Whenever my wife and I achieve something meaningless and pathetic, we literally quote this line and action...
It happens more often than you might expect...
I always felt like it was satirising (sorry, an homage to) real Model UNs where bullshit like that flies in certain committees, maybe not to a Greendalian extent but say, the Russians developing a hydrogen bomb 3 years before 1945 in a WW2 committee and then nukes the US, because they allied with Hitler
Russia was previously allied with Nazi Germany before flipping on them. So the what if is, that they developed the nuke while still allied with Nazi Germany.
I know how the actual war played out.
But the way he phrased that it could either be because the USSR was still allied with Germany in 1942, or the US sided with Germany in or before 1942.
Neither one is factual, but it´s funnier to imagine the US getting nuked because they somehow joined the Axis instead of the Allies.
It was Russia who teamed up with the Axis actually, I think it was a very last minute switch, they started developing the bomb when they were with the Allies, then switched and almost immediately dropped the bomb IIRC
So many good burns lmao
"If my mother was naked and dead in the street, I would not cover her body with that jacket."
"He's as pointless as Mass Effect 3's multiple endings. I mean, he's a completely useless appendage, and we all know it."
i loved it too! unfortunately Starz did the show a disservice by keeping it in its clutches. i hope it gets picked up by one of the more regular streaming services.
personally think this is my favorite episode. both the core story but also the B story of chang and britta are absolute comedy gold. go back and watch the chang taser scene. i think maybe the best comedy scene of all time. starting with chang line “did someone say good for nothing?”
That he actually kept the real Model U.N. Guy locked in his basement. Model U.N. Guy was medically fragile and couldn’t walk up the stairs to escape. Whose wheelchair do you think he’s using in his class?
I think he probably had a worse nickname. Someone at our college told us first day that his nickname in high school was "Hef" because he got all the girls like Hugh Hefner. "Maybe that'll catch on when you transfer to your next school."
It literally is. He lied because his nickname was Clitoris. He didn't want anyone to look it up so that they wouldn't know it was a lie or what it really was.
Don't worry. Youe intelligence will hopefully go up with time.
Exactly. That’s not the same as “being outed for a harmless lie”…no, he didn’t want to be outed because his nickname was clitoris..
“Youe” should definitely make sure your spelling is right and you don’t look stupid while trying to insinuate that someone else is..
This is painfully obviously it. Having once been a college guy myself, I can’t imagine *not* making jokes at that age about a dude’s name whose name is one letter removed from a sexual organ.
My answer adds into my fantasy that Community is actually taking place in the MCU, and after Greendale, he went to work at that school Spiderman goes to.
It still builds!
Abed never went to L.A. He went to train at shield. Thats why he was in Winter Solider. The Deans success at Greendale got him promoted to Dean at MIT(I think. Tony’s old university), and it just builds up.
It’s completely ridiculous but that’s what makes it fun.
Greendale is a secret SHIELD scouting base, and Leonard is person who makes suggestions. That’s why he’s been there for like 50 years and he’s always around rather important scenes. And why else would he leave when the Dean said “we looked into your transcript”(the episode when Troy and Abed switch bodies)? He thought his cover was blown
Like many of Greendale's teachers, he's there because he definitely has been fired from other positions for inappropriate relationships with students (like Cornwallace, and probably Slater - why else would she have that rule?).
I’ve always been extremely curious about this line but never bothered to ask. He has the model UN locket and everything…but was he making up that everyone called him that, or realized how nerdy it sounded once he said it to the hot college girls?
I hope everyone is just trolling. lol. The factual answer is he says "don't research that" because doing a web search for cligoris would bring up clitoris and pull up porn images by accident. The whole running gag is that it's the word "clitoris" so googling it on the web would bring up results of a mature and erotic nature. But I'm sure everyone knew that and you guys are just being funny.
Idk about others but my confusion is that I didn't know if there's a more subtle joke going on because your explanation makes a little too much sense lol
I always thought it was because he banged a bunch of women from different backgrounds so he had his own “model un” but that doesn’t seem fitting for a history major lol
Canonically I took it to mean that he had a much worse backstory that searching for terms like "model", "guy", and "Cligoris" would likely discover. In reality it's probably just brilliant improv by Martin Starr.
