I nominated the sitcom Community, which features characters of color Abed (played by Danny Pudi), Troy (played by Don Glover), Shirley (played by Yvette Nicole Brown), and Senor Chang (played by Ken Jeong). The show follows the hilarious adventures of a community college study group, covering everything from class projects to Halloween parties to paintball wars for priority registration. Unlike most sitcoms, it doesn't rely on embarrassment squicky humor, and extra bonus, no laugh track!
Abed is Middle Eastern (of Arabic descent I believe), and he is basically the character who seems to understand that he is in a sitcom, and acts accordingly. Everyone else in the study group thinks he's strange or has Asperger's, but really, he just seems to be living by TV rules. He has a penchant for movie-making, being Batman, running a chicken finger operation, and paintball warfare. I can't hope to encapsulate Abed's awesome in a short comment, but rest assured, he is one of the most hilarious characters on the show.
Troy is African American, and a former high school football star. He strikes up a somewhat unexpected friendship with Abed, and they become BFF over the course of the first season. Troy is a little dim and naive, but he gets into all kinds of hilarious shenanigans with Abed.
Shirley is also African American, and a mom who's returned to school to get a degree after she divorced her husband. She has two kids, is a devoted Christian, and is basically the nicest person in the study group. In fact, her catchphrase is "That's nice!" She doesn't get as many storylines as she perhaps should, though she's certainly never forgotten.
And finally, Senor Chang is the study group's Spanish professor in the first season. He's pretty inept as a Spanish teacher, but he makes up for it by being the most hilarious professor. He's over the top, slightly villainous, and always entertaining.
I plan on making a more thorough and entertaining primer sometime in the next few days, but this is just the bare bones! I'm planning to request fic with Troy/Abed shenanigans because they are endlessly adorable and ridiculous (see just about every episode tag).
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Abed is Middle Eastern (of Arabic descent I believe), and he is basically the character who seems to understand that he is in a sitcom, and acts accordingly. Everyone else in the study group thinks he's strange or has Asperger's, but really, he just seems to be living by TV rules. He has a penchant for movie-making, being Batman, running a chicken finger operation, and paintball warfare. I can't hope to encapsulate Abed's awesome in a short comment, but rest assured, he is one of the most hilarious characters on the show.
Troy is African American, and a former high school football star. He strikes up a somewhat unexpected friendship with Abed, and they become BFF over the course of the first season. Troy is a little dim and naive, but he gets into all kinds of hilarious shenanigans with Abed.
Shirley is also African American, and a mom who's returned to school to get a degree after she divorced her husband. She has two kids, is a devoted Christian, and is basically the nicest person in the study group. In fact, her catchphrase is "That's nice!" She doesn't get as many storylines as she perhaps should, though she's certainly never forgotten.
And finally, Senor Chang is the study group's Spanish professor in the first season. He's pretty inept as a Spanish teacher, but he makes up for it by being the most hilarious professor. He's over the top, slightly villainous, and always entertaining.
I plan on making a more thorough and entertaining primer sometime in the next few days, but this is just the bare bones! I'm planning to request fic with Troy/Abed shenanigans because they are endlessly adorable and ridiculous (see just about every episode tag).