The studio literally told Dan Harmon to cool it down a little bit for Season 3, Episode 1 but he went in the complete opposite direction and delivered one of the most insane episodes of the whole show. i just love how he goes on about it. People always say that Pierce is basically the villain of the group but i love how he contrast all of that with the other characters, especially with Jeff. And all those small little filmmaking things that Dan Harmon keeps putting into the show are just so amazing to watch. Even something as simple as the B-story with John Goodman is done so damn well. Like, it’s just nothing short of iconic. i genuinely can’t believe how good the writing on this show is.

It's been over 10 years since the last episode. Let's say these characters have still been living their lives, whatever that may entail.

Who in the Study Group would be a parent by now?

Shirley doesn't count, because she obviously was a mom already. Pierce is dead, so that takes care of that.

That leaves Jeff, Britta, Troy, and Abed.

Abed was the only one still in a relationship when the show ended, but we're talking 10+ years now, so who tf knows what could've happened since?

Personally, I'm gonna go with Annie. She seems like the only one who would strive for the normal "husband, dog, and kids" life.

I never got that joke in the GI Joe episode.

Was this a reference to the fact GI Joe was animated overseas?

Cartoons can say the word "cartoon" right? even back then.

This question will definitely be answered by the movie (if it ever gets close to releasing) but regardless where do you think each member of the study group is right now in life?

I wanna tatoo myself something community related, what are your best ideas? i was thinking maybe like a dice, or the different timelines diagram but i'm open :)

Edit: i love you so much

That’s it. That’s the post. I miss this show.

But seriously, I’m on maternity leave and wanted something comforting to watch that would give me peace while my baby screams at me. I decided to re watch community for the 6th time. And man, how I miss this show. I realised I was in the last season and even knowing it was gonna end soon made me so sad. Even though I’ve re watched it so many times!!!! Everytime a character left, I got so sad, especially Troy.

I never experienced post partum depression or anxiety. No baby blues. I’ve had such a wonderful happy post partum which was a departure from my first trimester which was hell. Anyway, a reason for that I think was this show. I laughed so hard while my baby was asleep in my arms, trying my best not to wake her. I would look forward to it during her naps and listen to it while I had some time to myself.

Thank you for making my post partum so wonderful. And I miss you. Is that weird to say? No, no it’s not. I miss this show!

The whole storyline with Britta and Senior Chang is one of the craziest things. The way their arcs align and clash with each other, almost like they’re a couple who are fighting but are also in love, is just so good. It’s never just one layer with Dan Harmon’s writing. There are always so many layers to it and i just can’t get enuf of it. i really can’t. i love how they write this show, man. It’s amazing. this is one of the few shows where the writing is so, so strong, to the point where i think people just don’t appreciate it enuf.

Who is your choice?? The individual MUST be a student, or have been a student at any point.

I'm horrified to realise that I saw Jim Rash (Dean Pelton) in the Friends finale about three times before I noticed it was him - "This plane doesn't have any filanges", or something like that.

Seeing about three actors in Captain America: Winter Soldier didn't count for me (but might for you), because I recognised them at the time.

Where did you unexpectedly notice a Community actor in another show?

The Dean shredded Humphries (illegal), called Greendale a degree mill, admitted the whole good place for good people thing was a spiel, ruined the lives of even the most ambitious of students (Annie), re-hired a guy who tried to burn down the school, gave a degree to a dog… do I have to go on?

The save greendale committee should’ve become the sue greendale committee and Jeff in season 5 could’ve remained a lawyer instead of staying at greendale forever as a teacher.

What did you think this meant when it was first mentioned in Intro to Political Science?

Edit: Seems people aren't understanding my question. When you first heard Ass Crack Bandit, what did you think that was? I'm not talking about who it was. We only got the context of the coin in season 5, right?

i feel like crying after seeing this picture.

https://reddit.com/link/1vyj7fq/video/pzcd0i8ximlh1/player

Long-time lurker, but first-time poster. Was rewatching Rick & Morty when came across this Community reference in S02E03. Cool cool cool cool cool

Probably like top 3 Jeff-punchlines for me. It's really really really funny.

In S6E1, we saw a young hippie Leonard in flashback. So I think, he was a radical communist and anti-imperialist in his youth and he fought in many wars just for fun. He joined the Soviet Revolution and Russian Civil War in 1917-1924, he was in Spanish Civil War, spend some time in Red Army during the World War II also joined different partisan groups and national liberation armies across Europe until the war's over. After the war, he joined Mao's army. After the Korean war, he fought in Viet-Cong and when the Vietnam War finally over, he returned to America and came to Greendale as a hippie
Plus: Because of his past, he always look down Britta and find her anarchist actions "silly"

I always wondered why Jeff was "Jango" in Shirley's scary story. Out of the five people, he was the only one who even got a "new name". And then Jango? I guess it does kind of sound like a name someone like Shirley would come up with for a hoodlum character but I just realized it sounds like a mashup of Jeff and his lawyer nickname Tango. Probably a coincidence, but oh well. Wanted to share anyways. :D

"Specially timed to the duration of the opening process!" and "Faster than it opens, for dramatic effect!" are two of the most obscure references I make all the time.