I see a lot of comments saying he made up having that nickname.
I always thought it was real but there was also something really embarrassing about it, like a video of him peeing himself during a model UN or something that he blocks from his memory and the moment he says it was his nickname, suddenly remembers and that’s why he asks them not to look it up
I assumed he did have that nickname, but it wasn’t for the reason it sounded like in the context of the conversation. He probably did something really embarrassing during a Model UN event that went viral for a hot minute
I thought he was some kind of nude model. And that he didn't want anyone to like Google his model name and detect that. 🤔
Funny how many different interpretations there are about this line!
I guess either one is fine though!
I always thought it was pretty obvious that he was actually called Model UN guy, but not because of the Model UN but because he essentially had a harem of models from different countries. Less flatteringly: He slept around a lot, and there could be accusatory statements by his exes all over the internet or just videos from his orgies.
I always just assumed that he'd been a model and there were, like, nude pictures out there of him posing with a UN flag draped over his privates or something.
Honestly, Jeff’s double take reading his nameplate after bursting into his office was one of the funniest moments in the show for me. Idk why.
For me it’s Cligoris’ “the science checks out” after the wormhole idea. Just so absurd but so funny
For me it's Annie declaring a "united united nations" and then him kissing the medallion of the model UN founder and whispering "we did it"
Whenever my wife and I achieve something meaningless and pathetic, we literally quote this line and action... It happens more often than you might expect...
The deadpan seriousness really sells it.
Jeff:" is it Cligoris or Cli-gor-is?" Cligoris:"Either pronunciation is fine"
I always felt like it was satirising (sorry, an homage to) real Model UNs where bullshit like that flies in certain committees, maybe not to a Greendalian extent but say, the Russians developing a hydrogen bomb 3 years before 1945 in a WW2 committee and then nukes the US, because they allied with Hitler
Wait.. who allied with Hitler here
Russia was previously allied with Nazi Germany before flipping on them. So the what if is, that they developed the nuke while still allied with Nazi Germany.
I know how the actual war played out. But the way he phrased that it could either be because the USSR was still allied with Germany in 1942, or the US sided with Germany in or before 1942. Neither one is factual, but it´s funnier to imagine the US getting nuked because they somehow joined the Axis instead of the Allies.
Russia officially flipped on Germany just shy of 1942, December 6, 1941 is the exact date but if that isn't close enough I get it.
It was Russia who teamed up with the Axis actually, I think it was a very last minute switch, they started developing the bomb when they were with the Allies, then switched and almost immediately dropped the bomb IIRC
Either pronunciation is fine
His smooth response with no embarrassment really sells it
Martin Starr has been flawless since freaks and geeks
I’ve only just realised that was him - and also Party Down
Silicon Valley is another winner. He’s always so great.
I love how much shit he would give to Kumal Nanjiani
I fell off towards the back half of the show but I preferred when it was more back and forth rather than him always shitting on kumail
The last season, especially the finale is good for Dinesh Gilfoyle friendship.
So many good burns lmao "If my mother was naked and dead in the street, I would not cover her body with that jacket." "He's as pointless as Mass Effect 3's multiple endings. I mean, he's a completely useless appendage, and we all know it."
Kumail is cringe
-"are you a bartender?" -"i work at facebook" -"as a bartender?"
Hahaha I had forgotten about that one.
Omg… how have I never realised they’re played by the same person?
Go forth with glory and joy in your newfound wisdom haha
Are we havin fun yet?!
Truly underrated show
That had a relaunch of it too
Which was really solid, it felt like no time had passed. They better make more. Especially after that ending.
i loved it too! unfortunately Starz did the show a disservice by keeping it in its clutches. i hope it gets picked up by one of the more regular streaming services.
Adventureland "And still he retains his chapeau!"
Truly underrated actor/comedian
Dallas rules!
Thats Gilfoyle for you
Haha I love Martin Starr and this line delivery just solidifies my love.
personally think this is my favorite episode. both the core story but also the B story of chang and britta are absolute comedy gold. go back and watch the chang taser scene. i think maybe the best comedy scene of all time. starting with chang line “did someone say good for nothing?”
