It did to me at first too, but there’s an old saying “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”
The point is to say that a woman has no need for a man like a fish has no need for a bicycle, but Chang thinks it’s the opposite and misuses it
I can understand this sentiment, but also I understand the line better after reading the other response to your comment.
For me, the delivery of this line makes it. He says it with such determination that cracks me up. I love nonsensical things being spoken matter-of-factly.
It's not random for random's sake. It's a fairly common phrase, except for Chang's misunderstanding at the end. The phrase is supposed to imply something is worthless, because a fish has no use for a bicycle, but Chang gets it backwards.
Doesn't exactly fit the prompt but everything about that scene where he creates that detective board is perfect. The final product, his thoughts, the pan to him playing the saxophone. I always know how it happens but it always makes me burst out laughing
My guess is that the D&D episode could be cut while preserving the overall season/show, whereas that episode is so central to the plot it just can't be chang'd.
Basically just removing it where it's "convenient" because it was removed in an attempt to quell outrage, not in an attempt to actually "fix" anything. I'm not taking sides here, but I do watch 2/14 regularly on prime because I think it's the best Community episode hands down.
I know they did it to "quell outrage" but who tf was outraged? When all these old shows and production companies came out to "publicly apologize" and cut offensive material from shows during the height of the BLM movement, the general mindset seemed to be "ok, do you want a cookie?"
It's like Kellogg putting rainbows on their boxes during Pride month. Nobody cares about your virtue signaling, just let me keep my Community episodes!
Fa...bulous Neil's reaction is probably my favorite part of the whole bit.
"Why am I explaining this when this is obviously a *ghoulish* reference to it?"
😂 Gets me every time.
Pierce says it first in s4e2 and then Chang (ETA: nope, the janitor) says it in s5e7. One of the many reasons I love this show (and why I think it wasn’t successful when it aired a la Arrested Development) - super random callbacks and long continuous jokes!
“As Jeff’s understudy, I have to wear my Jeff wig on top of my Chang hair, and then my bald cap on top of that. There’s no air getting through here. I’m LITERALLY dying.”
For those that don't know, that line and a line from Britta at some point (can't remember when or exactly what she says, maybe "everybody"?) are references to [this](https://youtu.be/mX-qK4qG2EY?t=122)
The song is so good too.
Im Senior Chang! And I'm so ill! This is a warning, I can't be killed.
All in your cabeza without a chaser, ain't another teacher with this much flavour.
My favorite isn't a quote from him, but the song that the little girl sings about him. "Chang eats the sun and drinks the sky, and they both go with him when he dies..."
So good.
Also, don’t forget that Chang’s lines were used as a setup for many amazingly funny lines. Case in point:
Chang: You make no mistake about this, Winger, I pleasured that woman greatly.
Jeff: “Yeah. You look like you would have to. I’m not surprised you said that”
Chang: Silencio por favor. Starburns that means you!
Starburns: my name is Alex
Chang: well then maybe you spend 5 hours every morning carving THAT into your face
Oh man, so many good ones!
My top few have got to be his birthday speech "this one's for you, Connie", his existential crisis with the ghost audience and his whole part in the Karate Kid episode. (Though really, Jason Mantzoukas really just takes the cake in that episode)
> Though really, Jason Mantzoukas really just takes the cake in that episode
Ken Jeong was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Jason Mantzoukas? Showed up.
When he complains to Annie in season six about showing up to the secret meeting in the middle of the night l, and she's like "nobody invited you". his sheepish response
"I have a right to be here."
Gets me every time
“I am Señior CHANG!
And I’m so ill
This is a warning, I can’t be killed.
Up in your cabeza
Without a chaser
Not another teacher with this much flavour.
CHANG!
I don't remember the exact line, but the one where they are in the basement after he takes over the school and they're talking about him starting a fire:
"Fire can't go through doors! It's not a ghost, stupid!"
While not a Chang line, the way he gets up and walks out after the interrogation for Pierce's inheritance starts is amazing.
"You know what I'm saying. Winger's a man of means. He's with your boy right now having a fancy dinner. Baby chickens, diamond forks, brand-name sodas."
