The Dean introduces her as Francesca Dart, and later in the episode Annie calls her Frankie. From then on, that's her name. At no point does she say, "call me Frankie." Did the group nickname her spontaneously and she just went along with it?

Terrible digital estate throw away art by me for attention

Today is my 41st birthday. I’ve spent the last two months with an injured back, mostly in bed. Between getting to doctors appointments, figuring out financials, and spending copious amounts of time pondering the purpose of existence, I can essentially only be on my phone, watch TV, or read.

This has me analyzing what I’m consuming on a deeper level than I ever have before. It has led me to this conclusion:

Community is one of the greatest pieces of human art ever created.

Human beings aren’t perfect. I could sit here and go through each character’s story arc and explain how they represent little pieces of our own personalities personified. Chances are, if you’re on this sub, you already know this.
To me, the show gives us a small, working example of how we should be treating each other. Always understanding that no one is perfect, but as long as we’re picking each other up when we’re at our lowest, we can not only function, but actually enjoy ourselves in the process.
And I think the best example of how the show expresses this is Pierce. Both the character and Chevy Chase.

For too long, we’ve excused away or simply accepted the behavior of people like Pierce/Chase. I think, to an extent, that’s part of how we wound up with today’s USA.
Community shows the distinction between accepting someone’s flaws and endlessly tolerating their shitty behavior remarkably well.

Pierce has some genuinely redeeming moments. He wins the paintball game and gives the $100,000 prize to Greendale, despite being rich and having absolutely no need for the money himself. There are moments where you can see the person underneath all of his bullshit. But, for the most part, he refuses to grow.

That’s what separates him from the rest of the group. They’re all deeply flawed people. They all hurt each other. They’re selfish, manipulative, judgmental, controlling, immature. The show never asks us to pretend otherwise.
But they keep coming back. They keep trying. They keep picking each other up. Pierce keeps getting opportunities to do the same, and eventually there has to be a line.
Which makes what happened outside the show almost too perfect.

Pierce gets killed off because he dehydrated himself by masturbating too much.

Chevy loses the role.

There’s something strangely fitting about a show called Community demonstrating, both on screen and off, that community doesn’t mean accepting everyone’s behavior forever.

People deserve grace. People deserve forgiveness. People deserve the opportunity to be better. But being part of a community also means making an effort to be someone the community can continue to embrace.

Thanks for reading!

Is this what caused him to go crazy?

I was bored and wrote down the first line of every study group member and I noticed that Pierce's first appearance is physical comedy instead of a line. That fits so well into his boomer role. Here are all the other first lines:

Abed: "I'm only half Arabic actually, my dad is Palestinian ..." (He talks too fast, I couldnt write the whole thing down)

Jeff: "Abed, nice to know you and then meet you, in that order"

Britta: "Ehh don't hit me on me, okay?"

Pierce: "Are you the board certified tutor?"

Troy: "That means you do homework, right Seacrest?"

Annie: "What 'board certifies' a tutor?"

Shirley: "I need to call my babysitter if we gonna be later than 10"

First lines of comitee members:

Chang: "Every once in a while students come up to me and ask Señor Chang, why do you teach spanish?"

Duncan: "Jeff Winger, genius at law!"

Hickey: "Fresh meat, huh?"

Elroy: "Who's asking?"

And my favorite character intro of the show:

Franky: "Okay, I'll just have a seat and - "

Group: "NOOO!"

Annie: "Our friend used to sit there"

Abed: *whispers* "She spun off"

“What i am allowed to discuss is Greendale. And I’ll say this.. don’t turn your back on it. Take it from a man with no legal right to be there, you’re in a SPECIAL place.. a crappy place, sure… but only because it gives crappy people a chance to sort themselves out.”

It never sits right with me when people hate on Chevy, always makes me think of all the time the group tries to kick him out.

“Pierce isn’t crazy… the table IS magic…. it is a scary lonely chang filled world out there”

When we cut people off in life we miss out on a lot of goodness they can bring. I love Pierces character cause we see his issues but then you get to see how being a part of the group starts to heal him at the end of season 3. Teaches us the best thing you can do for someone in your life who is causing problems is to accept them and help them to change. That’s what I believe Greendale is all about.

Pierces character pretty much mirrors Chevy’s personality we all know that, but we just got to remember Chevy is just a Human Being and he deserves to be at Greendale with the group because Greendale crappy because it gives crappy people a chance.

TL;DR: Crappy people belong at Greendale