Trivia / Community S5 E09 "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing"

• Background music: The music playing in the background when Hicky convinces Shirley to join him and Jeff in the textbook sales plot, is nearly identical to Ben Kingsley's leitmotif in the 1992 DoubleCaper/heist film Sneakers.
• Corpsing: Gillian Jacobs after Dean Pelton's rap in the Cold Open, with her looking straight into the camera (and visibly biting her lips) before shifting again. Though mostly turned from the camera, there seems to be quite a lot of movement of Joel McHale's mouth, indicating he may have been fighting a laugh as well. The extra with the keyboard also has a slight hint of cracking a couple of times.
  • According to the cast, the scene took multiple takes because no one could get through the rap without cracking up, with Gillian Jacobs frequently ruining takes by laughing and looking at the camera. Dan Harmon and the editors ultimately settled on this take after reasoning that it made sense for Britta to find the situation funny.

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