10 Things You Learn Rewatching Community
1. Jeff Makes The Group Actively Worse People
Dan Harmon is a really talented writer and producer, and has made some excellent shows, but sometimes it really does seem like he only knows how to write ONE kind of protagonist: the jerk who is supposed to be a bad person, but their badness isn't properly addressed or explored, leading to the intent most likely flying right over the audience's heads.
Case in point, one of the most famous episodes of the show, Remedial Chaos Theory. In this comedic exploration of multiverse theory, a single roll of the dice leads to various different universes where the gang's lives are permanently and ridiculously screwed up until we return to our original universe, where we find the one difference between the original and diverging timelines: Jeff is the one who goes to get the pizza.
This is the only difference between the original and the other timelines, and the outcome is the polar opposite of all of them - with the gang enjoying pizza and singing along to Roxanne. In all the others the gang either kills each other, grow further apart, or in the best of the other timelines, just become SUPER awkward with each other.
Jeff is the element of chaos that actively makes the other members of the study group worse people with his mere presence.