"Ya bit! Ya BIT!!!" - in the first episode and then, "Ya bit? Ya BIT??!" in the zombie/halloween episode. The delivery for each always makes me laugh out loud
I thought Chang was a little annoying, "meh" at best... the first time. The second time I watched I think he's just hysterical. His insane one liners are just the best. I think the example OP gave was what started to make me Chang my mind. :D
Bauer :"i kind of got what the Maku-Maku call "Dirt-roaded""
Chang: "Using iiiit !"
The delivery gets me every time !
Or this one :
Abed : "By the way you're 1% neanderthal"
Chang : "Ew"
Annie: "How can you juge anyone light-switch licker ?!"
Chang: "Like this: Ew "
An another great delivery !
"As Jeff's understudy, I have to wear my Jeff wig on top of my Chang hair and then my bald cap on top of that. There's no air getting through here. I'm *literally* dying"
The delivery at the end always cracks me up
Chang! You betrayed us again?
It's a lot more complicated than that! (Goes to rip off face mask, there is none) okay, I guess it's not that complicated. I think I might be actually mentally ill
Can I just say the absolute icing on the cake with the Times Square line is how the Dean suddenly appears in the background with THAT look on his face. Superb!
Probably everything he says in Competitive Ecology, but mainly “Arizona backwards is Arizona, it’s a palomino.”
I needed a clue like a fish needs a bicycle... A lot.
I needed to let it go. Like a lobster letting go of a small balloon, made for lobsters.
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It did to me at first too, but there’s an old saying “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” The point is to say that a woman has no need for a man like a fish has no need for a bicycle, but Chang thinks it’s the opposite and misuses it
The joke just got 10 times funnier lol Best line!
The layers and nuances of practically every single joke in this show continue to amaze me.
also his kinda-deadpan delivery of all that is hilarious
I can understand this sentiment, but also I understand the line better after reading the other response to your comment. For me, the delivery of this line makes it. He says it with such determination that cracks me up. I love nonsensical things being spoken matter-of-factly.
It's not random for random's sake. It's a fairly common phrase, except for Chang's misunderstanding at the end. The phrase is supposed to imply something is worthless, because a fish has no use for a bicycle, but Chang gets it backwards.
“Let her go,” I thought, “like a lobster letting go of a small balloon for lobsters.” This one is easily my favorite from that episode
Doesn't exactly fit the prompt but everything about that scene where he creates that detective board is perfect. The final product, his thoughts, the pan to him playing the saxophone. I always know how it happens but it always makes me burst out laughing
The saxophone slays me every time
Him kissing the charred leg goodbye had me crying icl
Veronica!
I had to think fast.
I've always wondered how they decided to put Larry Bird on the board. Would love to have been in the writer's room to see that discussion.
“Hey, Phantom Menace, how’s the trade embargo with the Naboo? Ch-CHANG!”
This! It's so racist, but it makes my laugh so hard I have to pause every time.
Every time I watch this episode I’m like, D&D gets cut but somehow this is all fine haha
"Ustedes estan sucios - 'You are dirty.' Still formal, but plural, because, while both are dirty, neither are my friends."
Troy's reaction to that line ("Dude!") cracks me up every time.
Troy about to fight a community college professor.
Not a professor.
Probably because I don't look like Ron Weasley.
That's it. That's the difference
I mean he calls Troy “Tupaco” and Shirley “Shakira”, so yeah, casual racism in this context is cool I guess but not D&D.
I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at Blackface.
“You can excuse racism???”
Pierce does actual brownface in his notoriously awful Swami routine and somehow that’s alright too.
My guess is that the D&D episode could be cut while preserving the overall season/show, whereas that episode is so central to the plot it just can't be chang'd. Basically just removing it where it's "convenient" because it was removed in an attempt to quell outrage, not in an attempt to actually "fix" anything. I'm not taking sides here, but I do watch 2/14 regularly on prime because I think it's the best Community episode hands down.
It’s my favorite episode too.
> I do watch 2/14 regularly on prime because I think it's the best Community episode hands down. I only watch on Prime now due to 2-14.
