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Community (TV series)

January 13, 2023

Community is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon. The series ran for 110 episodes over six seasons, with its first five seasons airing on NBC from September 17, 2009, to April 17, 2014, and its final season airing on Yahoo! Screen from March 17 to June 2, 2015. Set at a community college in the fictional Colorado town of Greendale, the series stars an ensemble cast including Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, and Jim Rash. It makes use of meta-humor and pop culture references, paying homage to film and television clichés and tropes.

Community
Genre
Created byDan Harmon
Starring
Opening theme"At Least It Was Here" by The 88
ComposerLudwig Göransson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes110 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Production locations
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time
  • 22 minutes (seasons 1–5)
  • 24–30 minutes (season 6)
Production companies
  • Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment
  • Sony Pictures Television
  • Open 4 Business Productions
  • Universal Television
  • Dan Harmon Productions (season 1–3)
  • Russo Brothers Films (season 1–3)
  • Harmonious Claptrap (season 5–6)
  • Yahoo! Studios (season 6)
DistributorSony Pictures Television
Release
Original network
Picture formatHDTV 1080i
Audio formatDolby Digital
Original releaseSeptember 17, 2009 (2009-09-17) –
June 2, 2015 (2015-06-02)

Harmon based Community on his experiences attending Glendale Community College. Each episode was written in accordance with Harmon's "story circle" template, a method designed to create effective and structured storytelling. Harmon was the showrunner for the first three seasons but was fired before the fourth and replaced by David Guarascio and Moses Port. After weaker reviews, Harmon was rehired for the fifth season, after which NBC canceled the series. Yahoo! Screen revived the show for Community's sixth and final season.

Despite struggling in the ratings, Community developed a cult following and received acclaim for its acting, direction, writing and meta-humor. It won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series in 2012, among other accolades. In September 2022, after several years of speculation and development, a feature-length Community film was announced for NBC's streaming service Peacock.[2]

Premise

Jeff Winger is disbarred and suspended from his law firm when it is discovered that he lied about having a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. To earn a legitimate degree, he enrolls at Greendale Community College in Colorado. He quickly becomes attracted to his classmate, social activist Britta Perry, and pretends to run a study group in order to spend time with her. Britta invites classmate Abed Nadir (who struggles with social interactions and is obsessed with pop culture), who in turn brings other classmates along: religious single mother Shirley Bennett; naive over-achiever Annie Edison; former high school football star Troy Barnes; and bigoted, politically incorrect elderly millionaire Pierce Hawthorne. Despite their differences, the group's members soon become close friends. They are often roped into helping the college's flamboyant dean, Craig Pelton, in his schemes to make the school seem more respectable, as well as having to deal with the antics of their mentally unstable teacher (and eventual classmate) Ben Chang.

Season 1 follows Jeff's creation of the study group and its subsequent misadventures. Season 2 sees Chang forced to enroll as a student and attempting to join the study group despite secretly planning revenge against it, while Pelton is forced to fight for Greendale's sense of pride against the dean of rival school City College, eventually culminating in a desperate paintball battle. Season 3 focuses on Chang's villainous plot to take over the school, as well as Troy struggling with whether or not to attend the cultlike air conditioning repair school. Season 4 shows the study group in its senior year, with all the characters (especially Abed) struggling with what may be their final moments together, and Chang recovering from amnesia. Season 5 sees Pierce's death and Troy leaving in the middle of the season, while the other characters return to Greendale after graduation to save the school, leading Jeff to take a job there as a teacher. Season 6 ends the series with the characters reflecting on the last six years while new staff member Frankie Dart arrives at the dysfunctional school to make it more respectable, forcing the group to question how much Greendale can be cleaned up while still remaining Greendale.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of Community characters

The show features an ensemble cast of characters, focusing on the members of a study group and a recurring group of faculty of Greendale Community College, including the dean.

  • Joel McHale as Jeff Winger, a former lawyer who enrolls at Greendale after being suspended by the state bar for falsely claiming to have a bachelor's degree. Jeff is a sarcastic, outspoken, overconfident, narcissist lothario who constantly manipulates people to get what he wants, which is often to not do any work. He first created the study group to date Britta. Britta needed help studying and Jeff pretended to be a board-certified Spanish tutor. But as he becomes closer to his new study group, some of his habits and views change. Most of the group (except Britta) tends to idolize Jeff for his charisma, and often seeks advice from him. Although he initially dislikes his role as the group's straight man and tries to appear indifferent to their concerns before grudgingly helping them, Jeff is more willing to make personal sacrifices for his friends over time and selectively reveals that he can be more patient and less critical than what other "alpha males" typically offer.
  • Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry, an anarchist, atheist, and activist who traveled around the world after dropping out of high school. Britta tries to seem proactive, intelligent, and mature, but often comes off as pretentious and hypocritical, especially when she decides to become a psychologist starting in season 3. This leads the other group members to see her as a bad influence on the group, as evidenced by her taste in mentally damaged men, and her tendency to make things go wrong. Despite not being as worldly or well-informed an activist as she thinks, Britta has a genuine and powerful desire to help others, and significant enthusiasm and energy for what she puts effort into (whether appropriate or misplaced).
  • Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir, a film student of Palestinian and Polish descent, with an encyclopedic knowledge of TV shows and movies. Abed struggles to interact with others via conventional means due to his implied autism, so he often chooses to interpret the group's everyday activities by comparing them to film and TV clichés. Despite being out-of-touch with reality at times, Abed is a keen observer of human behavior and often the wisest member of the group. These eccentricities allow him to pick up on flaws the other characters have and tend to bluntly point them out, eventually resulting in the characters learning from his insights. Harmon based the character on Abed Gheith, whom he met through Channel 101.[3]
  • Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett (seasons 1–5; guest season 6), a divorced mother and vocal Christian going to school to start a brownie business. Shirley is a kind-hearted person with strong morals, but can be overbearing and often resorts to using guilt in her interactions with her friends. Though soft-spoken, Shirley has a quick temper, a characteristic that manifests when she is advocating for herself or her friends. It is often implied that Shirley's Christian beliefs, which she tends to impose on most non-Christians around her, are a means of coping with her anger issues and to repress the stress she deals with in raising her family while also dealing with school.
  • Alison Brie as Annie Edison, the youngest of the group, a compulsive overachiever, relentlessly organized and comparatively innocent. Annie was extremely unpopular in high school and formerly addicted to Adderall, which has caused her to be very anxious and desperate to prove herself in a variety of extra-curricular groups despite already being considered naturally intelligent and attractive by others. Though normally kind-hearted, she can quickly turn obsessive or lose her temper when she fails to achieve or is denied something she strongly cares about. However, her friendship with Jeff, as well as her living situation with Troy and Abed, slowly allow her to become more laid-back and genial.
  • Donald Glover as Troy Barnes (seasons 1–5), a former high school star quarterback who lost his scholarship to a top-tier university when he separated both shoulders doing a keg flip, which he actually did on purpose in order to escape the pressures of his stardom and popularity. Troy starts the series trying to appear cool and acting like a bully and a stereotypical football player, but he eventually feels comfortable in embracing his nerdy and carefree side, particularly in him becoming best friends with Abed. Troy generally struggles with the idea of becoming older, often looking to Jeff and Pierce for guidance, despite already showing signs of being capable of leadership and connecting the group together.
  • Ken Jeong as Ben Chang, an unstable Spanish teacher at Greendale. Chang often takes extreme action against his students, usually yelling at them for the slightest infraction or fervently using his superior status to taunt them. He has alternately been a friend and foe of the study group, his ultimate desire being to fit in with them, though his behavior makes them desperate to not include him. After Annie gets him fired at the end of season 1, Chang alternates between a variety of roles, becoming a student in season 2, a security guard in season 3, as Kevin who is suffering from "Changnesia" (a fake disease similar to amnesia) during season 4, a math teacher under work release in season 5, and a member of the Save Greendale Committee in season 6.
  • Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne (seasons 1–4; guest season 5), a millionaire and CEO of the Hawthorne Wipes moist towelette company who enrolled at Greendale a decade prior to the start of the series out of boredom and a passive attempt at self-discovery. More than anyone else within the study group, Pierce is often at odds with the rest of the group because of his arrogance, lack of empathy, and casual ignorance of politically correct behavior, all of which largely stem from his old age and his emotionally abusive father. This includes believing Britta is a closeted lesbian, mispronouncing Abed's name, and lusting over Shirley. He also tends to envy the other group members, particularly Jeff's relative youthful attractiveness and Abed's close friendship with Troy. Despite his often unsociable and selfish nature, Pierce desperately wants to fit in with the group and occasionally offers great insight and advice, showing that he does care for each of the group members.
  • Jim Rash as Craig Pelton (seasons 3–6; recurring seasons 1–2), the dean of Greendale, who desperately wants his school to be more like a real university and goes to extreme lengths to try to make it fun and politically correct, while frequently explaining his many unresolved business decisions. A man of unclear sexual orientation, he frequently attempts to flirt with Jeff and is an increasingly avid cross-dresser. In season 6, he identifies himself as gay, though he views it as an insufficient label. The study group is by far the Dean's favorite group of students, and he is constantly making up excuses to come talk to them, often by walking into their study room unannounced while wearing a costume in order to tell them about events going on in the school.

