about representing people who can't find labels that fit them. It's the same reason that Abed was never given a specific diagnosis. Giving characters specific identity labels allows for fans and non-fans to project their own biases about those identities onto that character. For people who identify with that character, any step outside of that label can feel alienating and misrepresented. For people who are bigoted against that character's identity, they'll look for any excuse to demonize it. Both completely dismiss the nuances and complexity of...being a human being. It's dangerous in fiction but even more dangerous when it happens in real life and it happens with race, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, etc. It is forced representation, not HOLISTIC representation.
Dean being forced to identify as just gay in that episode shows how turning yourself in to a public symbol for "representation" strips one of one's autonomy. Everyone, both gay and non-gay, thought they had a say in how he lived his life and the choices he made. And yes, it really is that deep. Frankie explicitly states it and she's right.
Sexuality labels are also hard for me like both you and OP have stated. But the reason they're so hard because people are so god damn obsessed with over-taxonomy. They treat labels like boxes that one must fit into exactly to be allowed in, but the size of the box is different for everyone trying to gatekeep it so no one can truly fit inside. So, they over do it with subcategory after subcategory so everyone can fit into their own little alienating boxes. They should fit like badges that anyone can wear anywhere on their body without it being the only defining thing about their identity. They should be allowed to wear any badge that fits them by their own understood definitions and lived experiences without feeling like an unworthy imposter for not fitting in the box the "right" way.
If I tell you and someone else to imagine a tree and to then draw it, you won't draw the exact same tree as them. And tomorrow you will not draw the same tree you drew yesterday. The word "tree" runs through the filters of your specific personality and your life experience. Forcing someone to draw a tree the exact same way as you is forcing them to ignore their own thoughts and experiences in favor of your own. That is the issue with forced representation, it allows for no difference or complexity; it creates stereotypes, not human beings.
So yes, Dean Pelton and Abed do represent me in some ways but they're not made for me and me alone. They don't wear all the same badges as me. They don't draw the same trees as me and I shouldn't expect them to. If they were labeled as "just gay" or " just autistic" other people could gatekeep them and shut me out and the parts of me that belong with them would feel severed off and detached.
Sorry for going on a rant. I feel very powerfully about the show and that episode in particular and I get triggered when people over-simplfy it to fit their comfortable narrative.
Three things.
One, Dean Pelton liberates us all.
Two, I have a theory Jeff hated Mr.Rad so much because he was jealous.
Three, Dean's obsession with dalmatians stems from his love of firefighters.
Deans impression of Jeff is one of the funniest moments in the entire show and really shows how well of an actor he really is. 🤣
I think you mean when the switched bodies
@@punkphoenix4881 Right sorry, I mean when Dean had Jeff inside him.
Thank you for this, Jim Rash & Community in general deserve more recognition, thank you sm for posting these comps
its funny how the characterization just builds up over the quick jokes and screentime. like the dalmation thing slowly developing over the first season and then the finale he invited two people in dalmation costumes 😂 hilarious
the song Gay Dean lives in my mind rent from
Idk why but it’s too funny every time the Dean put his hand on Jeff’s chest/shoulder and Jeff looks down like “…what?”
this video finally made me fully understand the "go both ways" joke
02:42 this little moment of connection between Jeff and Craig right there is one of my favorite moments.
0:32 when me and my family argue about lgbt+ issues and they ask me why i’m getting so emotional
Community is such a fantastic show I’m always blown away by the writing and acting whenever I re-watch it
"Don't be mad with me I didn't expect more then one person would answer the ad. yes dream coming true" Wow just wow
Missed opportunity for "dean coming true"
Can we not forego the absolute shivering delivery of Goodman. Man has an impressive control over his voice
Jeff shows up in so many scenes I forgot for a minute the video was about the Dean, hahaha
"Approximately Two-sevenths of what I am" -- I'm wheezing just typing out this Deanrithmatic. (Deangebra?)
He's calculadean it
This show being so damn progressive during the late 2000s / early 2010s is fucking beautiful
What show is it?
@@ankyfire Community
@@bublertus906 THANK YOU! I was trying to find the answer in the comments, but to no avail
i like it, but... not really lol
Nothing says inclusion like being played for laughs.
“I hope this doesn’t awaken something in me” is the best line in the show.
I'm 5 minutes into this and I'm predicting that half of this video is him thirsting over Jeff.
Edit: After finishing the video I'm thinking at least 60%.
i was JUST thinking about how i needed a good dean compilation so thank u very much for this, ur videos are great
why did i just now realize the dalmation dog pillows and posters around his office omg ive watched this show repeatedly since 2017
how could you not include
"I'm inclined to agree with the man in uniform"
"Shocker"
He can describe his sexuality better than most people on tiktok
no cause that's too true
It's funny because he's acting too.
The "I _HUG_ my FATHER!!" scene is incredible
This compilation better not awaken anything on me
omg i never realized how many pictures of Dalmatians the dean had on his wall
For real, that John Goodman clip (Vice Dean Laybourne) is probably one of the most chilling scenes ever shown on a comedy series
Him staring through the window with the French music TAKES. ME. THERE. every single time!!! It’s the ✨fantasy✨
9:34 this one ascends beyond comedy
this is art
On the weekends he's just a craigular joe
"I didn't think more than one person would respond to the ad. Dream coming true!"
One of Dean's best lines 😂
"I didn't think more than one person would answer the add, yessss~ dream coming true" 🤣
I HAVE YOUR PFP ON MY PHONE CASE OMG
I have always dreamed of playing charades with you Jeffrey, but not like this, and not on dry land!
With Blitzo and the dean it seems like there's been an increase in pansexual imps
The cut between the dog costumes and the similar pillows on his couch is great
17:58 This might be my favorite moment of the entire show.
Me too
Omg I never noticed how much Dalmatian stuff Dean has in his office.....
one day i'll write that slow burn Dean x City College Dean enemies to lovers fic
"this better not awaken anything in me" is something i say to myself way too often. and way too often it does awaken something in me.
This actor has been around in bit parts for years. (That '70's Show, According to Jim) I am so happy that he has a starring role in this show.
Did you know he won an Oscar for screenwriting (for The Descendants)
sexual harrasment doesn't even start to cover this.... but it's a perfect character for community
I love how subtly he gets all this dalmation decor through the show
"this better not awaken anything in me"
Oh that's where that comes from
Jesus that opening monoluge is one of the best monologues of the series
the ab/stomach hand as well as the shoulder hand is hilarious to me