In addition to there being a new episode of "Community" airing Thursday night on NBC, we also have the debut a new webisode series featuring Jim Rash as the hilariously neurotic Deal Pelton on the show's official site.
On Thursday, Rash spoke openly and candidly to me about some of his favorite experiences from the show along with some of the episodes.
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Matt: On the show Pelton has this bizarre sort of self-entitlement about him. Do you think that he fancies himself as a sort of hero or crusader for the school?
Jim: He is a guy who at his core really wants this school to be success -- I think he fancies his community college to be, as he sarcastically put it, I think he wants this place to be as great as the four-year college. Of course, he makes a lot of missteps along the way but his heart is in the right place.
I remember when we first started [creator] Dan Harmon felt like I probably went to some Ivy League school and felt like he didn't get the college experience he wanted so he's trying the make this the experience he wishes he could have.
How have you found shooting the webisodes to be different?
It was the same in the sense of having the same set and most of the same crew -- we shot those during a hiatus week. That part of it felt the same. It was fun obviously because Leonard was in some of those and the Human Being ... this time the Human Being was someone different. It rotates on who is in that glorious costume.
It is a little weird because it's always going to feel a little different -- hopefully we'll get a chance to do some more and have the regular cast in there.
So is there any particular moment from the show that stands out for you?
i think I'm partial to shooting the Apollo 13 space episode personally but I will say that one of my favorite times was only the second episode I was in. It was the football one where I got to come in and ask Troy if he wanted to play football. That was the first time back for me, and it was fun to start fleshing out who that guy was.
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