Episodes

Main article: List of Community episodes
Community seasons
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
125September 17, 2009 (2009-09-17)May 20, 2010 (2010-05-20)NBC
224September 23, 2010 (2010-09-23)May 12, 2011 (2011-05-12)
322September 22, 2011 (2011-09-22)May 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)
413February 7, 2013 (2013-02-07)May 9, 2013 (2013-05-09)
513January 2, 2014 (2014-01-02)April 17, 2014 (2014-04-17)
613March 17, 2015 (2015-03-17)June 2, 2015 (2015-06-02)Yahoo! Screen

Most episodes feature titles designed to sound like the names of college courses such as "Introduction to Film", "Anthropology 101" and "Cooperative Calligraphy".[4]

Season 1 premiered on September 17, 2009, in the 9:30 pm ET Thursday time slot.[5] After three episodes, the show was moved to 8:00 pm ET. In October 2009, it was announced that the show had been picked up for a full 22-episode season.[6]

In January 2010, NBC ordered an additional three episodes for the first season, extending it to 25.[7] On March 5, 2010, Community was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 23, 2010.[8] On March 17, 2011, NBC renewed Community for a third season.[9] On May 10, 2012, Community was renewed for a fourth season consisting of 13 episodes.[10] On May 10, 2013, the show was renewed for a fifth season.[11] On June 30, 2014, it was announced that the show would return for a sixth season of 13 episodes on Yahoo! Screen.[12]

Webisodes

In addition to the regular episodes, NBC produced a series of webisodes. Some focus on the daily life of Dean Pelton and others include a Spanish project, study breaks, and Abed copying his friends' lives and turning them into student films. These webisodes are featured on the front page of the Greendale Community College website on the AV Department page.[13]

On March 2, 2012, it was announced that three animated webisodes would air exclusively on Hulu in lead up to the return of the series on March 15, 2012. Titled Abed's Master Key, the shorts were written by Dave Seger and Tom Kauffman of Channel 101 and animated by Animax Entertainment. In the webisodes, Abed becomes Dean Pelton's assistant and is given a master key to Greendale.[14]

Production

Casting

 
Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie and Joel McHale at San Diego Comic-Con 2012

Dan Harmon emphasized the importance of the cast to making the premise of the comedy work. "Casting was 95 percent of putting the show together," he said in an interview.[15] He had worked with several of the cast members previously. Actor Chevy Chase had long been a favorite of Harmon. Though initially not partial to sitcoms, Chase was persuaded by the quality of the show's writing to take the job.[15] Harmon saw similarities between Chase and the character he plays on the show. Though Chase has often been ridiculed for his career choices, Harmon believed this role could be redeeming: "What makes Chevy and Pierce heroic is this refusal to stop."[16] Harmon had to warn Chase against playing a "wise-ass" the way he often does in his roles, since the character of Pierce is a rather pathetic figure who is normally the butt of the joke himself.[16]

McHale, known from the E! comedy talk show The Soup, was also impressed by Harmon's writing. He commented, "Dan's script was so head and shoulders above everything else that I was reading."[17] McHale appealed to Harmon because of his likability, which allowed the character to possess certain unsympathetic traits without turning the viewer against him.[16] To play Annie, Harmon wanted someone resembling Tracy Flick, Reese Witherspoon's character in the 1999 movie Election. Originally the producers were looking for a Latina or Asian Tracy Flick, but they cast Alison Brie, known for her role as Trudy Campbell on Mad Men.[16]

 
Series creator Dan Harmon

Development

Harmon based the premise of Community on his own experiences. In an attempt to save his relationship with his then-girlfriend, he enrolled in Glendale Community College northeast of Los Angeles, where they would take Spanish together.[15] Harmon got involved in a study group and, somewhat against his own instincts, became close friends with the members, with whom he had very little in common. "I was in this group with these knuckleheads and I started really liking them," he explained, "even though they had nothing to do with the film industry and I had nothing to gain from them and nothing to offer them."[16] With this background, Harmon wrote the show with a main character largely based on himself. He had, like Jeff, been arrogant and emotionally distant to the extreme before he realized the value of understanding other people.[16]

About the creative process behind the writing, Harmon said that he had to write the show as if it were a movie, not a sitcom. Essentially, the process was no different from the earlier works he had done, except for the length and the target demographic.[16]

Writing

Each episode of Community is written in accordance with Dan Harmon's template of "story circles" that he developed while at Channel 101.[18] Harmon rewrote every episode (except while not working on the show during its fourth season), which helped lend the show his particular voice.[19] Members of the Community writing staff have included Liz Cackowski, Dino Stamatopoulos, Chris McKenna, Megan Ganz, Andy Bobrow, Alex Rubens, Tim Saccardo and Matt Warburton. Cast member Jim Rash, who won an Academy Award in 2011 for co-writing the film The Descendants, also wrote a season four episode.

The show is known for its frequent use of thematic episodes every season, which use clichés and television tropes as single-episode concepts that play with suspension of disbelief while maintaining plot continuity.[20][21] One notable thematic episode is Season 3's "Remedial Chaos Theory", in which the cast explore seven different parallel realities of the same night, with one key variation being a roll of a single six-sided die in a game of Yahtzee that Jeff uses to dismiss a member of the group to go get a pizza (the seventh variant is that the die was not rolled at all).[22] Frequent episode themes are school-year holidays (Halloween and Christmas being the most frequent), paintball,[23] and various forms of animation.[24][25][26]

Filming

Filming the show involved a lot of improvisation, particularly from Chase. Of Chase, Harmon said that he "tends to come up with lines that you can actually end scenes with sometimes".[27] He has also called McHale and Glover adept improvisers.[17] Apart from a few exterior scenes shot at Los Angeles City College, the show was filmed at the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood, California, during seasons one through five. For season six, the series moved to the CBS Studio Center, and featured exterior scenes from Los Angeles City College for the first time since season two.[28] The series used the single-camera technique, where each shot is filmed individually, using the same camera.[29]

Third season

See also: Community (season 3)

The series was renewed for a third season on March 17, 2011.[30] Filming for the season began on July 25, 2011.[31] Jim Rash, who portrays Dean Pelton, was promoted to a series regular after having a recurring role throughout the first two seasons.[32] Michael K. Williams was cast as the study group's new biology professor, who is described as a deeply intense character.[33] John Goodman appears as a recurring character throughout the season as Vice Dean Laybourne, the head of Greendale's air conditioning repair school, and is a foe for Dean Pelton.[34]

Community premiered its third season on September 22, 2011. On November 14, 2011, NBC announced that they were removing Community from their mid-season schedule, replacing it with the returning series 30 Rock.[35] Fans of the series began a campaign to get the show back on the air using Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, making hashtags such as #SaveCommunity, #SixSeasonsAndAMovie, and #OccupyNBC trending topics.[36] NBC responded to the backlash by announcing that the network was still planning to film and air the remainder of the 22 planned episodes after the undetermined hiatus, and that the fate of the series would be determined after the planned episodes air.[35]

On December 7, 2011, CollegeHumor released a video titled "Save Greendale (with the cast of Community)" using the cast of Community in-character to promote the series and the school in a PSA-styled video.[37] On December 22, 2011, fans of the series created a flash mob outside of NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York City to Occupy NBC. The flash mob dressed in Christmas gear, wearing "darkest timeline" goatees, and singing "O' Christmas Troy" from the first season's episode "Comparative Religion" and chanting "Go Greendale, go Greendale, go".[38] On January 6, 2012, NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt announced that Community was not canceled, though he did not mention a return date.[39]

On February 21, 2012, creator Dan Harmon announced via Twitter that the third season would resume on March 15, 2012, in its regular timeslot of Thursdays at 8:00 pm.[40]

Fourth season

See also: Community (season 4)
 
 
Season 4 showrunners David Guarascio (left) and Moses Port (right) at a San Diego Comic-Con panel for Community in July 2012.

Series creator and executive producer Dan Harmon was replaced as showrunner for the series in the fourth season, as writers David Guarascio and Moses Port (co-creators of the short-lived Aliens in America) took over as showrunners and executive producers. Sony Pictures Television, which produces the series with Universal Television, initially said that Harmon would serve as a consulting producer, but Harmon asserted that he was not informed of the deal and would not return in a position without any executive prerogatives.[41] The end of the third season also marked several other departures including executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, writer/producer Chris McKenna and actor/writer Dino Stamatopoulos. Frequent episode directors and executive producers Anthony and Joe Russo also left the show in order to direct Captain America: The Winter Soldier.[42][43]

In early October 2012, NBC delayed the premiere of the fourth season, which had been scheduled for October 19, 2012, without announcing a new date.[44] On October 30, 2012, NBC announced that the fourth season would premiere on February 7, 2013, returning to its original time slot of Thursdays at 8:00 pm.[45]

On November 21, 2012, after saying the “N” word on set, it was announced that Chevy Chase left the show by mutual agreement between the actor and network. As a result of timing and the agreement made, Chase's character Pierce is absent for two episodes—he did not appear in the tenth episode (produced as ninth), "Intro to Knots", and the twelfth episode, "Heroic Origins".[46][47] He also appeared in a voice-only role in the episode "Intro to Felt Surrogacy", which was the final episode produced for the season, and as part of his agreement to leave the show, Chase was required to record all audio for the scenes where his character, alongside the other characters, appeared as a puppet.[48] The season finale, which was filmed out-of-sequence, as it was the eleventh episode produced, marked Chase's final on-screen appearance as a regular cast member.[49] He appeared in a cameo in the season 5 premiere.[50]

Fifth season

See also: Community (season 5)
 
Chris McKenna on a Community panel at WonderCon 2012

On May 10, 2013, the series was renewed for a fifth season.[11] On June 1, 2013, Harmon announced he would return as showrunner for season five, replacing season four showrunners Moses Port and David Guarascio, with former writer Chris McKenna returning as executive producer.[51] On June 10, Sony Television confirmed the return of Harmon and McKenna for the fifth season.[52] Dino Stamatopoulos, Rob Schrab and the Russo brothers also returned.

Glover decided to not return as a full-time cast member for the fifth season, appearing only in the first five of the 13 episodes.[53] To make up for his absence and Chase's, Jonathan Banks was cast in the fifth season in August 2013 and appeared in 11 of the season's 13 episodes, portraying Buzz Hickey, a criminology professor.[54] Additionally, John Oliver, who played Professor Duncan in the first two seasons, reprised his role in season 5 for multiple episodes.[55]

On May 9, 2014, NBC announced that it had canceled Community.[56] For several years before its cancellation, fans adopted the slogan "six seasons and a movie", a line from the episode "Paradigms of Human Memory" regarding Abed's hopeful legacy of short-lived NBC series The Cape.[57][58][59] Bids to continue the series were turned down by popular streaming providers like Netflix[60] and Hulu.[61]

Sixth season

See also: Community (season 6)

On June 30, 2014, the day the cast's contracts were due to expire, Yahoo! announced it had ordered a 13-episode sixth season to stream on Yahoo! Screen, including the main cast along with executive producers Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna, Russ Krasnoff, and Gary Foster. Harmon said, "I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo ... I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online."[12] However, Yvette Nicole Brown dropped out to care for her ailing father, although she made guest appearances in "Ladders" and "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television".[62] Paget Brewster was cast as consultant Francesca "Frankie" Dart and Keith David was cast as inventor Elroy Patashnik.[63] Filming began for season six on November 17, 2014, and on December 8, 2014, the series celebrated the milestone of 100 episodes.[64] Filming ended on March 27, 2015.[65]

In a June 3, 2015, interview with TV Insider, Dan Harmon explained why season six would likely be the last of the series:

We've exploded into these successful shrapnel. Dr. Ken is now Dr. Ken. Alison has probably got her eye on movies. Gillian is working on a Netflix show. If there was some magical way of guaranteeing that everyone could come back all at once, let's do it. But it would be a lot easier to put together a movie project and get them all on board than to say, "Let's give it one more season!"[66]