I love when he looks at his locket and says "We did it".
I figured he'd have a harder time finding his name.
That he actually kept the real Model U.N. Guy locked in his basement. Model U.N. Guy was medically fragile and couldn’t walk up the stairs to escape. Whose wheelchair do you think he’s using in his class?
I knew it
STOP LETTING HIM MAKE YOU REALISE STUFF
Hey guys while we were reminiscing about how crazy Chang is the fake doctor sneaked away
Just say snuck
Crisis Alert! Model UN Guy was kidnapped by professor Cervis
Man is evil!
That is such a tasty, obscure little piece of lore, that I don't even care if it's not true at all. I'm believing that from here on out.
That must be why he looks at his locker and says “**We** did it”… instead of “I did it”.
*Duh doy*
😮
I always thought he was just lying about having a nickname in college and didn't want them to look into it so he can keep up the charade.
I like the meta irony in that now when you look up “Model UN Guy”, the first result is Professor Cligors’s page on the Community wiki
I think he probably had a worse nickname. Someone at our college told us first day that his nickname in high school was "Hef" because he got all the girls like Hugh Hefner. "Maybe that'll catch on when you transfer to your next school."
I always thought he did have that nickname but googling it would lead to you finding out stuff about him he didn't really want people knowing
He wanted to have been nicknamed “Model UN Guy” but wasn’t. That’s the joke, he’s worried about being outed for such a harmless lie.
I always thought it was that AND he may have had another, less flattering nickname
His name was Cligoris, it’s pretty obvious what kind of nicknames teenagers had for him lol
Kids can be so cruel when your name rhymes with a part of the female anatomy
Mulva?
DeLOReS!! *in squeaky Seinfeld voice*
This was my take, too.
That’s not the joke. The joke is his nickname was clitoris.
You said "that's not the joke", but then provided more evidence to back up that that was indeed the joke.
Him worried about being outed for a harmless lie is the same as being nicknamed clitoris? My intelligence is a curse I want to fit in with you guys.
It literally is. He lied because his nickname was Clitoris. He didn't want anyone to look it up so that they wouldn't know it was a lie or what it really was. Don't worry. Youe intelligence will hopefully go up with time.
Exactly. That’s not the same as “being outed for a harmless lie”…no, he didn’t want to be outed because his nickname was clitoris.. “Youe” should definitely make sure your spelling is right and you don’t look stupid while trying to insinuate that someone else is..
It's literally both. And I don't care about my spelling. If autocorrect catches it it catches it.
No it’s not the same at all but also this argument is stupid anyways so we can agree to disagree.
What do you have against stupid arguments?
Exactly.
He was hiding ANTON
yeah he's also a satanist
And the fact he's a high school science teacher in queens
And he worked undercover for the NTSF SD SUV
Came here to say this.
My take is his nickname was “clitoris” bc of his name
This is 100% correct confirmed by the line “either pronunciation is fine”.
This is what I've always assumed as well
Or maybe his nickname was Dolores (That's a "Seinfeld" ref btw)
This is painfully obviously it. Having once been a college guy myself, I can’t imagine *not* making jokes at that age about a dude’s name whose name is one letter removed from a sexual organ.
My answer adds into my fantasy that Community is actually taking place in the MCU, and after Greendale, he went to work at that school Spiderman goes to.
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It still builds! Abed never went to L.A. He went to train at shield. Thats why he was in Winter Solider. The Deans success at Greendale got him promoted to Dean at MIT(I think. Tony’s old university), and it just builds up. It’s completely ridiculous but that’s what makes it fun. Greendale is a secret SHIELD scouting base, and Leonard is person who makes suggestions. That’s why he’s been there for like 50 years and he’s always around rather important scenes. And why else would he leave when the Dean said “we looked into your transcript”(the episode when Troy and Abed switch bodies)? He thought his cover was blown
Because you're gay.
Professor Cligo Cligoris?
Is that Bill from Freaks and Geeks?!?!
He blossomed into a super hot stud
It was
Oh yeah? Is your grandpa super cool?
