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The well-loved sitcom Community ran for six seasons (and no movie…yet) and massively exceeded expectations during its run, retaining its cult status since its finale aired in 2015. Community‘s success, in part, is due to the bizarre nature of the show, the community college it portrays, and the students who attend classes there.
With a Dean who is almost constantly in costume and a truly horrifying school mascot, Greendale Community College might just be the strangest school on television. Despite this, the characters appear to love their school, with some continuing to study there far longer than necessary for a three-year degree. Among the many weird things at Greendale are the number of strange classes on offer.
10 Sailing Never Gets Close To The Water
While there are plenty of schools and colleges that do offer sailing courses, Greendale is in land-locked Colorado, and the class is taught in the college’s parking lot as opposed to on a body of water.
The class appears for the first and only time in the Season 1 episode “Beginner Pottery.” The episode’s A-plot and title are focused on the pottery class attended by Jeff, Annie, and Abed but it’s the sailing class attended by the rest of the study group that steals the limelight.
9 Grifting 101 Teaches Students To Rip People Off
The titular class of “Grifting 101” is taught by Professor DeSalvo, played by comedian and actor Matt Berry. The new member of Greendale’s faculty makes himself right at home and immediately starts scamming the students, and the college itself, out of their money. Although, what would you expect from a Professor of grifting?
The episode ends with the Save Greendale Committee thwarting DeSalvo’s attempt to fleece the school of $50,000. DeSalvo is fired by Dean Pelton and the class never makes another appearance.
8 History Of Ice Cream Is The Most Popular Class
History of Ice Cream certainly sounds like an interesting class but, sadly for the students of Greendale, one that is massively over-subscribed. This prompts the Dean to create the “Hunger Deans” a Hunger Games-inspired competition to determine who will remain in the class, and who will have to get their history credits through a more traditional history course. Ultimately the study group are unsuccessful and instead take European History. Unfortunately, this means History of Ice Cream never appears again.
7 Physical Education Education Teaches You All You Need To Know To Teach Physical Education
Physical Education Education, or P.E.E, is a class dedicated to teaching students how to teach P.E, much to the amusement of Troy who thought the extra education was a typo in the course brochure. To his annoyance, Troy ends up struggling to complete course assignments while Shirley is the star of the class.
This odd, but amusing, class appears as a C-plot in the Season 4 episode “Economics of Marine Biology” the A-plot being the Dean’s attempt to convince a wealthy student to attend Greendale, and the B-plot being given to the development of Jeff and Pierce’s friendship.
6 Baby Talk Can’t Be What It Seems To Be, Can It?
Baby Talk appears as part of a montage of weird things at Greendale in the Season 3 episode “Curriculum Unavailable.” The montage includes a number of other classes, a human-chess game between Dean Pelton and City College’s Dead Spreck, and a party for a toilet’s 10,000th flush.
None of the study group appears to take Baby Talk, so we don’t get to see the class again, which does beg the question… what does a Baby Talk class entail? And why wouldn’t Jeff Winger take what is presumably an easy-to-pass blow-off class?
5 Can I Fry That? Asks The Most Important Question
Another class that appears in “Curriculum Unavailable” is Can I Fry That? This class appears to purely consist of students naming a food or any other object to ask if it can be fried. The class isn’t without its difficulties though, one student asks “fries?” and is promptly told to “get out!” Like with Baby Talk, this class is only seen as part of the montage. But to be fair, in this case, there’s not much further you can explore with Can I Fry That?
4 Ladders Is A Rung Above The Other Classes
Ladders is also seen in the montage shown in “Curriculum Unavailable.” Taught by Professor Albrecht, who introduces the class with the iconic line “welcome to Ladders!” it’s unclear exactly what else the class entails.
Ladders later reappears in Season Six and is one of the extraneous classes that Frankie Dart gets rid of. The Save Greendale Committee later overturns this decision. Re-introducing the class, a clearly drunk, Professor Albrecht proceeds to climb the ladder at the front of the class, almost making it to the top before he, and the ladder, fall onto the students. One of the injured students is Annie, who says it was worth it to see Albrecht climb the ladder. It’s not stated if Ladders is once again removed from the syllabus or not, but with Frankie returning to Greendale, we can assume it likely was.
3 Advanced Breath Holding Includes Homework
Another class shown in the montage is Advanced Breath Holding. In this class, the Professor appears to hold his breath for an unknown amount of time, exhale, and then announce “that’s all for today” before telling the students to “read chapter four”.
What book it is that the class must read, if all the lessons are structured this way, remains a mystery as sadly we never see Advanced Breath Holding again. Again, we’re left to wonder why Jeff never took this as a blow-off class.
2 Who Indeed: A Critical Analysis Of Television’s “Who’s The Boss?” Breaks It Down
This class, taken by Abed in Season 2’s “Competitive Wine Tasting,” is just one of two weird classes shown in this episode. The other is Intro to Italian Wines, which is essentially a wine-tasting masquerading as a class, which while weird doesn’t quite make it onto this list on its own.
Who Indeed is a class that offers an in-depth analysis into the TV series Who’s The Boss? Taught by Professor Sheffield, who is played by Stephen Tobolowsky. Professor Sheffield concludes that there is no boss, but Abed suggests that actually, Angela is the boss, going as far as to read Sheffield’s entire textbook and present his view to the class. Sheffield is then forced to agree that ultimately, yes, Angela is the boss. This leads Sheffield towards a breakdown, and neither the class nor its professor is ever seen again.
1 Nicolas Cage: Good Or Bad? Asks The Unanswerable Question
This study of Nicolas Cage movies, and whether he is a good or bad actor, appears in the Season 5 episode “Introduction to Teaching,” in which Jeff returns to Greendale, this time as a professor. The Nicolas Cage class is taught by recurring character, Drama Professor Sean Garrity, who warns Abed to be careful when studying this as there is no answer to the question posed.
Garrity later asks the students their thoughts on Nicolas Cage, with Troy saying that Cage must be a genius and Britta proceeding to go on a rant about pop culture. When Abed arrives in class, Garrity tells the other students to give him some space as he has “overdosed” on Cage movies. Abed then has a breakdown in front of the class and proceeds to act out a number of Cage roles, ending with him climbing onto the desk on all fours and proclaiming himself to be a “sexy cat.”
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