Despite the show's "six seasons and a movie" mantra, Yahoo never formally marketed season six as its final season. On July 30, 2015, Joel McHale stated that Yahoo! "wanted to [make more seasons of Community], but all of [the actors'] contracts were up after six years."[67] McHale later clarified his statement via Twitter, saying "Community is not canceled."[68] Yahoo released a statement: "We've seen tremendous value in our partnership with Sony and are continuing to discuss future opportunities for Community."[69] Harmon said he "could have said yes immediately" to season seven, but "given the actors' velocity and trajectory" decided in favor of "getting [the cast] back together for an awesome movie."[70] On January 4, 2016, Yahoo announced it had shut down its Yahoo Screen service, after a $42 million write-down, with its original programming being moved to Yahoo TV for continued public viewing.[71]

Film

In a June 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Zack Van Amburg of Sony Pictures Television confirmed that a Community film was in the early stages of development. Asked if Sony had plans beyond the sixth season, Amburg said:

There's no way we're not making the movie now! I think once we make the movie, let's look up and decide how much more Community the world wants. I'd be lying if I told you that we have not had some very early and preliminary conversations that are very exciting about what a potential movie could be and who might direct it.[72]

One year later, after the sixth season wrapped, Harmon said he was not ready to produce a movie at the end of the season:

I told Yahoo, "I can't think about writing a movie until I miss Community", ... They wanted to turn around and do a movie immediately, and Yahoo can get it done. They're like the NSA.[73]

In July 2016, during an interview with Larry King Now, Harmon said that a Community movie "will happen", while expressing uncertainty on how to begin its production.[74] In July 2017, in an interview with Time, he said of a Community movie, "I recently had a conversation with a director that's the kind of guy whose weight in the industry could make that happen. For the first time in a long time, I'm actually putting thought into that again."[75] In November 2017, Harmon told The Wrap that both he and Justin Lin were working to make the movie happen.[76]

In January 2018, Pudi said the cast was still excited about the prospect of a film: "We have a little text chain, so we're always like, 'We're ready! We're ready!'"[77] On March 23, 2018, McHale said he was still hopeful about the movie, while noting that he felt bringing Glover back would be vital the film's success and was unsure whether this was feasible. He elaborated: "It would be great to do. I'd do it in a New York minute."[78]

When asked in an interview in June 2019 about doing a Community movie, Alison Brie said, "Yeah, I think I would." She later added, "I mean, look, it's like, are we going to do the movie? I feel like if the Community movie ever gets made, it should just be made for Netflix, and it would be fun to do, but, I think it would be best if we could get everyone to do it, so I feel like that might be difficult."[79] In a February 2020 Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread, Brie said she "actually got an interesting call about it this week" when questioned about a Community movie and said to "stay tuned".[80]

As the show debuted on Netflix in April 2020, public exposure and interest picked up significantly. That same month during an interview with Collider, Joe Russo was asked if he and his brother Anthony would come back to do the movie. He stated, "We'd certainly be willing to do it. We love our Community family. That cast, we're all still very close to all of them. It'd be schedule-depending for us. But I believe there will be a Community movie, especially now that it's doing well on streaming. Someone like Netflix could step up and make the movie."[81]

In May 2020, the original cast (excluding Chase) and Harmon announced that they would reunite via a livestream video for a benefit to raise money for the COVID-19 pandemic with a table read of "Cooperative Polygraphy". Pedro Pascal filled in for Walton Goggins, who was unavailable.[82] On May 13, a few days before the table read, Gillian Jacobs talked about her belief that the entire cast would want to return for a movie.[83] In a Q&A session immediately following the May 18 livestream video table read, the cast, including Glover, expressed interest in a movie.[84][85]

Harmon confirmed in 2021 he had begun work on the script, and that any logistical issues with creating a Community movie were mostly solved. He described the challenging part of the movie was more "philosophical", namely whether the movie would be approachable to a viewer unfamiliar with the television show.[86] Harmon said in August 2022 that a movie was "definitely going to happen" and could be expected in "between one and eight years". He said that the movie had an outline and that: "There's a product put together and pitched out in the world".[87]

The Peacock streaming service announced that they had ordered the film in September 2022. Harmon and Andrew Guest will write the film while McHale, Pudi, Brie, Jacobs, Rash and Jeong are set to return. Of the main cast, Glover, Brown and Chase are not confirmed.[2] However, Harmon said in November that Glover was "down to clown".[88] Harmon also said that there had been a bidding war among distributors for the rights to the film, but Peacock outbid other competitors for the film.[89] As of November 2022, the movie's script is being written.[88]

Reception

Critical reception

Season Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
1 90% (41 reviews)[90] 69 (23 reviews)[91]
2 100% (18 reviews)[92] 86 (4 reviews)[93]
3 91% (22 reviews)[94] 82 (4 reviews)[95]
4 65% (40 reviews)[96] 69 (18 reviews)[97]
5 93% (42 reviews)[98] 80 (15 reviews)[99]
6 89% (36 reviews)[100] 78 (12 reviews)[101]

First season

The show's first season received mostly positive reviews, scoring 69 out of 100 based on 23 critics on Metacritic.[91] Season 1 scored 90% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's critical consensus reading: "Snarky and fast-paced with a surprisingly tender undercurrent and an engaging cast, Community is one of the best new comedies of the season".[90] David Bushman (Curator, Television) of the Paley Center for Media called Community the best new show of the fall season.[102] Jonah Krakow of IGN gave the first season an 8.5 saying that "Community eventually ramped up and delivered some amazing stories in the second half of the season."[103]

Second season

The second season received high critical acclaim, scoring 86 out of 100 based on 4 critics on Metacritic.[93] Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 100%, with a critical consensus that reads: "Community unfurls into a marvel of meta-madness in its sophomore season, artfully deconstructing sitcom tropes while repeatedly knocking its own emotional beats out of the park".[92] Emily Nussbaum of New York Magazine and Heather Havrilesky of Salon.com rated Community as the best show of 2010.[104][105] In The A.V. Club's list of the 25 best television series of 2010, Community ranked second, stating that the best episodes were "Modern Warfare", "Cooperative Calligraphy", and "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas".[106] IGN named Community the best comedy series in both 2010 and 2011.[107][108]

Third season

 
Danny Pudi has received critical acclaim for his performance.

Acclaim for the show continued in the third season, scoring 82 out of 100 based on 4 critics on Metacritic.[95] It also topped the Metacritic User Poll in the category 'Best Television Show of 2011', receiving 3,478 points.[109] Rotten Tomatoes gave season 3 a 91% with a critical consensus that reads: "The Greendale study group take some of their boldest swings – though not all connect – in this freewheeling third season that nevertheless continues Community's streak as the gold standard for fiendishly clever television".[94] Community placed on several critics top television lists; including ranked second by Paste,[110] fifth by both HitFix[111] and The Huffington Post,[112] first by Hulu[113] and third on TV.com's Top 100 Everything of 2011.[114]

In 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed the show at #15 in the "25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years," with high praise: "The series' affinity for ambitious, high-concept story lines (e.g. few shows are willing to turn over an entire episode to stop-motion animation), meta humor, and constant pop culture allusions has helped it earn the kind of fervent fan following some of its higher-rated comedic competitors must envy."[115] A user poll on Splitsider named "Remedial Chaos Theory" as the best sitcom episode of all time, beating out The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail".[116]

Fourth season

Reviews for the fourth season were generally positive, but less enthusiastic than the reception of the first three seasons. It scored 69 out of 100 based on 18 critics on Metacritic.[97] The season 4 rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 65%, and the critical consensus reads: "Despite some behind-the-scenes drama, the fourth season of Community manages to retain the playful energy, potent humor, and kooky stories the show is famous for".[96] Verne Gay of Newsday stated the show was "still defiantly Community, still good and still uninterested in adding new viewers."[117] On the other hand, Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall wrote, "It feels like [Moses] Port, [David] Guarascio and the other writers decided to reverse-engineer the [Dan] Harmon version of Community, but couldn't quite manage without the missing ingredient of Harmon himself."[118] Mike Hale of The New York Times has stated that the series "has been dumbed down, its humor broadened past recognition, and the two episodes provided for review...have fewer laughs between them than a single good scene from the old Community."[119]

Fifth season

The fifth season received critical acclaim, scoring an 80 out of 100 based on 15 reviews on Metacritic.[99] Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 93%, with the critical consensus reading: "With Dan Harmon back as its show runner, Community returns with a familiar new energy and more fun, exciting adventures for the Greendale gang".[98] Many critics cited the return of series creator Dan Harmon as a strength. Verne Gay from Newsday said of the season that it was "about as good a Community restart as anyone could have possibly hoped for."[120]

Sixth season

The sixth season continued to receive positive reviews, scoring a 78 out of 100 based on 12 reviews on Metacritic,[101] and scoring an 89% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus being, "Despite cast and broadcast changes, Community manages to remain at the top of its quirky class."[100] Amy Amatangelo of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Everything fans loved about Community remains [...] the show has seamlessly transferred to an online venue."[121] The Los Angeles Times' Robert Lloyd considered "something special" about the season, commenting that it "lives in consciousness of its own construction in a kind of existential but also dramatically meaningful way."[122] The New York Times's Mike Hale felt Harmon responsible "for turning countercultural whimsicality into affecting, fast-paced comedy" in the season.[123] Time's James Poniewozik felt it the same show in humor and quality, though he noted an absent "sense of mission regarding the characters. [...] Maybe it's enough for Community, free of the ratings pressures of NBC, to live its second life free to be weird and playful and experimental."[124]

Post-finale

Since its final episode, Community has appeared on a number of lists determining the greatest television shows of all-time. In TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time, critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Community 54th in their combined top 100 list, placing them in the section titled "Groundbreakers and Workhorses."[125] In 2017, IGN placed it 51st in its top 100 ranking of TV shows, with writer Jonathon Dornbush describing it "as a meta love letter to the films and shows that inspired it and its creator, Dan Harmon."[126]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Community

In 2009, the series received a nomination for Favorite New TV Comedy at the 36th People's Choice Awards.[127]

In 2010, at the 41st NAACP Image Awards, Justin Lin received a nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for "Introduction to Statistics".[128] At the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, the series received a nomination for Breakout Show and Ken Jeong was nominated for Breakout Star Male.[129] For Entertainment Weekly's 3rd Ewwy Awards, it was nominated for Best Comedy Series,[130] Joel McHale was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy[131] and Danny Pudi was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.[132]

