Community: 15 Best Ever Episodes
So when are we getting the Community Movie?
If you've never watched the American sitcom Community; the best advice you can get right now is to drop whatever it is you're doing and binge all six seasons in its entirety. If you've already watched it, give it another run just for laughs.
Conceived and developed by Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon, the show set a new standard for American sitcom shows for the 21st century, but it was completely overlooked, just about lasting six seasons before coming to a halt in 2015.
On the surface, the show presented itself as a comedy situated around seven misfit students at a fictional community college. But shortly after the premise was established, the show exploded into a completely different form of genre-defining media.
Through meta commentary and humor that pokes fun at media of the day, the 100+ episodes of the series stood on their own as great testaments to how television writing should be. Pick any episode from the trough, and you're bound to pick a classic.
In this list, I'll be taking a look at 15 of some of the best ever episodes of Community. Whether they were funny, tearful or were just brilliantly written, these episodes would stand out as "Classic Community" if you ever brought them up with a fan.
15. Season 3 Episode 5 - Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps
After the Study Group takes an anonymous psych quiz, Britta discovers that one member of the group is harboring homicidal tendencies. With the help of Jeff, Britta attempts to discreetly work out who the psychopath in the group could be by getting them to tell horror stories and gauge their reactions.
Across the episode's run, each member of the Study Group tells their own ideal horror stories which vary between hilarious and meta, and bordering on vindictive and passive aggressive.
What makes this episode one of the best, is variety in circumstance; the members of the study group let their imaginations run wild with what a scary horror story could be, whilst still playing into the characteristics of the cast;
Britta's own story is bland, Abed's skews movie tropes, Annie's is a romanced revenge tale, Troy's is delightfully naive, Pierce' plays into his ego and Shirley's leans into her religious self-righteousness.
The two-punch twist at the end reveals that Britta processed the quiz answers incorrectly, suggesting that all but one of the study group is a psychopath.
The reveal that Abed, the most atypical of the group, is not the homicidal one is a touching finish to an otherwise hilarious episode.