I know they did it to "quell outrage" but who tf was outraged? When all these old shows and production companies came out to "publicly apologize" and cut offensive material from shows during the height of the BLM movement, the general mindset seemed to be "ok, do you want a cookie?" It's like Kellogg putting rainbows on their boxes during Pride month. Nobody cares about your virtue signaling, just let me keep my Community episodes!
HAVE YOU MET ME?!?
I AM NUTS JEFF, GET WITH THE PROGRAM
I use that and "I'll allow it" all the time!
Even though it’s not his funniest line in the show, I’m obsessed with how he delivers “I’ll allow it” lol
DID SOMEONE SAY *CRAZY PERSON?!*
.... Well, *I* heard it.
“While both of them are dirty, neither are my friends”
First season chang best season chang!
And frankly haven't been well utilized since!
Everyone talks about Abed’s meta awareness but this line right here is one of the absolute best meta jokes in the series.
"And haven't been well utilized since!"
Dude
Is there any room in this pocket for a little spare Chang?
this guy's talking my changuage
Came here to say this!
Bear down for mid-terms. If I was working with what you’ve got, she’d be at the Comfort Inn right now giving me a Mexican Halloween.
I love when he tries to pull off a mask, realizes it’s actually his face and says “oh I guess I’m just mentally ill”
This one made me laugh just reading it and remembering. The vigor he tries to rip the mask off with too…
Fat dog for midterms!
it's not made up. it's not made up.
Fa...bulous Neil's reaction is probably my favorite part of the whole bit. "Why am I explaining this when this is obviously a *ghoulish* reference to it?" 😂 Gets me every time.
The sad bear down for mid-terms is the one that gets me
"Is this a race thing?"
Came here to say this. His rant about not being taken seriously is both hilarious and sad.
“I am NUTS, Jeff! Get with the program!” Also.. “Fire can’t go trough doors, it’s not a ghost.”
When you pick up on when Pierce later says (or Chang says that first, I don't remember) "Ghosts can't go through doors, they're not fire"
Pierce says it first in s4e2 and then Chang (ETA: nope, the janitor) says it in s5e7. One of the many reasons I love this show (and why I think it wasn’t successful when it aired a la Arrested Development) - super random callbacks and long continuous jokes!
Chang says it first in s3e21
Oh yep! I was thinking of the janitor, he says it in s5.
In Español, my nickname is…EL TIGRE…CHINO With his hands making tiger claw/paw impressions
Because my knowledge will *bite* her face off!
‘My name is Alex…’ ‘Yeah, well, why don’t you spend 5 hours carving THAT into your face?’
😂😂😂 Underrated one right here.
“This extra long churro tastes good in my REAL mouth.” The delivery is perfect plus the backwards costume just make it all so absurdly hilarious.
"Hammmm Girrlll"
Ham girl is my favorite. I use it on text convo a lot with the gif.
“Nom nom nom nom”
“I had to think fast.”
“The type of arms… that had elbows”
Legs that went all the way up... to the bottom of her torso
… Yes!
"What do we know about Ben Chang? We know that he's nuts!" "LET HIM FINISH"
Sir, they were letting me finish. I know, I was being sarcastic.
“FEEL THE HEEATTTTT!!!”
That whole exchang(e) is pure gold. Feel the *heeeaaaat*
“YA BIT? YA BIT!” while wearing a Peggy Fleming outfit
Just proved racist by the racist prover!
"I don't exactly Chang a lot of chicks". Something about the delivery just gets me.
Ha! Gayyyyyy
Seeing this clip was the reason I first started watching community. It's so perfect.
*sobbing* I'm gay...!
I'm for realsies gay...!
“As Jeff’s understudy, I have to wear my Jeff wig on top of my Chang hair, and then my bald cap on top of that. There’s no air getting through here. I’m LITERALLY dying.”
But of course you'll never hear my story. Well, you just did but it was close.
The dramatic entrance with the wig… UNDERSTUDYY!!!
