You know the trope: the smartass whose coolness washes over the fact that he’s a womanizing dick with a terrible work ethic suddenly sees the light and assembles his gang of followers and lights their burners with an inspired bit of oration, cementing himself as the group’s de facto leader and the hero of our show, film, whatever…

Look at Bill Murray in Meatballs or Stripes for examples, or look at Joel McHale’s work on Community and the many speeches he delivered to his study group, inspiring unity and action. In essence, McHale’s Jeff Winger is the spawn of so many Murray characters. A point of origin that Community creator Dan Harmon has made known he wanted to make literal on the show before the “Gas Leak Year” and the casting of James Brolin as Jeff’s dad put the ultimate kibosh on that.

But while we’ll never get a Winger/Murray moment (or maybe we will. Who knows with that show), we can still celebrate the very best Winger speeches, especially today as McHale readies to host The ESPY’s, an awards show dedicated to athletes — a group of people who thrive on Winger-esque locker room speeches, albeit ones with a bit more profanity.

“I hereby pronounce you a community”

This is Pullman in Independence Day-level speechifying. This is the moment the Avengers stopped squabbling and assembled.

“I want to say some names to you…”

Jeff’s way with words is clearly a leftover benefit of his years as a lawyer. Here, he takes an obviously flawed defendant and tries to spin him as a safer option to the group due to his hatred for Rich, the always smiling kettle-corn having monster. Basically, the crux of Jeff’s speech is, “The devil you know, am-I-rite?” but if that was all he said, it wouldn’t be a Winger Speech, now would it?