20 More TV Shows That Are Practically Flawless

20. Community

Dan Harmon's subversive and wonderfully meta sitcom Community follows the exploits of Joel McHale's disgraced lawyer Jeff Winger, who accidentally sets up a study group consisting of a gaggle of mismatched misfits, loons and outsiders who constantly get into a wide variety of surreal misadventures.

Paying homage to cinema and TV's most recognisable tropes and clichés, the six-season series made an hilarious artform out of pushing the boundaries and expectations of the sitcom formula. It would spoof Goodfellas one minute, analyse the merits of Nic Cage the next, and venture into alternate realities without issue.

As a whole, Community hit some snags around season four, when Harmon controversially left his role as showrunner, but even its less enticing second half the show was the most intelligent and witty sitcom on air, boosted to greatness by its inventive structure and wonderfully game cast.