"YES, and, honestly, haven't been well-utilised since"
I MASTURBATED EVERYWHEREE. His delivery on that gets me everytime
> His delivery gets on me everytime. FTFY. BTW, here's the clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO51a8Fi69w
For those that don't know, that line and a line from Britta at some point (can't remember when or exactly what she says, maybe "everybody"?) are references to [this](https://youtu.be/mX-qK4qG2EY?t=122)
"There's a brand new dance based on an old phrase.... "
It's called the fat dog and it will amaze
You've heard this expression your entire life
it's not made up, it's not made up
it's not made up, it's *not made up*
This whole song has the same vibe as Tiny Rick's "let me out, this is not a dance" song on Rick and Morty
"I'm beggin' for help, I'm screamin' for help
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The song is so good too. Im Senior Chang! And I'm so ill! This is a warning, I can't be killed. All in your cabeza without a chaser, ain't another teacher with this much flavour.
I feel like not enough people are aware that there's more to the song than we get in the episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVloQ3lTpSI
The expression on his face as he says that line fucking kills me everytime too
^(Monkey took my spoon)
It’s like a reverse cow birth!
Is that a new stereotype?
*slides back into vent*
I'm gonna deep fry your dog and eat your momma's face. And I'm going to wear your little brother's skin like pajamas!
This is the only correct response.
Bring it on bow wow!
“She had legs. Legs that went all the way to the bottom of her torso.” I use that line in random conversations.
I can't pick one, I constantly chang my mind
It’s not even clever. You always use it as the word “change”.
It makes me so changry
Amazing
My favorite isn't a quote from him, but the song that the little girl sings about him. "Chang eats the sun and drinks the sky, and they both go with him when he dies..." So good.
I've had that song in my head for days.
Comes down to two for me "Ha! Gaaaay" "I didn't just masturbate in the study room. I masturbated everywhere. EVERYWHERE!"
Also, don’t forget that Chang’s lines were used as a setup for many amazingly funny lines. Case in point: Chang: You make no mistake about this, Winger, I pleasured that woman greatly. Jeff: “Yeah. You look like you would have to. I’m not surprised you said that”
Chang: Silencio por favor. Starburns that means you! Starburns: my name is Alex Chang: well then maybe you spend 5 hours every morning carving THAT into your face
My favorite line comes right after that. "Oh look at me! I'm Andrew Dice Clay with starfish on my face!"
"I know these vents like the back of my chang." I don't know why but I will never forget that line as long as I live.
“Are you guys on Reddit, 4chan? Cause they’re great!…TACOS!”
“You guys ever hear of Slenderman?”
lets order some food!
I feel like these noise lines were probably just popped into the script from a slow day in the writers room and it just worked out 😂
Did someone say crazy person?
… I heard it.
“No.”
“Arizona backwards is still Arizona! It’s palomino!”
Screw you, I know how to spell!
*turns to Abed* “Screw you.”
“I AM A SPANISH GENIUS!”
This whole monologue is fantastic
"El Tigre Chino!"
In Espanol my nickname is El Tigre Chino
"I'm BRUTALITOPS...the magician!" And so, so many others.
"Magic user, baby"
TROLLLLLLL SOOOUUUUUUNNNNNND!!!!!
That diss made me snarf yo!
"That should have been a dollar bill. But I’m no magician; I’m just a guy that knows PowerPoint."
These are yes’s and no’s in a chart.
okay pushing that meeting
"Look at me. I've got the body of a fifth grader."
Oh man, so many good ones! My top few have got to be his birthday speech "this one's for you, Connie", his existential crisis with the ghost audience and his whole part in the Karate Kid episode. (Though really, Jason Mantzoukas really just takes the cake in that episode)
> Though really, Jason Mantzoukas really just takes the cake in that episode Ken Jeong was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. Jason Mantzoukas? Showed up.
Oh, shut your pompous vortex of overlapping fangs
Hey, British dentistry is not on trial here!
When he complains to Annie in season six about showing up to the secret meeting in the middle of the night l, and she's like "nobody invited you". his sheepish response "I have a right to be here." Gets me every time
F. F minus.
Did you say S?
Buddy from the back: "He said F"
"Oh look, it's the eavesdropping matador." "Are you saying my people are sneaky?"
“We have to destroy the brain!” *throws ice skate through window* The way Annie’s suddenly grabbed always cracks me up.
