[rahimnathwani]

My favourite joke from Community:

I thought you got your degree online from Colombia?

Yes, but they want a real degree from America

[marginalia_nu]

My favorite bit is where they keep having the same food every day. It's sort of mentioned in passing here and there throughout the episode but not really foreground material. Then at the end of the episode, it's revealed the dean is learning Excel and accidentally pasted over the entire column with the same value.

[rospaya]

This one might be the most appropriate since it's a joke about jokes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMT7MAnJna8

[tomjakubowski]

Columbia, not Colombia. That's the joke

[stavros]

Wait, now I'm really curious as to what you think the joke was.

[rahimnathwani]

Sorry, wrote my comment in a hurry. I understood the joke the same way everyone else did...

- he told people he got his degree from Col*mbia (both place names are pronounced the same)

- people (naturally) assumed he meant Columbia

- the punchline reveals that it was actually Colombia

- the punchline also hints that he got his degree by buying a certificate online, rather than doing bona fide online learning

[stavros]

Ah OK, I thought you thought they said Colombia initially, and I was wondering if you found something else in it funny.

Interestingly, to me, Colombia and Columbia don't sound the same, but I'm not a native speaker and I tend to think of words in terms of their spelling rather than their pronunciation.

[titanomachy]

In Spanish they sound different. In English, most people pronounce them both like “Columbia”.

[rahimnathwani]

Right. The two being pronounced the same is essential to the joke.