EW picks the top adventures of everyone’s favorite study group.
Created byRick and Morty’sDan Harmon, the perennially low-rated, formula-obliterating comedy had a very simple setup.
One ofCommunity’s first full-blown concept episodes is also one of its best.
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Chancellor Agard
14.
Everything’s gone stop-motion in Abed’s eyes, a hallucination requiring a therapeutic trip to the North Pole.
)Darren Franich
13.
Joel McHale as Jeff Winger as ‘Community’.Harper Smith/NBC
As so often,Communitystood at the vanguard of a cultural shift and probably pushed it along.
Christian Holub
12.
It’s a riotous year full of hallucinogenic-specific concepts, showrunner cameos, and emotional farewells.
The cast of ‘Community’ as stop-motion characters on ‘Community’.NBC
“App Development” is an utmost dress-up episode, all primary-color tunics, and revolutionaries in T-shirt-y berets.
Both episodes brought an era ofCommunityto a fitting conclusion.
night out into a sweet-and-sour character piece.
Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne on ‘Community’.Lewis Jacobs/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
A key point in Donald Glover’s evolution into a dramatic force.
The sixth season has delights worth discovering Keith David!Paget Brewster!
and features one of the greatest series finales ever.
LeVar Burton as himself and Donald Glover as Troy Barnes on ‘Community’.Adam Rose/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
Another year at Greendale ends, and some study group-ers are considering bold new directions.
And theMarveljabs are only sharper now that so manyCommunitycreatives have worked in the MCU.
The result is a campus-wide pillow fight hilariously depicted in the style ofKen Burns' iconic Civil War documentary.
Joel McHale as Jeff Winger and Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett on ‘Community’.Colleen Hayes/NBC
But of course, no one does bottle episodes asCommunitydoes.
But each of these spoofs and goofs had a purpose, rooted in character and plot.
In other words, “Modern Warfare” set the bar for all the greatCommunitygenre parodies that followed.
From left: Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett, Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry, Ken Jeong as Ben Chang, and Alison Brie as Annie Edison on ‘Community’.Lewis Jacobs/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
the racist prospector!).
“There’s no such thing as a free Caesar salad!").
Of course, the half-hour is ultimately about the group’s weird and somehow unbreakable bond.
Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir and Donald Glover as Troy Barnes on ‘Community’.Justin Lubin/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
The delivery man arrives at Troy and Abed’s housewarming party.
Who will go downstairs to get the pizza and what will happen inside the apartment while they’re gone?
And now for our unicorn picks…
Unicorn No.
Donald Glover as Troy Barnes and Joel McHale as Jeff Winger on ‘Community’.Lewis Jacobs/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
So viewing this 8-bit episode today feels like a window into two lost worlds.
Unicorn No.
Unicorn No.
From left: Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry, Jim Rash as Dean Pelton, and Joel McHale as Jeff Winger on ‘Community’.
Center: Donald Glover as Troy Barnes and Jim Rash as Dean Pelton on ‘Community’.Jordin Althaus/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
From left: Joel McHale as Jeff Winger, Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry, and Alison Brie as Annie Edison on ‘Community’.NBC
Donald Glover as Troy Barnes and Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir on ‘Community’.Lewis Jacobs/NBC
Alison Brie as Annie Edison on ‘Community’.NBC/NBCU Photo Bank
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Donald Glover as Troy Barnes on ‘Community’.NBC
