Community: 15 Best Ever Episodes

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.