| “ | The true repairman will repair man. | „ |
| ~ Robert Laybourne to Troy. |
| “ | You could have lived the rest of your life in blissful ignorance and died a happy pansexual imp. But you wanted to feel power this year. Well, now you're going to feel my power as it surges downward from me, straight through you from nostril to rectum now until the end of time. And that's... wassup. | „ |
| ~ Robert Laybourne to Dean Pelton. |
Vice Dean Robert Laybourne is the secondary antagonist of Season 3 of the sitcom Community.
He is the Vice Dean of Greendale and the head of the Air Conditioning Repair School. Seeing potential in Troy as an AC repairman, Laybourne utilizes his power within Greendale to manipulate Troy into leaving the Study Group and joining his AC business.
He was portrayed by John Goodman, who also played Layton T. Montgomery in Bee Movie, Marshall in The Hangover film franchise, Big Dan Teague in O Brother Where Art Thou, Chuck Long in Evan Almighty, Bones Darley in Death Sentence, Howard Stambler in 10 Cloverfield Lane, and Ocious P. Potter in The Borrowers.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Robert Laybourne was the head of Greendale's Air Conditioning Repair annex. The school was also a religious cult, and he was the cult leader. He thought he was the messiah known as the "Truest Repairman", but realized he was not. Instead, he dedicated himself to finding the Truest Repairman. He managed to make the Air Conditioning school extremely successful by getting all of the alumni jobs and receiving alumni donations in return.
Season Three[]
Laybourne bought an espresso machine for the school. Dean Pelton found out about this and criticized Laybourne for spending unnecessary money. Laybourne brought the Dean to the Air Conditioning Repair School and informed him about how all Greendale's money comes from there. He then told the Dean how he would control him from now on, and forcibly shaved off the Dean's Goatee.
When Murray saw Troy was skilled at AC repair, he told Laybourne, who had Troy and other students kidnapped. They made the students show their abilities of AC repair, and Tory was the best. Laybourne asked Troy to join the AC repair school but Troy refused. However, Murray informed Laybourne that Troy fixed an extremely difficult AC problem, making Laybourne even more determined to recruit him. When Troy and Abed disagreed about whether to construct a pillow fort or a blanket fort, Laybourne manipulated them into starting a war with each other, hoping to drive them apart. When that didn't work, Laybourne tried to blackmail the Dean into convincing Troy to join the AC repair school, but the Dean only gave a half-hearted attempt.
After Ben Chang took over the school, Troy went to Murray for help. Troy promised to join the AC repair school in return for Murray's help. Troy was forced to leave his friends and move into the AC repair school. Vice Dean Laybourne tried to convince Troy that he was the Truest Repair Man, although Troy found the concept ridiculous. Shortly afterwards, Murray killed Laybourne by tricking him into repairing a unit with a leaky Freon tube.
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