In 2011, Betty White received a nomination for Favorite TV Guest Star at the 37th People's Choice Awards.[133] Yvette Nicole Brown won the 2011 Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.[134] The series received a nomination for Best Directing for a Comedy Series at The Comedy Awards.[135] For the 1st Critics' Choice Television Awards, it was nominated for Best Comedy Series, while Joel McHale and Danny Pudi were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in Comedy Series, respectively.[136] The episode "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" won a 2011 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Animation.[137] At the 42nd NAACP Image Awards, Justin Lin was nominated for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for the episode "Modern Warfare".[138] At the 27th TCA Awards, Community was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy and Danny Pudi was nominated for Individual Achievement in Comedy.[139] The series received four nominations for the 2011 Satellite Awards, for Best Comedy or Musical Series, Joel McHale for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series, and Donald Glover for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie; while it won Best Television Release for the season two DVD set.[140]

In 2012, Community was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the episode "Remedial Chaos Theory", written by Chris McKenna.[141] Also that year, the show won the awards for Favorite Comedy and Favorite Ensemble in the 2012 TV Guide Magazine Fan Favorites Awards.[142] "Remedial Chaos Theory" was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2012 for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.[143] Community also won the Hulu "Best in Show" award for 2012, beating 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, New Girl and Modern Family in the first four rounds, and The Walking Dead in the final round by 11,000 votes.[144] It won Hulu's "Best in Show" award again in 2013, beating out Game of Thrones in the final round with 60% of the votes.[145][146]

At the 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards, Community received the most nominations and won Best Comedy Series.[147] Joel McHale was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jim Rash and Danny Pudi were nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs were nominated Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.[148] Community was also nominated for TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy at the 2012 TCA Awards.[149]

Semiotics and Community

While sitcoms are often underrepresented in the academic study of television,[150] Community is an exception. More specifically, television critics and scholars often reference Community when discussing semiotics, the study of signs, in television and film. Television itself does not convey meaning, but rather viewers construct meaning based on recognizable signs and references,[151][page needed] so a complex show like Community is rich with potential semiotic analysis.

Some critics have even claimed that the show itself is about semiotics. Mordicai Knode of Tor.com suggests the show is "about the tropes of every single genre, it is about the cinematic language and the shared culture we all bring piecemeal to the table when we sit down as audiences."[152]

Dan Harmon fills each episode with signs and references in order for the audience to deconstruct and construct their own meaning, even going so far as to break the fourth wall to give viewers a wink and a nod to the show's complexity. Fans of Community require a "certain level of rhetorical and interpretive skills"[153][page needed] to pick up on these semiotic layers of the series:

"The most important knowledge a viewer brings to the viewing of Community is the subconscious recognition of indicators for other formal systems (meaning other genres or specific texts) with help from subconscious hypotheses and charts that are built on previous experiences with similar works."[151][page needed]

Ratings

Premiering in the 9:30 pm ET spot on September 17, 2009, the pilot episode had a viewership of 7.680 million. In the 18–49 audience, it had a rating of 3.7. As such, it held 93% of this audience from The Office, which had been in the previous time slot. The show was called the "bright spot for the night" for NBC, seeing how The Office was down 18% from the previous year's premiere, while Parks and Recreation, in the preceding time slot, was down 30%.[154] However, the show, like many other NBC comedies at the time (including The Office, Parks and Recreation, and 30 Rock), would later struggle in the ratings despite critical acclaim,[155] though the show did tend to improve after factoring in DVR ratings.[156] Some commentators noted that the show's uniqueness and ambition prevented it from achieving the broad appeal of other sitcoms.[155][157]

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Community:
     Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.

Ratings for Community
Season Timeslot (ET) Episodes Premiere Finale TV season Rank Viewers
(in millions)
Date Premiere viewers
(in millions) 		18–49
rating 		Date Finale viewers
(in millions) 		18–49
rating
1 Thursday 9:30 pm
(Until October 1, 2009)
Thursday 8:00 pm
(Since October 8, 2009) 		25 September 17, 2009 7.89[158] 3.8[158] May 20, 2010 4.41[159] 2.0[159] 2009–10 #97 of 140[160] 5.00[160]
2 Thursday 8:00 pm 24 September 23, 2010 5.01[161] 2.2[161] May 12, 2011 3.32[162] 1.5[162] 2010–11 #138 of 268[163] 4.44[163]
3 22 September 22, 2011 3.93[164] 1.7[164] May 17, 2012 2.48[165] 1.3[165] 2011–12 #144 of 195[166] 4.03[166]
4 13 February 7, 2013 3.88[167] 1.9[167] May 9, 2013 3.08[168] 1.3[168] 2012–13 #133 of 187[169] 3.58[169]
5 13 January 2, 2014 3.49[170] 1.3[170] April 17, 2014 2.87[171] 1.0[171] 2013–14 #96 of 149[172] 3.00[172]

Syndication

On March 14, 2012, Comedy Central announced that it had purchased the rights to Community for syndication that began airing in September 2013 at the same time as weeknight syndication on local stations.[173] On November 28, 2020, the show made its debut on IFC.[174]

Community premiered in syndication in Canada on The Comedy Network on September 4, 2012.[175] In January 2014, the show moved to Canadian sister channel MuchMusic.[176] The series made its Canadian over-the-air broadcast debut in 2018, when the series moved to CHCH.[177]

In the United Kingdom, Community aired on subscription cable network Universal TV from 2011 to 2016, with season one also airing on MTV's free-to-air Viva channel and Channel 4 Television Corporation's 4Music.[178]

In India, Community premiered on Star World in 2010.[179] It began airing on Comedy Central from 2016.[180]

Home media

DVD

The first season was released in region 1 on September 21, 2010, in a four-disc set. The set includes all 25 episodes plus bonus features, including commentary on every episode by cast and crew members; extended versions of the "Pilot" and "Communication Studies" episodes; outtakes; "Season One Cast Evaluations" featurette; "Season One Highlight Reel" featurette; "Creative Compromises" featurette; "Advanced Criminal Law" alternative scenes; and three mini episodes.[181]

The second season was released in region 1 on September 6, 2011. It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members; outtakes; animatics for "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" and making-of featurettes covering that episode as well as "A Fistful of Paintballs" and "For a Few Paintballs More".[182]

The third season was released in region 1 on August 14, 2012. It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members; gag reel; deleted scenes; "This is War: Pillows vs. Blankets mockumentary" featurette; and "A Glee-ful Community Christmas" featurette.[183]

The fourth season was released in region 1 on August 6, 2013. It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members; gag reel; deleted scenes; "Inspector Spacetime: Inspection" featurette, and Adventures in Advanced Puppetry featurette.[184]

The fifth season was released in region 1 on August 5, 2014. It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members; gag reel; and two featurettes, "Re-Animating the '80s" and "Advanced Television Production: 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep".[185]

The sixth season was released on DVD in region 1 on March 8, 2016. Special features include deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the finale, trivia with the cast and crew, and a gag reel.[186]

The complete series was released on DVD in region 1 on November 15, 2016. Special features include all the features from the first six seasons.[187]

Blu-ray

On June 6, 2018, it was announced that Community: The Complete Series would be released by Mill Creek Entertainment on high-definition Blu-ray on October 23, 2018.[188]

Digital

In the United States, the complete series is available on Hulu and Netflix. The first three seasons are available on Netflix throughout Latin America with Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese subtitles.[189] All six seasons are available via the iTunes Store. The series was available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video UK until February 1, 2015, when seasons one through five also became available on Netflix in the UK and Ireland until 2017.[190] In Australia, the entire series is available on Stan.[191] In 2018, all six seasons were made available on All 4, the streaming service of Channel 4, in the United Kingdom.[192]

Streaming

The series has been available to stream through Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., Amazon Prime Video and Netflix in Canada, Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom, Netflix and TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand, Netflix in Ireland, Australia and Latin America and All 4 in the United Kingdom.

On April 1, 2020, the series became available to stream on Netflix worldwide.[193] Since Community's addition to Netflix, the show began to reach a wider audience and entered into Netflix's top 10 most popular shows in April 2020.[194] Season 6 is still available to view on Yahoo!'s website and app, including exclusive "Communitary" commentary from cast, writers, and producers.

On June 26, 2020, Netflix and Hulu removed the season 2 episode "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" from their platforms due to controversial scenes with Chang playing a dark elf by wearing black make-up and a white wig, which was perceived as blackface. Several other live-action comedies had episodes featuring blackface removed as well.[195] At the time, Harmon did not comment on the episode's removal.[196] In a 2021 interview with The New York Times, Harmon remarked that "justifiably they're stripping it from the streaming archives because it's got a joke about blackface", but added that it "is probably the best episode of Community".[197]

Soundtrack

Community (Music from the Original Television Series)
Soundtrack album by
various artists
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2010 (2010-09-21)
GenreSoundtrack
Length34:45
LabelMadison Gate

A soundtrack for the first season, titled Community (Music from the Original Television Series), was released on September 21, 2010[198] by Madison Gate Records.[199] The track list includes the main title theme, "At Least It Was Here" by The 88; original songs and incidental music composed for the show (by series composer Ludwig Göransson); and several songs were performed by the characters (a mix of original compositions and covers).

