Greendale is a heightened world, but Laybourne is playing his role with such hyper seriousness (which should be what makes it funny) that you are aware that he is aware how ridiculous it is. What didn’t work: I like John Goodman, but I’m not sure his brand of antagonism is a fit with this show. The room-temperature room was just a good idea. It really makes me want to see Jeff’s father come around. Also in that department: Jeff’s speech, which inadvertently kills Cornelius, was beautifully delivered by Joel McHale and a very real moment for the character.
I can only quote a bit of it down below, but this is what a show can do when it absolutely knows its characters. What worked: There was a conversation in the second act between Troy and Abed that was so funny I had to pause it twice in order to get my laughs out. AThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
Troy refuses, preferring to watch television with his friend.
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Elsewhere, Vice Dean Laybourne (John Goodman) tries to recruit Troy, revealed to be a manual labour genius back in Season 1’s “English as a Second Language”, to the air-conditioning school. Jeff does not see his own problems, but it is easy to see that issue will come to a head. Pierce ends up speaking poorly of his dad at the funeral, and Jeff recognizes Pierce’s serious daddy issues, which Britta, the budding psychology student, diagnosed much earlier in the episode. In this case, it is not the vintage Hawthorne fake heart attack. Eventually, Jeff reads Pierce’s dad the riot act, one informed by his own experiences, even if Jeff is in denial. But really, it is about Pierce’s lifelong struggles dealing with his controlling father, and Jeff’s issues with the same, by proxy. Sure, the hook of the episode is Pierce’s wetnaps, Hawthorne’s Wipes, becoming popular within the gay community, bringing his father, the beyond-conservative Cornelius Hawthorne, to Greendale to try to exert control over his liberal (or at least more malleable if money is involved) son. This episode was about homosexuality in the same way that Friday Night Lights was about the football. Plot summary: OK, that was a bit of a lie.
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