Items15The creator’s order
  1. 1Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 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 Jeff Winger, a fast-talking lawyer whose degree has been revoked, lands at Greendale Community College and ends up leading a study group of misfits: an older man sure of his own wisdom, a 28-year-old dropout with something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…0
  2. 2Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Introduction to Statistics," Season 1, Episode 7 (2009) The first Halloween episode is low on gimmicks and high on character, which makes it a good test of whether the ensemble works for you. Jeff tries to slip away from Annie's Day of the Dead party for a date with his statistics professor,…0
  3. 3Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 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…0
  4. 4Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Modern Warfare," Season 1, Episode 23 (2010) The episode that turned Community from a promising sitcom into a cult object. A campus paintball game with early class registration as the prize escalates into a full action movie, and Greendale becomes an all-out war zone. Fast and Furious director…0
  5. 5Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Epidemiology," Season 2, Episode 6 (2010) A school Halloween party, a biohazard that gets eaten by mistake and a dean who locks everyone inside add up to a zombie outbreak, and the episode commits to it with horror-movie homages from start to finish. It works as an entry point because the premise…0
  6. 6Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Cooperative Calligraphy," Season 2, Episode 8 (2010) Annie's pen goes missing, she is sure someone in the study group took it, and the group locks itself in the study room until it turns up. That is the whole setup: a bottle episode, the cheap one-set format most shows try to hide, which…0
  7. 7Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas," Season 2, Episode 11 (2010) Abed wakes up convinced the world has turned into stop-motion animation, and the whole episode is animated that way, in the style of the old Rankin/Bass holiday specials. It looks like a novelty, but underneath it is one of the show's…0
  8. 8Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Advanced Dungeons & Dragons," Season 2, Episode 14 (2011) Almost the entire episode is the study group sitting around a table playing Dungeons & Dragons, and it is somehow one of the most exciting half hours of the series. The group sets up a game to cheer up Neil, a lonely fellow student, until…0
  9. 9Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"Critical Film Studies," Season 2, Episode 19 (2011) The group plans a Pulp Fiction themed birthday surprise for Abed, but he sets up a different dinner with Jeff at another restaurant, and the episode turns into a parody of My Dinner with Andre, a film that is almost nothing but two people…0
  10. 10Community (2009)Community (2009) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired Sep 17, 2009"A Fistful of Paintballs" and "For a Few Paintballs More," Season 2, Episodes 23 and 24 (2011) The season two finale is a two-part sequel to the first paintball game, and it goes bigger in every direction. Part one plays the campus game as a spaghetti western, right down to titles borrowed from…0