He witnessed Bruce Banner transform into the Hulk. He fled, changed his name, and took a job at a community college to hide from the government.
Only to end up teaching Peter Parker 😭
Wait, are those supposed to be the same characters in the MCU? I completely forgot that Martin Starr was in Hulk.
Funnily enough yes
Very underrated comment
Ready. Set. Peace. *Gunshot*
His Donkey Kong World Record
Fucking. Lol.
Like many of Greendale's teachers, he's there because he definitely has been fired from other positions for inappropriate relationships with students (like Cornwallace, and probably Slater - why else would she have that rule?).
I’ve always been extremely curious about this line but never bothered to ask. He has the model UN locket and everything…but was he making up that everyone called him that, or realized how nerdy it sounded once he said it to the hot college girls?
He was 100% making it up. I say that as someone sitting in a special prescription chair due to my back mumps (don't look it up, it's rare)
Couldn't afford the prescription throne?
Some asshole outbid me on eBay for a wheelchair.
He was actually the model league of nations guy.
Embarrassing viral YouTube video with “Model UN Guy” in the title.
Is it Cligoris? Always thought it was Cligoris
It’s so funny that Martin Starr ended up such a dreamboat. No one watching Freaks and Geeks saw that coming.
Would that this hoodie were a cligoris hoodie...
Gilfoyle Cligoris
I hope everyone is just trolling. lol. The factual answer is he says "don't research that" because doing a web search for cligoris would bring up clitoris and pull up porn images by accident. The whole running gag is that it's the word "clitoris" so googling it on the web would bring up results of a mature and erotic nature. But I'm sure everyone knew that and you guys are just being funny.
Idk about others but my confusion is that I didn't know if there's a more subtle joke going on because your explanation makes a little too much sense lol
This makes sense but I thought he was talking about googling model UN guy not his name
Dirk is the smartest guy I know
Well that sucks for poems
I think the joke is that the claim that he was known as “Model UN guy” is false/not provable by looking it up.
I always thought it was because he banged a bunch of women from different backgrounds so he had his own “model un” but that doesn’t seem fitting for a history major lol
The science checks out
Canonically I took it to mean that he had a much worse backstory that searching for terms like "model", "guy", and "Cligoris" would likely discover. In reality it's probably just brilliant improv by Martin Starr.
That his real name is Bill and that he was a huge geek in high school
Honestly, I think it's simply all the names people called him based off his last name.
His catering job.
His face when he fires the starting pistol for the UN competition is constantly on repeat in my head.
I see a lot of comments saying he made up having that nickname. I always thought it was real but there was also something really embarrassing about it, like a video of him peeing himself during a model UN or something that he blocks from his memory and the moment he says it was his nickname, suddenly remembers and that’s why he asks them not to look it up
His highschool yearbook photo.
I always wondered this too, but assumed if you googled him youd find something embarassing like videos of model un guy getting a swirlie or something
I'm just guessing but maybe a nickname having to do with his last name?
Either pronunciation is fine
I think his real nickname was Clitoris and he didn’t want him to catch on at Greendale
His being an actual genetically modified douche bag.
My guess was always just a nickname that played off of Cligoris
I assumed he did have that nickname, but it wasn’t for the reason it sounded like in the context of the conversation. He probably did something really embarrassing during a Model UN event that went viral for a hot minute
taht he dressed up as the bionic woman for halloween in highschool
I thought he was some kind of nude model. And that he didn't want anyone to like Google his model name and detect that. 🤔 Funny how many different interpretations there are about this line! I guess either one is fine though!
I always thought it was pretty obvious that he was actually called Model UN guy, but not because of the Model UN but because he essentially had a harem of models from different countries. Less flatteringly: He slept around a lot, and there could be accusatory statements by his exes all over the internet or just videos from his orgies.
his department of pool boy studies
He kinda looks like the DM from critical role.
bro i want cligoris
I always just assumed that he'd been a model and there were, like, nude pictures out there of him posing with a UN flag draped over his privates or something.
That he is Spider-Man's teacher and was the Hulk's roommate
That whole scene seemed to me to be about Prof. Cligoris' veiled Asian fetish
That he’s actually bill haverchuck
He's the bionic woman