Community: 10 Worst Characters Who Appeared After Season One

Played by: Fred Willard

Just like the season that birthed it, Alter-Pierce - if that even is his name, the show's so passive in his appearance that it's incredibly easy to forget - is an unfounded mess of a character that has no business being here. On the show, that is; his placement on this list is more than justifiable.

There's no need to explain which season he appears in when the magnitude of characters of that season make up the majority of this list. There honestly isn't much to be said about Alter-Pierce, to no fault of Fred Willard himself. He's a more innocuous stand-in for Chevy Chase's incongruous Pierce Hawthorne, who by the fourth season was becoming gradually more inundated and wearied with the show and its staff, which lead to his dismissal.

Presumably, Willard was the desired replacement for Chase, but with the season 4 writers - who didn't understand the show they were writing for - attempting to secrete the notion that they could do meta comedy too. Attempting being the keyword.

Abed has gone into a mental stasis, which is nothing new, but in this mentally deficient plot, we see a fresh directive in terms of how Abed, internally, believes the season should commence, with Pierce being replaced before coming back in the very next episode.

The outright lack of commitment proves to be the fundamental problem, with the metakey method being too in your face (which is ironic when that's the entire point), but the way it's executed makes it feel like the writers were simply telling the audience: this is the show now, deal with it!