Turning him into a Gollum-like figure ... took some of his tools away as a comedian. I didn’t want to just keep him as a teacher from the first season to second season, which was why I changed things up. But having him be a peripheral character, running around the sagebrush in the second season — I craved seeing him in a very specific role of authority again. And we're going to be doing that, and we're setting that up in the first episode of Season 3.

If last year we were a bunch of loose pearls that were rolling all over the floor that you could slip on, hopefully this year those pearls will have a string through them that makes them all one thing.

Any other new characters?
[We're adding] the vice-dean of Greendale's air conditioning repair annex. The Greendale Community College only has one part of it that is actually nationally renowned, and it's their air conditioning repair program. And it's sort of a separate annex on the campus that puts itself above the rest of the school, and ironically has more power than the campus itself. It's much like a Big Ten university's football coach having more power than any administrator or faculty. It's going to be part of a larger story that I think should be really cool.

oo sounds awesome. he mentioned the wire before too. so im imagining the group goes on a taping mission of this air conditioner repair place