Track listing

Community (Music from the Original Television Series)
No.TitleArtistLength
1."At Least It Was Here (Community Main Title)" (Main Title Version)The 880:35
2."101 Rap"Donald Glover and Danny Pudi0:35
3."Getting Rid of Britta"Chevy Chase, Eric Olsen, and Tom Wolfe2:15
4."Pierce You Are a B"Eric Olsen, Tom Wolfe, and Jacques Slade2:21
5."Pierce Raps"Jacques Slade0:37
6."Night Cap"Jacques Slade2:10
7."The Way It Is"Chevy Chase1:00
8."Community Medley"Ludwig Göransson4:37
9."Somewhere Out There"Donald Glover and Danny Pudi2:10
10."I Never Die"Jacques Slade1:51
11."Sensitive Night"Yvette Nicole Brown1:01
12."Party Where Your Heart Is"Trevor Armstrong1:01
13."Annie's Song"Eric Olsen1:37
14."Episode 119 Medley"Ludwig Göransson3:43
15."Come, Take a Trip in My Air-Ship"Chevy Chase, Danny Pudi, and Joel McHale0:47
16."Some Worries"Chevy Chase, Eric Olsen, and Tom Wolfe2:11
17."If I Die Before You"Ludwig Göransson2:50
18."At Least It Was Here (Community Main Title)" (Full-Length Version)The 882:50
Total length:34:45

Other tracks

Songs featured on the show that were not released on the soundtrack are available on composer Ludwig Göransson's official website.[200]

No.TitleWriter(s)EpisodesLength
1."Running Through Raining" (Annie Returns)Ludwig Göransson2121:55
2."Greendale Is Where I Belong"Ludwig Göransson125, 210, 217, 308, 309, 316, 320, 322, 405, 4131:34

Throughout the series, Michael Haggins' song "Daybreak" can be heard. On several occasions the characters are humming the tune and sometimes it can be heard playing on the radio in the background.[201]

