Community: 15 Best Ever Episodes

12. Season 2 Episode 4 - Basic Rocket Science

Community Epidemiology
NBC

One of the best episodes of Community might affirm the statement that the show doesn't always have to take place in the infamous Study Room;

As punishment for designing the Greendale College flag to resemble an anus (already hilarious), the Study Group is tasked with cleaning the school's space flight simulator; which just so happens to be a simulator sponsored by KFC.

When the simulator is towed from the Greendale parking lot with the Study Group inside (except Abed), the episode turns into a hilarious parody of Apollo 13. With the group inside the simulator trying to find a way back to the college, Abed and Dean Pelton coordinate their return from the ground in back and forth exchanges that land gags at every turn. All the while, the hijinks that ensue in the simulator make for some of the best skits the show has ever conceived.

And let's not get started on the KFC-themed tasks the group in the simulator have to endure.

The episode is hilarious on its own, but the real standout is Dean Pelton; stealing every scene he's in, the head of Greendale Community College gives us some hilarious insight into his home-life.

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