Community (2009)

"Pilot," Season 1, Episode 1 (2009) Start at the start. Jeff Winger, a fast-talking lawyer whose degree has been revoked, lands at Greendale Community College and ends up leading a study group of misfits: an older man sure of his own wisdom, a 28-year-old dropout with something to prove, a divorced mom, a former high school football star, a high-strung perfectionist and Abed, a pop-culture junkie. It is more conventional than what follows, and that is the point for a newcomer: you meet everyone and learn their rhythms before the show starts bending its own format. Half the later concept episodes only work because you know these seven this well.