Community (2009)

"Contemporary American Poultry," Season 1, Episode 21 (2010) This is the episode where you find out whether the parody side of Community is for you. A scheme to get the study group better access to the cafeteria's chicken fingers turns into a full Goodfellas homage, voiceover and all, with Abed running the operation. The joke is not just the borrowed style: it is that the mob-movie rise and fall fits the group's petty power struggles almost perfectly. If you laugh here, the bigger genre swings later in the list will land.