Community: 10 Best Relationships
"Why Do I Go To Greendale? To Meet New People!"
Relationships are a strange reality in fiction, especially in the formulaic format of television. They normally consist of a random grab bag of either "will they, won't they's" or two people who constitute a need to be with one another - even when it clearly isn't the right thing and the couple's chemistry is fairly inadequate - with turmoil, tantrums, antics and frantic pandemonium quickly taking centre stage.
Then there's Community.
Dan Harmon isn't a man who tends to conform to traditional writing methods - the man invented his own story circle to clarify this - and Community is certainly no exception to his set of unwritten rules.
The retention of relationships always mimicks reality in the most poetic of ways in this series. People become disenchanted, interest becomes lost and sometimes people simply leave what they've started without the intent of sticking around for the conclusion.
It isn't as disparaging as it sounds most of the time though, as these ten entries will reassure you that, just like the lessons taught try to instil in us, you should never regret what once made you happy. Whether it was a thing of beauty or an episodic affirmation of something crappy.
10. Shirley And Andre
Just like Britta's skepticism when Andre miraculously reintegrates himself back into Shirley's life, wooing her with a nostalgic song from their past, something feels off from the outset. As a result, we're not entirely smitten by his theatrically charged inauguration to the series. Unlike Shirley, who willingly accepts the metaphorical POS with little hesitation.
After sleeping with a stripper and bringing their marriage to the imminent end of a familiar but fractious road, we automatically take a disliking to him based on this alone. Considering we initially only ever hear about this - and the man in question - until he materialises in season 2, ready to reignite the dormant flame he put out when he walked out, it's justified to assume he's not the greatest spouse one could ask for.
Things look like they're in an extreme upheaval for Shirley and Andre when he proposes once again and announces himself as a caring, although fragmented, companion.
That is, until he unceremoniously and quite unexpectedly and flagrantly leaves Shirley without so much as an ostensible explanation in season 5, leaving Shirley devastated, reeling in her sadness and completely disregarding her feelings, leaving her to raise two children alone.