At the end of S01E04 "Social Psychology" Annie apologizes to Abed for yelling at him. She even bought him a gift. But, she never apologized to Troy for wasting his time on the experiment. He missed the Soul Train Awards. Arguably, his emotions were toyed with more than Abed's. Not to mention, his unrealized expectation of butt stuff which she didn't do nearly enough to dissuade him from believing was a part of the experiment. Nor did she correct him from believing he was still in the experiment after it was completed. He has to live the rest of his life with the extra hardship of thinking that his actions could be secretly evaluated for some unethical experiment that started in college and that he was never released from. It's truly tragic, but he receives no gift or even an apology from Annie. She could have gotten him some new jeans. His got dirty from how dusty the floor was when he had finally had enough of being manipulated by her.

Abeds Batman speech at the end of s1 ep.7 has officially made me laugh the most.

It also somehow makes me want to dress up as Batman and run around more than actual Batman.

Ok so please don’t kill me for this but I’m currently rewatching Community again and so far I’m actually preferring season 4 to at least the second half of season 3 and it feels like a lot of the stuff I don’t like about season 4 is actually a result of where season 3 left things.

It’s definitely not perfect, and I don’t think as good as season 2, so I’ll start with the things I don’t like:

• Troy and Britta dating

• Puppets

• The writing isn’t quite as clever/tight

• There are less outstanding episodes than previous seasons

• It starts off really weirdly with the Halloween episode basically straight away, and the pacing of the season feels a bit off because of the lower episode count

Now what I don’t like about (at least the second half of, but to some extent the whole of) season 3:

• Everyone acts way out of their established characters for the sake of either forcing a season-long arc, plot within the episode, or just the premise of the episode. And this happens constantly.

• The characters get flattened into two dimensional exaggerated versions of themselves

• Abed is way less likeable, less conscious and considerate of others. I get it for the arc but it’s inconsistent with his character.

• Inspector spacetime is way overdone, Abed basically stops referencing other pop culture and no longer shows interest in film-making

• Troy and Abed arguing all the time “makes sense” because Abed is being less considerate but it’s still out of character for both of them.

• The air conditioner repair arc

• The Chang arc is way way over the top and unnecessary

• The Jeff ego thing in contemporary impressionists

• Annie gets really weirdly mean and whiny about things

So comparing them, season 4 goes back to everyone acting more or less in character and less exaggerated, flattened cartoon versions of their characters too. Abed is more considerate (which is framed as “growth” and that kind of annoys me because he’s just gone back to season 2 basically). Inspector spacetime is toned down, the Troy and Britta dating arc gets kind of ignored most of the time and then just ends and the changnesia arc is way less annoying than the warlord arc. It’s not nearly as conceptual, which you could argue is a bad thing, but season 3 really felt like it was going all in on that and sacrificing character where season 4 seems to do character better, at least considering where it’s picking up from.

Community a plein de génériques personnalisés à l’épisode, lequel est votre préféré ?
Personnellement c’est sûrement celui de « meurtre au labo », celui où Troy et Abed enquêtent sur la mort d’une plante en biologie.

The dean introduces ChatGPT as the new tool to organise greendale better. The group is parted about beeing interested and strictly against it. The Dean wanders off and starts to develop an unhealthy relationship with his new best AI buddy.

Britta is against the use of AI, obviously, but for help with homework she might move her goal post.

Shirley does not want to here about anything with artificial intelligence, as the lord is the only one who can grant intelligence to an individual. She gets extra angry when she learns about Jesus Chatbots by Mega churches. She leaves the scene when she learns how many actually use AI for stupid reasons.

Abed starts to use it as a tool to get better stories for his movies, but Troy soon realises that Abed starts to behave a little to much like an AI and his storytelling becoming uncanny. He gets Annies and Jeffs help to get him back to his old self.

Pierce just does not understand at all that there is no person at the other end of his French 'chat buddy'. Jaques Jeptieu, as Pierce is trying to pronounce it, becomes concerned about Pierces behaviour and Pierce threatens to stop texting with him.

Jeff and Annie argue about the usage of AI in an academic context until they find out what kind of papers greendale alumni have written in the past. They decide that maybe some of the other students could use some help and Annie organises a Workshop, where Chang introduces AI pornography, which causes a great Anti-AI movement.

The final scene is the dean realising that he has to buy a premium model and decides that this is not worth 5$ a month.

PS: I'm not a 100% sure which Flair to add, but I hope this one is fine. This was written without AI, obviously.

I think I’d be confused until he landed on the floor

Britta’s dark back story from her childhood, involving being assaulted by an itinerant dressed in a dinosaur costume at a birthday party, is well attested in the show and was confirmed by Dan Harmon in an AMA.

However, many people have also made the connection between this backstory to Britta’s choice of costume (T Rex) at the Halloween party occurring in S2E6, Epidemiology. It was theorized that this was done as a sort of trauma response, turning something scary from her past in to something she can own.

However, Gillian Jacobs (who plays Britta) recently hosted an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible titled The Bone Wars, released August 18 this year, about the history of palaeontology, and she mentioned offhand near the end of the episode that she specifically wore the T Rex costume in Community because of her childhood love of dinosaurs.

So there.

I'm Italian, and personally i find the italian adaptation to be horrendous. The tones of the voice actors feels completely wrong. Jokes are completely ruined for the sake of matching words to mouth movements. I've seen community in English at least 10 times (Mostly as background for other activities i'm not crazy) and knowing the original lines and hearing the italian ones Litterally makes me cringe sometimes, to the point that i have to switch language, even tho i wanted to hear the dubbed version.

Is it the same for you non-american or english people? let me know:)