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Community

2009 Yahoo! View 30 min Comedy
9our take /10
8.3IMDb /10
Community is a smart, exuberant comedy that is consistently ranked as one of the most inventive and original half-hours on television. This ensemble comedy centers around a tight-knit group of friends who all met at what is possibly the world's worst education

Our Review

The smartest sitcom of its generation, and the one that treats TV itself as a language. Dan Harmon’s study group at Greendale Community College is a perfect sitcom engine — six broken people who need each other and refuse to admit it — but the real joy is what the show does around the engine: paintball episodes shot like action films, a clip show made of episodes that never existed, an entire episode shot from inside a fridge.

Seasons 1-3 are the golden run: the daredevil ascension of Modern Warfare, the tabletop RPG of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the Remedial Chaos Theory timeline episode that every show since has tried to copy and failed. The cast is a murderer’s row — Donald Glover’s Troy leaving was the beginning of the end, but Chevy Chase’s Pierce, Alison Brie’s Annie, and Danny Pudi’s Abed (the greatest sitcom character of the 2010s, full stop) carry it through even the gas-leak year.

Verdict: Essential. Six seasons and a movie happened — now go see what all the fuss was about.

Seasons

Community — Season 1

25 episodes
Smooth talking ex-lawyer Jeff Winger has got a lot to learn, and he's come to Greendale Community College to avoid every bit…

Community — Season 2

24 episodes
As classes resume at Greendale Community College for the fall, the study group gathers to tackle this year's big class, "Anthropology 101."…

Community — Season 3

22 episodes
Jeff gets kicked out of the group's Biology class by their reformed prisoner teacher. Pierce who was out of the group takes…

Community — Season 4

13 episodes
The Study Group returns for their fourth year at Greendale which has some of them rethinking their priorities and contemplating life after…

Community — Season 5

13 episodes
America's smartest, edgiest comedy goes back to school with a vengeance! Just when you thought you'd seen and laughed at everything, along…

Community — Season 6

13 episodes
Hacked e-mails, virtual reality, schlocky sci-fi filmmaking, grifting, forbidden paintball, a giant hand, a wedding and a stage adaptation of The Karate…