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I guess that end that mystery.
Arsenio IS back, after all!I guess that end that mystery.

2013 also saw the filming of your acting debut on Community. Was creating Breaking Bad just a way of getting you closer to your true desire, to be in front of the camera?
Well, my true desire was opera singing. But this is a stepping stone towards that, absolutely.
How did the role come about?
This was a wonderful bolt from the blue. I wasn’t even remotely thinking about acting in any capacity, and then my agent called me with a request that had been forwarded from Dan Harmon at Community. Dan wanted to see if I’d be interested in appearing in an episode. I was just charmed. There was no way I was going to say no to it. Even though, I have to say, I was nervous as hell. And this is payback on a lot of levels for me. As a director, you want to make your actors as comfortable as possible, you want to communicate with them as effectively as possible, but having said that, I remember back on all the times where I knew in my heart I wasn’t giving Bryan Cranston or Aaron Paul or any of the actors exactly what they needed. I was just looking at my watch thinking, “God, we need to shoot this.” I was not as supportive sometimes as I could have or should have been. This was karmic payback for that. Having said that, though, everyone on Community was wonderful. The whole crew and the cast could not have been more enthusiastic or supportive, and I did not want to waste the crew’s time by not knowing my lines. That was one of my big phobias, as well as just basically sucking and embarrassing myself. That’s always a concern when I leave the house every day.
You play a gold-digger and you exacerbate a fight between Annie and Abed. What else can we expect from your character?
There’s a certain element to this that I don’t want to give away. But I will take a bit of a risk here and add: My character tends to employ the phrase “Yee-haw” a lot.