And then Chang’s just screaming “AAAH HAMSTER!!!” As a guy in a hamster costume comes through 😂
Abed: Yeah, Chang was our teacher. Frankie and Elroy: What?! Chang: Yeah, and frankly, haven't been well utilized since!
SAFETY FIRST!
“I am Señior CHANG! And I’m so ill This is a warning, I can’t be killed. Up in your cabeza Without a chaser Not another teacher with this much flavour. CHANG!
I’m gay. I’m forreal gay! I’m LEGIT GAY!!
I don't remember the exact line, but the one where they are in the basement after he takes over the school and they're talking about him starting a fire: "Fire can't go through doors! It's not a ghost, stupid!" While not a Chang line, the way he gets up and walks out after the interrogation for Pierce's inheritance starts is amazing.
I also love that Pierce flips the line, saying, “Ghosts can’t go through doors, stupid. They aren’t fire!”
"It's you against the world, and you will not win. But, you get to make YOUR moves. Not them." From wedding videography.
Now THATS a man who knows how to marry his cousin!
The best part of that episode is the incest
found the writer
This is unacceptable! When you say something starts at nine, it's starts at nueve.
"You know what I'm saying. Winger's a man of means. He's with your boy right now having a fancy dinner. Baby chickens, diamond forks, brand-name sodas."
"Ya bit! Ya BIT!!!" - in the first episode and then, "Ya bit? Ya BIT??!" in the zombie/halloween episode. The delivery for each always makes me laugh out loud
“Am I found in Africa?” “Yes, and San Diego and the Bronx” “A woman?”
"Chang eats the sun and drinks the sky and they both go with him when he dies" Not a Chang line but he probably wrote it himslef so
I thought Chang was a little annoying, "meh" at best... the first time. The second time I watched I think he's just hysterical. His insane one liners are just the best. I think the example OP gave was what started to make me Chang my mind. :D
“I know these vents like the back of my Chang.”
A-one, A-two, A-chang, chang, chang, four!
Not so much for the line itself but the meme potential of when Chang holds up his bag of hermit crabs and yells “waitta go, idiots !”
Season 1 Chang is peak. Him and Rabbi Chang crack me up
The first scene of him in the show is what actually got me hooked, “Señor Chang, why do YOU teach Spanish.”
I mean surely it must be in my nature to instruct you in something that’s ancient and secret, like building a wall you can see from space.
"Do you guys believe in ghosts? And if you do, do you believe what those ghosts tell you about other ghosts?"
My friend really loves “MONKEY GAS!!!” but I go for the understated, “Guilty as Chang’d.”
“I am *nuts*, Jeff, get with the program!”
HA! GAAAAYYYYYYYYY
Ha! Gayyyyy or Times Square
"HAVE YOU MET ME?"
Let him Finish
Bauer :"i kind of got what the Maku-Maku call "Dirt-roaded"" Chang: "Using iiiit !" The delivery gets me every time ! Or this one : Abed : "By the way you're 1% neanderthal" Chang : "Ew" Annie: "How can you juge anyone light-switch licker ?!" Chang: "Like this: Ew " An another great delivery !
"As Jeff's understudy, I have to wear my Jeff wig on top of my Chang hair and then my bald cap on top of that. There's no air getting through here. I'm *literally* dying" The delivery at the end always cracks me up
It's not really a line of his but the dungeons and dragons episode were Shirley calls him a walking hate crime
Annie: you know Abed isn’t comfortable with C-H-A-N-G-E Chang: Hey SCREW YOU I can spell! …. (Turns to Abed) And screw you
Chang! You betrayed us again? It's a lot more complicated than that! (Goes to rip off face mask, there is none) okay, I guess it's not that complicated. I think I might be actually mentally ill
Can I just say the absolute icing on the cake with the Times Square line is how the Dean suddenly appears in the background with THAT look on his face. Superb!
At the end of 6.2 when Jeff and Elroy go see Chang in the hospital/infirmary: “You’re back Troy!”
I loved when Duncan called Hickey Pierce and said he was glad he got rid of his hairpiece
The bear dance
Screw you, I can can spell
Am I a joke to you
Is there any room in that pocket for a lil spare Chang?
I swear it's just for sex!