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community, series, community, american, television, sitcom, created, harmon, series, episodes, over, seasons, with, first, five, seasons, airing, from, september, 2009, april, 2014, final, season, airing, yahoo, screen, from, march, june, 2015, community, coll. Community is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon The series ran for 110 episodes over six seasons with its first five seasons airing on NBC from September 17 2009 to April 17 2014 and its final season airing on Yahoo Screen from March 17 to June 2 2015 Set at a community college in the fictional Colorado town of Greendale the series stars an ensemble cast including Joel McHale Gillian Jacobs Danny Pudi Yvette Nicole Brown Alison Brie Donald Glover Ken Jeong Chevy Chase and Jim Rash It makes use of meta humor and pop culture references paying homage to film and television cliches and tropes CommunityGenreSitcom Surreal humor 1 Created byDan HarmonStarringJoel McHale Gillian Jacobs Danny Pudi Yvette Nicole Brown Alison Brie Donald Glover Ken Jeong Chevy Chase Jim RashOpening theme At Least It Was Here by The 88ComposerLudwig GoranssonCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons6No of episodes110 list of episodes ProductionExecutive producersAnthony RussoJoe Russo Dan Harmon Gary Foster Russ Krasnoff Neil GoldmanGarrett Donovan David Guarascio Moses Port Tristram Shapeero Chris McKenna Rob Schrab Patrick KienlenProduction locationsLos Angeles City College Paramount Studios CBS Studio Center Los AngelesCamera setupSingle cameraRunning time22 minutes seasons 1 5 24 30 minutes season 6 Production companiesKrasnoff Foster Entertainment Sony Pictures Television Open 4 Business Productions Universal Television Dan Harmon Productions season 1 3 Russo Brothers Films season 1 3 Harmonious Claptrap season 5 6 Yahoo Studios season 6 DistributorSony Pictures TelevisionReleaseOriginal networkNBC seasons 1 5 Yahoo Screen season 6 Picture formatHDTV 1080iAudio formatDolby DigitalOriginal releaseSeptember 17 2009 2009 09 17 June 2 2015 2015 06 02 Harmon based Community on his experiences attending Glendale Community College Each episode was written in accordance with Harmon s story circle template a method designed to create effective and structured storytelling Harmon was the showrunner for the first three seasons but was fired before the fourth and replaced by David Guarascio and Moses Port After weaker reviews Harmon was rehired for the fifth season after which NBC canceled the series Yahoo Screen revived the show for Community s sixth and final season Despite struggling in the ratings Community developed a cult following and received acclaim for its acting direction writing and meta humor It won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series in 2012 among other accolades In September 2022 after several years of speculation and development a feature length Community film was announced for NBC s streaming service Peacock 2 Contents 1 Premise 2 Cast and characters 3 Episodes 3 1 Webisodes 4 Production 4 1 Casting 4 2 Development 4 3 Writing 4 4 Filming 4 5 Third season 4 6 Fourth season 4 7 Fifth season 4 8 Sixth season 4 9 Film 5 Reception 5 1 Critical reception 5 1 1 First season 5 1 2 Second season 5 1 3 Third season 5 1 4 Fourth season 5 1 5 Fifth season 5 1 6 Sixth season 5 1 7 Post finale 5 2 Awards and nominations 5 3 Semiotics and Community 5 4 Ratings 6 Syndication 7 Home media 7 1 DVD 7 2 Blu ray 7 3 Digital 7 4 Streaming 8 Soundtrack 8 1 Track listing 8 2 Other tracks 9 References 10 External linksPremise EditJeff Winger is disbarred and suspended from his law firm when it is discovered that he lied about having a bachelor s degree from Columbia University To earn a legitimate degree he enrolls at Greendale Community College in Colorado He quickly becomes attracted to his classmate social activist Britta Perry and pretends to run a study group in order to spend time with her Britta invites classmate Abed Nadir who struggles with social interactions and is obsessed with pop culture who in turn brings other classmates along religious single mother Shirley Bennett naive over achiever Annie Edison former high school football star Troy Barnes and bigoted politically incorrect elderly millionaire Pierce Hawthorne Despite their differences the group s members soon become close friends They are often roped into helping the college s flamboyant dean Craig Pelton in his schemes to make the school seem more respectable as well as having to deal with the antics of their mentally unstable teacher and eventual classmate Ben Chang Season 1 follows Jeff s creation of the study group and its subsequent misadventures Season 2 sees Chang forced to enroll as a student and attempting to join the study group despite secretly planning revenge against it while Pelton is forced to fight for Greendale s sense of pride against the dean of rival school City College eventually culminating in a desperate paintball battle Season 3 focuses on Chang s villainous plot to take over the school as well as Troy struggling with whether or not to attend the cultlike air conditioning repair school Season 4 shows the study group in its senior year with all the characters especially Abed struggling with what may be their final moments together and Chang recovering from amnesia Season 5 sees Pierce s death and Troy leaving in the middle of the season while the other characters return to Greendale after graduation to save the school leading Jeff to take a job there as a teacher Season 6 ends the series with the characters reflecting on the last six years while new staff member Frankie Dart arrives at the dysfunctional school to make it more respectable forcing the group to question how much Greendale can be cleaned up while still remaining Greendale Cast and characters EditMain article List of Community characters The show features an ensemble cast of characters focusing on the members of a study group and a recurring group of faculty of Greendale Community College including the dean Joel McHale as Jeff Winger a former lawyer who enrolls at Greendale after being suspended by the state bar for falsely claiming to have a bachelor s degree Jeff is a sarcastic outspoken overconfident narcissist lothario who constantly manipulates people to get what he wants which is often to not do any work He first created the study group to date Britta Britta needed help studying and Jeff pretended to be a board certified Spanish tutor But as he becomes closer to his new study group some of his habits and views change Most of the group except Britta tends to idolize Jeff for his charisma and often seeks advice from him Although he initially dislikes his role as the group s straight man and tries to appear indifferent to their concerns before grudgingly helping them Jeff is more willing to make personal sacrifices for his friends over time and selectively reveals that he can be more patient and less critical than what other alpha males typically offer Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry an anarchist atheist and activist who traveled around the world after dropping out of high school Britta tries to seem proactive intelligent and mature but often comes off as pretentious and hypocritical especially when she decides to become a psychologist starting in season 3 This leads the other group members to see her as a bad influence on the group as evidenced by her taste in mentally damaged men and her tendency to make things go wrong Despite not being as worldly or well informed an activist as she thinks Britta has a genuine and powerful desire to help others and significant enthusiasm and energy for what she puts effort into whether appropriate or misplaced Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir a film student of Palestinian and Polish descent with an encyclopedic knowledge of TV shows and movies Abed struggles to interact with others via conventional means due to his implied autism so he often chooses to interpret the group s everyday activities by comparing them to film and TV cliches Despite being out of touch with reality at times Abed is a keen observer of human behavior and often the wisest member of the group These eccentricities allow him to pick up on flaws the other characters have and tend to bluntly point them out eventually resulting in the characters learning from his insights Harmon based the character on Abed Gheith whom he met through Channel 101 3 Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett seasons 1 5 guest season 6 a divorced mother and vocal Christian going to school to start a brownie business Shirley is a kind hearted person with strong morals but can be overbearing and often resorts to using guilt in her interactions with her friends Though soft spoken Shirley has a quick temper a characteristic that manifests when she is advocating for herself or her friends It is often implied that Shirley s Christian beliefs which she tends to impose on most non Christians around her are a means of coping with her anger issues and to repress the stress she deals with in raising her family while also dealing with school Alison Brie as Annie Edison the youngest of the group a compulsive overachiever relentlessly organized and comparatively innocent Annie was extremely unpopular in high school and formerly addicted to Adderall which has caused her to be very anxious and desperate to prove herself in a variety of extra curricular groups despite already being considered naturally intelligent and attractive by others Though normally kind hearted she can quickly turn obsessive or lose her temper when she fails to achieve or is denied something she strongly cares about However her friendship with Jeff as well as her living situation with Troy and Abed slowly allow her to become more laid back and genial Donald Glover as Troy Barnes seasons 1 5 a former high school star quarterback who lost his scholarship to a top tier university when he separated both shoulders doing a keg flip which he actually did on purpose in order to escape the pressures of his stardom and popularity Troy starts the series trying to appear cool and acting like a bully and a stereotypical football player but he eventually feels comfortable in embracing his nerdy and carefree side particularly in him becoming best friends with Abed Troy generally struggles with the idea of becoming older often looking to Jeff and Pierce for guidance despite already showing signs of being capable of leadership and connecting the group together Ken Jeong as Ben Chang an unstable Spanish teacher at Greendale Chang often takes extreme action against his students usually yelling at them for the slightest infraction or fervently using his superior status to taunt them He has alternately been a friend and foe of the study group his ultimate desire being to fit in with them though his behavior makes them desperate to not include him After Annie gets him fired at the end of season 1 Chang alternates between a variety of roles becoming a student in season 2 a security guard in season 3 as Kevin who is suffering from Changnesia a fake disease similar to amnesia during season 4 a math teacher under work release in season 5 and a member of the Save Greendale Committee in season 6 Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne seasons 1 4 guest season 5 a millionaire and CEO of the Hawthorne Wipes moist towelette company who enrolled at Greendale a decade prior to the start of the series out of boredom and a passive attempt at self discovery More than anyone else within the study group Pierce is often at odds with the rest of the group because of his arrogance lack of empathy and casual ignorance of politically correct behavior all of which largely stem from his old age and his emotionally abusive father This includes believing Britta is a closeted lesbian mispronouncing Abed s name and lusting over Shirley He also tends to envy the other group members particularly Jeff s relative youthful attractiveness and Abed s close friendship with Troy Despite his often unsociable and selfish nature Pierce desperately wants to fit in with the group and occasionally offers great insight and advice showing that he does care for each of the group members Jim Rash as Craig Pelton seasons 3 6 recurring seasons 1 2 the dean of Greendale who desperately wants his school to be more like a real university and goes to extreme lengths to try to make it fun and politically correct while frequently explaining his many unresolved business decisions A man of unclear sexual orientation he frequently attempts to flirt with Jeff and is an increasingly avid cross dresser In season 6 he identifies himself as gay though he views it as an insufficient label The study group is by far the Dean s favorite group of students and he is constantly making up excuses to come talk to them often by walking into their study room unannounced while wearing a costume in order to tell them about events going on in the school Episodes EditMain article List of Community episodes Community seasonsSeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast airedNetwork125September 17 2009 2009 09 17 May 20 2010 2010 05 20 NBC224September 23 2010 2010 09 23 May 12 2011 2011 05 12 322September 22 2011 2011 09 22 May 17 2012 2012 05 17 413February 7 2013 2013 02 07 May 9 2013 2013 05 09 513January 2 2014 2014 01 02 April 17 2014 2014 04 17 613March 17 2015 2015 03 17 June 2 2015 2015 06 02 Yahoo ScreenMost episodes feature titles designed to sound like the names of college courses such as Introduction to Film Anthropology 101 and Cooperative Calligraphy 4 Season 1 premiered on September 17 2009 in the 9 30 pm ET Thursday time slot 5 After three episodes the show was moved to 8 00 pm ET In October 2009 it was announced that the show had been picked up for a full 22 episode season 6 In January 2010 NBC ordered an additional three episodes for the first season extending it to 25 7 On March 5 2010 Community was renewed for a second season which premiered on September 23 2010 8 On March 17 2011 NBC renewed Community for a third season 9 On May 10 2012 Community was renewed for a fourth season consisting of 13 episodes 10 On May 10 2013 the show was renewed for a fifth season 11 On June 30 2014 it was announced that the show would return for a sixth season of 13 episodes on Yahoo Screen 12 Webisodes Edit In addition to the regular episodes NBC produced a series of webisodes Some focus on the daily life of Dean Pelton and others include a Spanish project study breaks and Abed copying his friends lives and turning them into student films These webisodes are featured on the front page of the Greendale Community College website on the AV Department page 13 On March 2 2012 it was announced that three animated webisodes would air exclusively on Hulu in lead up to the return of the series on March 15 2012 Titled Abed s Master Key the shorts were written by Dave Seger and Tom Kauffman of Channel 101 and animated by Animax Entertainment In the webisodes Abed becomes Dean Pelton s assistant and is given a master key to Greendale 14 Production EditCasting Edit Danny Pudi Gillian Jacobs Yvette Nicole Brown Alison Brie and Joel McHale at San Diego Comic Con 2012 Dan Harmon emphasized the importance of the cast to making the premise of the comedy work Casting was 95 percent of putting the show together he said in an interview 15 He had worked with several of the cast members previously Actor Chevy Chase had long been a favorite of Harmon Though initially not partial to sitcoms Chase was persuaded by the quality of the show s writing to take the job 15 Harmon saw similarities between Chase and the character he plays on the show Though Chase has often been ridiculed for his career choices Harmon believed this role could be redeeming What makes Chevy and Pierce heroic is this refusal to stop 16 Harmon had to warn Chase against playing a wise ass the way he often does in his roles since the character of Pierce is a rather pathetic figure who is normally the butt of the joke himself 16 McHale known from the E comedy talk show The Soup was also impressed by Harmon s writing He commented Dan s script was so head and shoulders above everything else that I was reading 17 McHale appealed to Harmon because of his likability which allowed the character to possess certain unsympathetic traits without turning the viewer against him 16 To play Annie Harmon wanted someone resembling Tracy Flick Reese Witherspoon s character in the 1999 movie Election Originally the producers were looking for a Latina or Asian Tracy Flick but they cast Alison Brie known for her role as Trudy Campbell on Mad Men 16 Series creator Dan Harmon Development Edit Harmon based the premise of Community on his own experiences In an attempt to save his relationship with his then girlfriend he enrolled in Glendale Community College northeast of Los Angeles where they would take Spanish together 15 Harmon got involved in a study group and somewhat against his own instincts became close friends with the members with whom he had very little in common I was in this group with these knuckleheads and I started really liking them he explained even though they had nothing to do with the film industry and I had nothing to gain from them and nothing to offer them 16 With this background Harmon wrote the show with a main character largely based on himself He had like