u/discordant_flamingo

I consider community to be something like a live action cartoon: each episode is high concept, absurd, and every character is richly drawn in bright graphic colors.

Buried amidst the chaos of Community is a small plot arc involving Shirley and her late husband Andre. Unlike most characters on the show, Andre's characterization begins off screen, with shirley mentioning her ex husband cheating on her. Initially he is supposed to be seen as a pseudo-antagonist, or at least just not a good a person: he is definitively the reason Shirley's marriage fell apart in S1.

In S2, they make a really cool creative decision to not only pick this plot thread back up, but to twist it and loop it through itself to increase complexity. Shirley has sex with Chang, and then immediately runs back into Andre's arms to prevent potential fallout. Again, this all occurs off screen, but the concept of Andre is softened from cheater/antagonist to neutral/anti-hero.

Then, we finally get to meet Andre. He is handsome, speaks in a flatter tone that most characters, and is always positioned as a voice of reason. Seemingly in spite of (or perhaps because of) his past, he takes on a minor role as set dressing in the episodes, gently guiding the whole crew toward more normal behavior. He serves as a character foil not only to Chang, who is insane, but the entire group at large. While canonically not being that great of a guy, he is superior to the group by virtue of acting like an actual human being.

As he gets further integrated into the plot, Andre increasingly becomes the sole proprietor of virtue. He willingly accepts Chang's potential role in his life, he maturely accounts for his past actions and shows up for Shirley where he couldn't before, and he goes so far as to chastize the group for their suggestions.

We are presented an entire, complex arc of a character whos only in the show for like 5 episodes total. I just wanted to briefly sing a song for Andre because he is an undercelebrated aspect of this show, and surprisingly grounded for these hard hitting moments where it counts. He feels both sincere and real in a cast of caricatures.

-I have a weird experience to share and I'm curious if nayone has commonalities. I gneerated the visual using AI. -

Location: Cape Cod, walking my dog along the beach

Time: 5 AM, during the school year, in 2011

Narrative:

My father and I used to get up early before school and walk our family dog in near pitch black dawn for about thirty minutes. One morning we were walking along and this luminous object appeared in the sky.

I would describe it as figure 8 shaped, or perhaps sperm cell shaped. There was a clear and distinct voluptious curve to it, and it snaked through the sky in an S formation. The whole craft was this pale neon green light, and it had a half-halo arc of green light in front of it and left a green trail that followed its curved path.

My only correction I would make to the visualizer is that the angle is a little off. It snaked horizontally, as if perpendicular to the ground, while maintaining the same height. It was very high above us, like airplane height.

The weirdest part of this encounter is that I made a facebook post about it as soon as it happened and discussed it with my friends at school. Then I completely forgot about it for 15 years.

I have been interested in the phenemenon for a while and have even asked myself if I had seen anything, but had concluded no. Then, one day, the facebook memories tool featured my post, and it all snapped back to me. I suddenly could remember the image of it moving through the sky, the temperature of the cold morning air, the quiet darkness of the night.

Has anyone else seen a craft like this? Is there a possible prosaic explanation (do meteors behave or look like this?)

Has anyone else seemingly had their memory affected by such a sighting? I obviously cared enough to describe it on facebook but didn't once think of it organically while following the UFO subject for years. It was certainly a subconscious motivator for interest in the topic, but I think its wild that I couldn't remember it until I saw the post.

An under-discussed element of this show: Andre is actually an excellent character

UAP spotted walking along the beach early in the morning