6 Things Community Needs To Do If They Get Season 6

6. No More Dystopian Society Episodes

Some of Community's best episodes have been when Greendale College has devolved into dark chaos during seemingly harmless and fun games or activities. Carnage and destruction befall the school while social structure immediately breaks down and new power groups are established. As the game ends so does the new balance of power and Greendale students blink back into the real world and things quickly go back to normal. Although seeds of this concept were laid in previous episodes, they didn't do a full-blown dystopian society episode until the infamous season one Paintball Episode. Widely regarded as a Community favorite, the episode featured the Study Group fighting to survive a campus wide paintball game with various other groups banded together and the campus on the verge of total destruction. We would soon see this concept again in various forms: a zombie episode, a two-part paintball redux with a western and war theme, and a campus wide battle over pillow and blanket forts. So far in a short season five, however, we've already had two of these episodes. Once, a campus wide game of Hot Lava which featured enough cleverness to seem somewhat fresh and just recently an episode featuring a Social Network App that by many accounts, did not. While the main overlying concept of the episode was to help Jeff and Shirley ultimately bond, fans will recall back in season one that all it took was simple gossip to connect the two. The App idea was funny but having the school break so far into caste groups seemed excessive and so similar to previous episodes, especially one earlier in the season. Season six would serve well to not repeat this trope again because while the situations are unique, the underlying concept is now stale and tired.