Jeff been arrogant and emotionally distant to the extreme before he realized the value of understanding other people 16 About the creative process behind the writing Harmon said that he had to write the show as if it were a movie not a sitcom Essentially the process was no different from the earlier works he had done except for the length and the target demographic 16 Writing Edit Each episode of Community is written in accordance with Dan Harmon s template of story circles that he developed while at Channel 101 18 Harmon rewrote every episode except while not working on the show during its fourth season which helped lend the show his particular voice 19 Members of the Community writing staff have included Liz Cackowski Dino Stamatopoulos Chris McKenna Megan Ganz Andy Bobrow Alex Rubens Tim Saccardo and Matt Warburton Cast member Jim Rash who won an Academy Award in 2011 for co writing the film The Descendants also wrote a season four episode The show is known for its frequent use of thematic episodes every season which use cliches and television tropes as single episode concepts that play with suspension of disbelief while maintaining plot continuity 20 21 One notable thematic episode is Season 3 s Remedial Chaos Theory in which the cast explore seven different parallel realities of the same night with one key variation being a roll of a single six sided die in a game of Yahtzee that Jeff uses to dismiss a member of the group to go get a pizza the seventh variant is that the die was not rolled at all 22 Frequent episode themes are school year holidays Halloween and Christmas being the most frequent paintball 23 and various forms of animation 24 25 26 Filming Edit Filming the show involved a lot of improvisation particularly from Chase Of Chase Harmon said that he tends to come up with lines that you can actually end scenes with sometimes 27 He has also called McHale and Glover adept improvisers 17 Apart from a few exterior scenes shot at Los Angeles City College the show was filmed at the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood California during seasons one through five For season six the series moved to the CBS Studio Center and featured exterior scenes from Los Angeles City College for the first time since season two 28 The series used the single camera technique where each shot is filmed individually using the same camera 29 Third season Edit See also Community season 3 The series was renewed for a third season on March 17 2011 30 Filming for the season began on July 25 2011 31 Jim Rash who portrays Dean Pelton was promoted to a series regular after having a recurring role throughout the first two seasons 32 Michael K Williams was cast as the study group s new biology professor who is described as a deeply intense character 33 John Goodman appears as a recurring character throughout the season as Vice Dean Laybourne the head of Greendale s air conditioning repair school and is a foe for Dean Pelton 34 Community premiered its third season on September 22 2011 On November 14 2011 NBC announced that they were removing Community from their mid season schedule replacing it with the returning series 30 Rock 35 Fans of the series began a campaign to get the show back on the air using Twitter Tumblr and Facebook making hashtags such as SaveCommunity SixSeasonsAndAMovie and OccupyNBC trending topics 36 NBC responded to the backlash by announcing that the network was still planning to film and air the remainder of the 22 planned episodes after the undetermined hiatus and that the fate of the series would be determined after the planned episodes air 35 On December 7 2011 CollegeHumor released a video titled Save Greendale with the cast of Community using the cast of Community in character to promote the series and the school in a PSA styled video 37 On December 22 2011 fans of the series created a flash mob outside of NBC s Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York City to Occupy NBC The flash mob dressed in Christmas gear wearing darkest timeline goatees and singing O Christmas Troy from the first season s episode Comparative Religion and chanting Go Greendale go Greendale go 38 On January 6 2012 NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt announced that Community was not canceled though he did not mention a return date 39 On February 21 2012 creator Dan Harmon announced via Twitter that the third season would resume on March 15 2012 in its regular timeslot of Thursdays at 8 00 pm 40 Fourth season Edit See also Community season 4 Season 4 showrunners David Guarascio left and Moses Port right at a San Diego Comic Con panel for Community in July 2012 Series creator and executive producer Dan Harmon was replaced as showrunner for the series in the fourth season as writers David Guarascio and Moses Port co creators of the short lived Aliens in America took over as showrunners and executive producers Sony Pictures Television which produces the series with Universal Television initially said that Harmon would serve as a consulting producer but Harmon asserted that he was not informed of the deal and would not return in a position without any executive prerogatives 41 The end of the third season also marked several other departures including executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan writer producer Chris McKenna and actor writer Dino Stamatopoulos Frequent episode directors and executive producers Anthony and Joe Russo also left the show in order to direct Captain America The Winter Soldier 42 43 In early October 2012 NBC delayed the premiere of the fourth season which had been scheduled for October 19 2012 without announcing a new date 44 On October 30 2012 NBC announced that the fourth season would premiere on February 7 2013 returning to its original time slot of Thursdays at 8 00 pm 45 On November 21 2012 after saying the N word on set it was announced that Chevy Chase left the show by mutual agreement between the actor and network As a result of timing and the agreement made Chase s character Pierce is absent for two episodes he did not appear in the tenth episode produced as ninth Intro to Knots and the twelfth episode Heroic Origins 46 47 He also appeared in a voice only role in the episode Intro to Felt Surrogacy which was the final episode produced for the season and as part of his agreement to leave the show Chase was required to record all audio for the scenes where his character alongside the other characters appeared as a puppet 48 The season finale which was filmed out of sequence as it was the eleventh episode produced marked Chase s final on screen appearance as a regular cast member 49 He appeared in a cameo in the season 5 premiere 50 Fifth season Edit See also Community season 5 Chris McKenna on a Community panel at WonderCon 2012 On May 10 2013 the series was renewed for a fifth season 11 On June 1 2013 Harmon announced he would return as showrunner for season five replacing season four showrunners Moses Port and David Guarascio with former writer Chris McKenna returning as executive producer 51 On June 10 Sony Television confirmed the return of Harmon and McKenna for the fifth season 52 Dino Stamatopoulos Rob Schrab and the Russo brothers also returned Glover decided to not return as a full time cast member for the fifth season appearing only in the first five of the 13 episodes 53 To make up for his absence and Chase s Jonathan Banks was cast in the fifth season in August 2013 and appeared in 11 of the season s 13 episodes portraying Buzz Hickey a criminology professor 54 Additionally John Oliver who played Professor Duncan in the first two seasons reprised his role in season 5 for multiple episodes 55 On May 9 2014 NBC announced that it had canceled Community 56 For several years before its cancellation fans adopted the slogan six seasons and a movie a line from the episode Paradigms of Human Memory regarding Abed s hopeful legacy of short lived NBC series The Cape 57 58 59 Bids to continue the series were turned down by popular streaming providers like Netflix 60 and Hulu 61 Sixth season Edit See also Community season 6 On June 30 2014 the day the cast s contracts were due to expire Yahoo announced it had ordered a 13 episode sixth season to stream on Yahoo Screen including the main cast along with executive producers Dan Harmon Chris McKenna Russ Krasnoff and Gary Foster Harmon said I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo I look forward to bringing our beloved NBC sitcom to a larger audience by moving it online 12 However Yvette Nicole Brown dropped out to care for her ailing father although she made guest appearances in Ladders and Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television 62 Paget Brewster was cast as consultant Francesca Frankie Dart and Keith David was cast as inventor Elroy Patashnik 63 Filming began for season six on November 17 2014 and on December 8 2014 the series celebrated the milestone of 100 episodes 64 Filming ended on March 27 2015 65 In a June 3 2015 interview with TV Insider Dan Harmon explained why season six would likely be the last of the series We ve exploded into these successful shrapnel Dr Ken is now Dr Ken Alison has probably got her eye on movies Gillian is working on a Netflix show If there was some magical way of guaranteeing that everyone could come back all at once let s do it But it would be a lot easier to put together a movie project and get them all on board than to say Let s give it one more season 66 Despite the show s six seasons and a movie mantra Yahoo never formally marketed season six as its final season On July 30 2015 Joel McHale stated that Yahoo wanted to make more seasons of Community but all of the actors contracts were up after six years 67 McHale later clarified his statement via Twitter saying Community is not canceled 68 Yahoo released a statement We ve seen tremendous value in our partnership with Sony and are continuing to discuss future opportunities for Community 69 Harmon said he could have said yes immediately to season seven but given the actors velocity and trajectory decided in favor of getting the cast back together for an awesome movie 70 On January 4 2016 Yahoo announced it had shut down its Yahoo Screen service after a 42 million write down with its original programming being moved to Yahoo TV for continued public viewing 71 Film Edit In a June 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter Zack Van Amburg of Sony Pictures Television confirmed that a Community film was in the early stages of development Asked if Sony had plans beyond the sixth season Amburg said There s no way we re not making the movie now I think once we make the movie let s look up and decide how much more Community the world wants I d be lying if I told you that we have not had some very early and preliminary conversations that are very exciting about what a potential movie could be and who might direct it 72 One year later after the sixth season wrapped Harmon said he was not ready to produce a movie at the end of the season I told Yahoo I can t think about writing a movie until I miss Community They wanted to turn around and do a movie immediately and Yahoo can get it done They re like the NSA 73 In July 2016 during an interview with Larry King Now Harmon said that a Community movie will happen while expressing uncertainty on how to begin its production 74 In July 2017 in an interview with Time he said of a Community movie I recently had a conversation with a director that s the kind of guy whose weight in the industry could make that happen For the first time in a long time I m actually putting thought into that again 75 In November 2017 Harmon told The Wrap that both he and Justin Lin were working to make the movie happen 76 In January 2018 Pudi said the cast was still excited about the prospect of a film We have a little text chain so we re always like We re ready We re ready 77 On March 23 2018 McHale said he was still hopeful about the movie while noting that he felt bringing Glover back would be vital the film s success and was unsure whether this was feasible He elaborated It would be great to do I d do it in a New York minute 78 When asked in an interview in June 2019 about doing a Community movie Alison Brie said Yeah I think I would She later added I mean look it s like are we going to do the movie I feel like if the Community movie ever gets made it should just be made for Netflix and it would be fun to do but I think it would be best if we could get everyone to do it so I feel like that might be difficult 79 In a February 2020 Reddit Ask Me Anything thread Brie said she actually got an interesting call about it this week when questioned about a Community movie and said to stay tuned 80 As the show debuted on Netflix in April 2020 public exposure and interest picked up significantly That same month during an interview with Collider Joe Russo was asked if he and his brother Anthony would come back to do the movie He stated We d certainly be willing to do it We love our Community family That cast we re all still very close to all of them It d be schedule depending for us But I believe there will be a Community movie especially now that it s doing well on streaming Someone like Netflix could step up and make the movie 81 In May 2020 the original cast excluding Chase and Harmon announced that they would reunite via a livestream video for a benefit to raise money for the COVID 19 pandemic with a table read of Cooperative Polygraphy Pedro Pascal filled in for Walton Goggins who was unavailable 82 On May 13 a few days before the table read Gillian Jacobs talked about her belief that the entire cast would want to return for a movie 83 In a Q amp A session immediately following the May 18 livestream video table read the cast including Glover expressed interest in a movie 84 85 Harmon confirmed in 2021 he had begun work on the script and that any logistical issues with creating a Community movie were mostly solved He described the challenging part of the movie was more philosophical namely whether the movie would be approachable to a viewer unfamiliar with the television show 86 Harmon said in August 2022 that a movie was definitely going to happen and could be expected in between one and eight years He said that the movie had an outline and that There s a product put together and pitched out in the world 87 The Peacock streaming service announced that they had ordered the film in September 2022 Harmon and Andrew Guest will write the film while McHale Pudi Brie Jacobs Rash and Jeong are set to return Of the main cast Glover Brown and Chase are not confirmed 2 However Harmon said in November that Glover was down to clown 88 Harmon also said that there had been a bidding war among distributors for the rights to the film but Peacock outbid other competitors for the film 89 As of November 2022 the movie s script is being written 88 Reception EditCritical reception Edit Season Critical responseRotten Tomatoes Metacritic1 90 41 reviews 90 69 23 reviews 91 2 100 18 reviews 92 86 4 reviews 93 3 91 22 reviews 94 82 4 reviews 95 4 65 40 reviews 96 69 18 reviews 97 5 93 42 reviews 98 80 15 reviews 99 6 89 36 reviews 100 78 12 reviews 101 First season Edit The show s first season received mostly positive reviews scoring 69 out of 100 based on 23 critics on Metacritic 91 Season 1 scored 90 on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes with the site s critical consensus reading Snarky and fast paced with a surprisingly tender undercurrent and an engaging cast Community is one of the best new comedies of the season 90 David Bushman Curator Television of the Paley Center for Media called Community the best new show of the fall season 102 Jonah Krakow of IGN gave the first season an 8 5 saying that Community eventually ramped up and delivered some amazing stories in the second half of the season 103 Second season Edit The second season received high critical acclaim scoring 86 out of 100 based on 4 critics on Metacritic 93 Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 100 with a critical consensus that reads Community unfurls into a marvel of meta madness in its sophomore season artfully deconstructing sitcom tropes while repeatedly knocking its own emotional beats out of the park 92 Emily Nussbaum of New York Magazine and Heather Havrilesky of Salon com rated Community as the best show of 2010 104 105 In The A V Club s list of the 25 best television series of 2010 Community ranked second stating that the best episodes were Modern Warfare Cooperative Calligraphy and Abed s Uncontrollable Christmas 106 IGN named Community the best comedy series in both 2010 and 2011 107 108 Third season Edit Danny Pudi has received critical acclaim for his performance Acclaim for the show continued in the third season scoring 82 out of 100 based on 4 critics on Metacritic 95 It also topped the Metacritic User Poll in the category Best Television Show of 2011 receiving 3 478 points 109 Rotten Tomatoes gave season 3 a 91 with a critical consensus that reads The Greendale study group take some of their boldest swings though not all connect in this freewheeling third season that nevertheless continues Community s streak as the gold standard for fiendishly clever television 94 Community placed on several critics top television lists including ranked second by Paste 110 fifth by both HitFix 111 and The Huffington Post 112 first by Hulu 113 and third on TV com s Top 100 