10 Most Insane TV Show Storylines Ever

8. Community's 'Darkest Timeline' Story

How I Met Your Mother may have made its name on gimmicked stories, but Community is the real deal: an off-the-wall sitcom set at a community college that€™'s given the 21st century television audience some of the wildest and weirdest episodes they've ever experienced. Individual stories have seen: a Claymation Christmas episode, a war between blanket forts in the halls of the college, several iterations of the paintball war€ there are just too many to count, each utterly brilliant in their own way.

But one of the best and most popular episodes of all time, a dinner party at the apartment with the whole group invited, takes the biscuit. Season Three's 'Remedial Chaos Theory' invites us to explore (via a roll of a die) the various alternate ways in which the evening could have gone had a different member of the group gone downstairs to collect the pizza. Each 'timeline' created was hilarious enough, but the final timeline - dubbed, "the darkest timeline", sees Pierce die due to an infected leg wound, Jeff lose an arm, Troy lose his larynx, Annie be committed while Shirley becomes an alcoholic. Britta ends up just dying a blue streak into her hair, indicating that even the darkest version of herself is still clueless. All because Troy went and got the pizza.

The show would return to 'the darkest timeline' later on in the third season, and again in the fourth, as the characters from that alternate universe would attempt to take over the Prime Timeline, in a nod to Star Trek that Community has now managed to completely usurp and make its own.