The wild and wacky halls of Greendale Community College have hosted a ton of big stars — and these are the ones who've also gotten schwifty on "Rick and Morty."
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00:00The wild and wacky halls of Greendale Community College have hosted a ton of big stars.
00:06And these are the ones who've also gotten swifty on Rick and Morty.
00:10Joel McHale played Jeff Winger, the de facto leader of the main community crew.
00:15A once-successful lawyer, his prestigious degree from Columbia University is revealed
00:19to be a sham, forcing him out of his career.
00:23In a bid to return to his high-profile lifestyle, Winger enrolls at Greendale Community College
00:28to receive a legitimate degree, where he becomes the leader of a colorful band of misfits.
00:33After Community wrapped up in 2015, McHale went on to star in The X-Files and even played
00:39former Community co-star Chevy Chase in the 2018 comedy A Feudal and Stupid Gesture.
00:45However, he eventually reunited with his Community boss, Dan Harmon, for the Rick and Morty Season
00:503 episode, Rickmancing the Stone.
00:53In this episode, Rick transports his grandchildren, Morty and Summer, to a Mad Max-style universe
00:59filled with chaos and vehicular warfare.
01:01McHale voiced the role of Hemorrhage, the leader of a group that terrorizes the Wastelands.
01:06Summer falls for Hemorrhage, but their love story doesn't last long.
01:10Rick eventually helps the tribe become more civilized, leading the macho Hemorrhage to
01:14adopt a simpler and more docile way of life.
01:17Notably, Summer isn't the only Rick and Morty character to enjoy a brief romance with a
01:22character voiced by a former Community star.
01:25In the Rick and Morty Season 5 episode, A Rick Convenient Mort, Allison Brie voiced
01:29a fictional, eco-conscious superhero named Planitina.
01:34While on an adventure with his grandfather, Morty encounters Planitina and immediately
01:38falls for her.
01:39Surprisingly, the shy superhero also takes a liking to the high schooler, and the two
01:43begin to date, much to the dismay of Morty's mother.
01:47After hatching a plan to save Planitina from being sold to a rich sheik, the two spend
01:51their days together saving the planet.
01:54Unfortunately, Morty learns that Planitina places more value in protecting the planet
01:58than she does in saving human lives, something that forces the young man to break up with
02:03her.
02:04Brie rose to prominence after appearing as the do-good, straight-A student Annie Edison
02:08in Community.
02:09The youngest member of the group, she often struggled to have her voice heard and was
02:13taken advantage of for her proficiency in school.
02:16Throughout Community, she shares a will-they-won't-they relationship with Jeff Winger, which is ironic
02:21considering the two actors also served as love interests for different characters in
02:25Rick and Morty.
02:26The animated series doesn't seem too shy about bringing back guest characters, and Planitina's
02:31story also wasn't quite wrapped up entirely yet.
02:34So there's always the possibility that Brie's character, and Morty, could reunite once again.
02:39And now, an elemental punch that's too hot to handle!
02:45Gillian Jacobs made quite the splash when she joined Community as Britta Perry, an activist
02:51struggling to find meaning in her life through community college.
02:54Britta appeared as a series regular in Community throughout its six-season run.
02:58After the star wrapped up her time as Britta on the comedy, she went on to appear in a
03:02number of Netflix series, including Judd Apatow's Love and the Fear Street trilogy.
03:07Jacobs has also spent the years since Community ended lending her voice to animated characters.
03:12After voicing characters in Adventure Time, American Dad, and Long Live the Royals, Jacobs
03:18briefly played an unhinged superhero in Rick and Morty.
03:22Jacobs appeared as Supernova in the Season 3 episode, Vindicators 3, The Return of Worldender.
03:27In the episode, a drunk Rick concocts a plan to terrorize a team of prolific superheroes
03:33by putting them through life-ending challenges and puzzles that take a page from the Saw
03:37franchise.
03:38After a number of trials and tribulations, Jacobs' Supernova manages to make it out alive.
03:44Despite surviving Rick's mayhem, it remains to be seen whether the character will ever
03:48return to the series.
03:49Perhaps the character could even team up with Alice in Breeze Planetina at some point in
03:53the future?
03:55After appearing in a recurring role as Dean Pelton in the first two seasons of Community,
04:00Jim Rash was promoted to a series regular in Season 3.
04:03The fan-favorite character is best remembered for having a crush on Jeff, and for his many
04:08elaborate and sophisticated costumes.
04:10While starring as the dean of Greendale Community College, Rash co-penned The Descendants, which
04:16nabbed him a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the Oscars.
04:20After Community called it a day, the star quickly made a guest appearance in Rick and
04:23Morty.
04:24The Oscar winner appeared in the Season 2 episode, Big Trouble in Little Sanchez, as
04:29Glaxglow Slimslam, an intergalactic marriage counselor who tries to help Beth and Jerry
04:34reconcile their rocky relationship.
04:36Naturally, not even the greatest marriage experts can tackle their marriage, and chaos
04:41ensues.
04:42IGN praised the episode and the Beth and Jerry storyline, writing,
04:46"...between Jim Rash's guest appearance and the wacky, violent battle that ensued, the
04:50Beth-Jerry storyline was unusually entertaining."
04:54Seeing as Beth and Jerry's relationship has evolved since the second season, it seems
04:58unlikely that Rash will return as the character anytime soon.
05:02The star more recently voiced a character in Solar Opposites, another animated series
05:06spearheaded by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland.
05:09"...you may already be learning something important."
05:14Throughout its six-season run, Community boasted a variety of guest and regular appearances
05:19from high-profile and established actors.
05:21A decent chunk of them have also popped up in Rick and Morty throughout the years.
05:26Perhaps the most obvious is Keith David, who appeared in the final season of Community
05:31as Elroy Potashnik, a failed inventor.
05:34The actor continues to occasionally appear as President Curtis in Rick and Morty.
05:38John Oliver, who most people probably know as the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, appeared
05:43in Community as Ian Duncan, a psychology professor at Greendale.
05:47In 2013, Oliver also voiced an amoeba named Dr. Xenon Bloom in the Rick and Morty Season
05:531 episode, Anatomy Park.
05:55Nathan Fillion, who appeared as a Greendale custodian in Community, also shows up in Rick
06:00and Morty as a galactic secret agent who wants access to Rick's formula for interdimensional
06:05travel in the Season 3 episode, The Rickshank Redemption.
06:09Seeing as Rick and Morty is still airing, it remains to be seen if other cast members
06:13from Community will appear in the animated sci-fi series.
06:17Perhaps Community series regulars Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Ken
06:23Jung will get their shot at voice roles in the show, too.