Everything of 2011 114 In 2012 Entertainment Weekly listed the show at 15 in the 25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years with high praise The series affinity for ambitious high concept story lines e g few shows are willing to turn over an entire episode to stop motion animation meta humor and constant pop culture allusions has helped it earn the kind of fervent fan following some of its higher rated comedic competitors must envy 115 A user poll on Splitsider named Remedial Chaos Theory as the best sitcom episode of all time beating out The Simpsons episode Marge vs the Monorail 116 Fourth season Edit Reviews for the fourth season were generally positive but less enthusiastic than the reception of the first three seasons It scored 69 out of 100 based on 18 critics on Metacritic 97 The season 4 rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 65 and the critical consensus reads Despite some behind the scenes drama the fourth season of Community manages to retain the playful energy potent humor and kooky stories the show is famous for 96 Verne Gay of Newsday stated the show was still defiantly Community still good and still uninterested in adding new viewers 117 On the other hand Hitfix s Alan Sepinwall wrote It feels like Moses Port David Guarascio and the other writers decided to reverse engineer the Dan Harmon version of Community but couldn t quite manage without the missing ingredient of Harmon himself 118 Mike Hale of The New York Times has stated that the series has been dumbed down its humor broadened past recognition and the two episodes provided for review have fewer laughs between them than a single good scene from the old Community 119 Fifth season Edit The fifth season received critical acclaim scoring an 80 out of 100 based on 15 reviews on Metacritic 99 Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 93 with the critical consensus reading With Dan Harmon back as its show runner Community returns with a familiar new energy and more fun exciting adventures for the Greendale gang 98 Many critics cited the return of series creator Dan Harmon as a strength Verne Gay from Newsday said of the season that it was about as good a Community restart as anyone could have possibly hoped for 120 Sixth season Edit The sixth season continued to receive positive reviews scoring a 78 out of 100 based on 12 reviews on Metacritic 101 and scoring an 89 approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus being Despite cast and broadcast changes Community manages to remain at the top of its quirky class 100 Amy Amatangelo of The Hollywood Reporter wrote Everything fans loved about Community remains the show has seamlessly transferred to an online venue 121 The Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd considered something special about the season commenting that it lives in consciousness of its own construction in a kind of existential but also dramatically meaningful way 122 The New York Times s Mike Hale felt Harmon responsible for turning countercultural whimsicality into affecting fast paced comedy in the season 123 Time s James Poniewozik felt it the same show in humor and quality though he noted an absent sense of mission regarding the characters Maybe it s enough for Community free of the ratings pressures of NBC to live its second life free to be weird and playful and experimental 124 Post finale Edit Since its final episode Community has appeared on a number of lists determining the greatest television shows of all time In TV The Book Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ranked Community 54th in their combined top 100 list placing them in the section titled Groundbreakers and Workhorses 125 In 2017 IGN placed it 51st in its top 100 ranking of TV shows with writer Jonathon Dornbush describing it as a meta love letter to the films and shows that inspired it and its creator Dan Harmon 126 Awards and nominations Edit Main article List of awards and nominations received by Community In 2009 the series received a nomination for Favorite New TV Comedy at the 36th People s Choice Awards 127 In 2010 at the 41st NAACP Image Awards Justin Lin received a nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for Introduction to Statistics 128 At the 2010 Teen Choice Awards the series received a nomination for Breakout Show and Ken Jeong was nominated for Breakout Star Male 129 For Entertainment Weekly s 3rd Ewwy Awards it was nominated for Best Comedy Series 130 Joel McHale was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy 131 and Danny Pudi was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy 132 In 2011 Betty White received a nomination for Favorite TV Guest Star at the 37th People s Choice Awards 133 Yvette Nicole Brown won the 2011 Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 134 The series received a nomination for Best Directing for a Comedy Series at The Comedy Awards 135 For the 1st Critics Choice Television Awards it was nominated for Best Comedy Series while Joel McHale and Danny Pudi were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in Comedy Series respectively 136 The episode Abed s Uncontrollable Christmas won a 2011 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Animation 137 At the 42nd NAACP Image Awards Justin Lin was nominated for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for the episode Modern Warfare 138 At the 27th TCA Awards Community was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy and Danny Pudi was nominated for Individual Achievement in Comedy 139 The series received four nominations for the 2011 Satellite Awards for Best Comedy or Musical Series Joel McHale for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series and Donald Glover for Best Supporting Actor in a Series Miniseries or TV Movie while it won Best Television Release for the season two DVD set 140 In 2012 Community was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the episode Remedial Chaos Theory written by Chris McKenna 141 Also that year the show won the awards for Favorite Comedy and Favorite Ensemble in the 2012 TV Guide Magazine Fan Favorites Awards 142 Remedial Chaos Theory was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2012 for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form 143 Community also won the Hulu Best in Show award for 2012 beating 30 Rock Parks and Recreation New Girl and Modern Family in the first four rounds and The Walking Dead in the final round by 11 000 votes 144 It won Hulu s Best in Show award again in 2013 beating out Game of Thrones in the final round with 60 of the votes 145 146 At the 2nd Critics Choice Television Awards Community received the most nominations and won Best Comedy Series 147 Joel McHale was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Series Jim Rash and Danny Pudi were nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs were nominated Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series 148 Community was also nominated for TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy at the 2012 TCA Awards 149 Semiotics and Community Edit While sitcoms are often underrepresented in the academic study of television 150 Community is an exception More specifically television critics and scholars often reference Community when discussing semiotics the study of signs in television and film Television itself does not convey meaning but rather viewers construct meaning based on recognizable signs and references 151 page needed so a complex show like Community is rich with potential semiotic analysis Some critics have even claimed that the show itself is about semiotics Mordicai Knode of Tor com suggests the show is about the tropes of every single genre it is about the cinematic language and the shared culture we all bring piecemeal to the table when we sit down as audiences 152 Dan Harmon fills each episode with signs and references in order for the audience to deconstruct and construct their own meaning even going so far as to break the fourth wall to give viewers a wink and a nod to the show s complexity Fans of Community require a certain level of rhetorical and interpretive skills 153 page needed to pick up on these semiotic layers of the series The most important knowledge a viewer brings to the viewing of Community is the subconscious recognition of indicators for other formal systems meaning other genres or specific texts with help from subconscious hypotheses and charts that are built on previous experiences with similar works 151 page needed Ratings Edit Premiering in the 9 30 pm ET spot on September 17 2009 the pilot episode had a viewership of 7 680 million In the 18 49 audience it had a rating of 3 7 As such it held 93 of this audience from The Office which had been in the previous time slot The show was called the bright spot for the night for NBC seeing how The Office was down 18 from the previous year s premiere while Parks and Recreation in the preceding time slot was down 30 154 However the show like many other NBC comedies at the time including The Office Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock would later struggle in the ratings despite critical acclaim 155 though the show did tend to improve after factoring in DVR ratings 156 Some commentators noted that the show s uniqueness and ambition prevented it from achieving the broad appeal of other sitcoms 155 157 Seasonal rankings based on average total viewers per episode of Community Note Each U S network television season starts in late September and ends in late May which coincides with the completion of May sweeps Ratings for Community Season Timeslot ET Episodes Premiere Finale TV season Rank Viewers in millions Date Premiere viewers in millions 18 49rating Date Finale viewers in millions 18 49rating1 Thursday 9 30 pm Until October 1 2009 Thursday 8 00 pm Since October 8 2009 25 September 17 2009 7 89 158 3 8 158 May 20 2010 4 41 159 2 0 159 2009 10 97 of 140 160 5 00 160 2 Thursday 8 00 pm 24 September 23 2010 5 01 161 2 2 161 May 12 2011 3 32 162 1 5 162 2010 11 138 of 268 163 4 44 163 3 22 September 22 2011 3 93 164 1 7 164 May 17 2012 2 48 165 1 3 165 2011 12 144 of 195 166 4 03 166 4 13 February 7 2013 3 88 167 1 9 167 May 9 2013 3 08 168 1 3 168 2012 13 133 of 187 169 3 58 169 5 13 January 2 2014 3 49 170 1 3 170 April 17 2014 2 87 171 1 0 171 2013 14 96 of 149 172 3 00 172 Syndication EditOn March 14 2012 Comedy Central announced that it had purchased the rights to Community for syndication that began airing in September 2013 at the same time as weeknight syndication on local stations 173 On November 28 2020 the show made its debut on IFC 174 Community premiered in syndication in Canada on The Comedy Network on September 4 2012 175 In January 2014 the show moved to Canadian sister channel MuchMusic 176 The series made its Canadian over the air broadcast debut in 2018 when the series moved to CHCH 177 In the United Kingdom Community aired on subscription cable network Universal TV from 2011 to 2016 with season one also airing on MTV s free to air Viva channel and Channel 4 Television Corporation s 4Music 178 In India Community premiered on Star World in 2010 179 It began airing on Comedy Central from 2016 180 Home media EditDVD Edit The first season was released in region 1 on September 21 2010 in a four disc set The set includes all 25 episodes plus bonus features including commentary on every episode by cast and crew members extended versions of the Pilot and Communication Studies episodes outtakes Season One Cast Evaluations featurette Season One Highlight Reel featurette Creative Compromises featurette Advanced Criminal Law alternative scenes and three mini episodes 181 The second season was released in region 1 on September 6 2011 It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members outtakes animatics for Abed s Uncontrollable Christmas and making of featurettes covering that episode as well as A Fistful of Paintballs and For a Few Paintballs More 182 The third season was released in region 1 on August 14 2012 It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members gag reel deleted scenes This is War Pillows vs Blankets mockumentary featurette and A Glee ful Community Christmas featurette 183 The fourth season was released in region 1 on August 6 2013 It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members gag reel deleted scenes Inspector Spacetime Inspection featurette and Adventures in Advanced Puppetry featurette 184 The fifth season was released in region 1 on August 5 2014 It features commentary on every episode by cast and crew members gag reel and two featurettes Re Animating the 80s and Advanced Television Production 5 Days 2 Scripts No Sleep 185 The sixth season was released on DVD in region 1 on March 8 2016 Special features include deleted scenes a behind the scenes featurette on the making of the finale trivia with the cast and crew and a gag reel 186 The complete series was released on DVD in region 1 on November 15 2016 Special features include all the features from the first six seasons 187 Blu ray Edit On June 6 2018 it was announced that Community The Complete Series would be released by Mill Creek Entertainment on high definition Blu ray on October 23 2018 188 Digital Edit In the United States the complete series is available on Hulu and Netflix The first three seasons are available on Netflix throughout Latin America with Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese subtitles 189 All six seasons are available via the iTunes Store The series was available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video UK until February 1 2015 when seasons one through five also became available on Netflix in the UK and Ireland until 2017 190 In Australia the entire series is available on Stan 191 In 2018 all six seasons were made available on All 4 the streaming service of Channel 4 in the United Kingdom 192 Streaming Edit The series has been available to stream through Netflix Hulu and Amazon Prime Video in the U S Amazon Prime Video and Netflix in Canada Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom Netflix and TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand Netflix in Ireland Australia and Latin America and All 4 in the United Kingdom On April 1 2020 the series became available to stream on Netflix worldwide 193 Since Community s addition to Netflix the show began to reach a wider audience and entered into Netflix s top 10 most popular shows in April 2020 194 Season 6 is still available to view on Yahoo s website and app including exclusive Communitary commentary from cast writers and producers On June 26 2020 Netflix and Hulu removed the season 2 episode Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons from their platforms due to controversial scenes with Chang playing a dark elf by wearing black make up and a white wig which was perceived as blackface Several other live action comedies had episodes featuring blackface removed as well 195 At the time Harmon did not comment on the episode s removal 196 In a 2021 interview with The New York Times Harmon remarked that justifiably they re stripping it from the streaming archives because it s got a joke about blackface but added that it is probably the best episode of Community 197 Soundtrack EditCommunity Music from the Original Television Series Soundtrack album by various artistsReleasedSeptember 21 2010 2010 09 21 GenreSoundtrackLength34 45LabelMadison GateA soundtrack for the first season titled Community Music from the Original Television Series was released on September 21 2010 198 by Madison Gate Records 199 The track list includes the main title theme At Least It Was Here by The 88 original songs and incidental music composed for the show by series composer Ludwig Goransson and several songs were performed by the characters a mix of original compositions and covers Track listing Edit Community Music from the Original Television Series No TitleArtistLength1 At Least It Was Here Community Main Title Main Title Version The 880 352 101 Rap Donald Glover and Danny Pudi0 353 Getting Rid of Britta Chevy Chase Eric Olsen and Tom Wolfe2 154 Pierce You Are a B Eric Olsen Tom Wolfe and Jacques Slade2 215 Pierce Raps Jacques Slade0 376 Night Cap Jacques Slade2 107 The Way It Is Chevy Chase1 008 Community Medley Ludwig Goransson4 379 Somewhere Out There Donald Glover and Danny Pudi2 1010 I Never Die Jacques Slade1 5111 Sensitive Night Yvette Nicole Brown1 0112 Party Where Your Heart Is Trevor Armstrong1 0113 Annie s Song Eric Olsen1 3714 Episode 119 Medley Ludwig Goransson3 4315 Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship Chevy Chase Danny Pudi and Joel McHale0 4716 Some Worries Chevy Chase Eric Olsen and Tom Wolfe2 1117 If I Die Before You Ludwig Goransson2 5018 At Least It Was Here Community Main Title Full Length Version The 882 50Total length 34 45 Other tracks Edit Songs featured on the show that were not released on the soundtrack are available on composer Ludwig Goransson s official website 200 No TitleWriter s EpisodesLength1 Running Through Raining Annie Returns Ludwig Goransson2121 552 Greendale Is Where I Belong Ludwig Goransson125 210 217 308 309 316 320 322 405 4131 34 Throughout the series Michael Haggins song Daybreak can be heard On several occasions the characters are humming the tune and sometimes it can be heard playing on the radio 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