The best episodes of Community

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Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

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9.2

#1 - Modern Warfare

Season 1, Episode 23, 5/6/2010

The first prize of priority registration engulfs Greendale Community College in a Spring Fling paintball war.

9.2

#2 - Remedial Chaos Theory

Season 3, Episode 4, 10/13/2011

When Jeff introduces an element of randomness into Troy and Abed's housewarming party, reality splits into six timelines.

9.0

#3 - Contemporary American Poultry

Season 1, Episode 21, 4/22/2010

A scheme to replace a corrupt cafeteria employee transforms the study group into a criminal gang run by a power-hungry Abed.

8.9

#4 - Digital Estate Planning

Season 3, Episode 20, 5/17/2012

Pierce and his closest friends are summoned to Hawthorne Labs to play a video game that will determine who will inherit his father's fortune.

8.8

#5 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Season 2, Episode 14, 2/3/2011

Abed invites "Fat Neil" to play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with the rest of the study group, hoping to boost his confidence, after Jeff becomes concerned about him being a loner. When Pierce finds out he was not invited, he joins anyway, disrupting their plans.

8.8

#6 - Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design

Season 2, Episode 9, 11/18/2010

When Jeff tries to obtain credit for a fictitious class, the unintended consequences rock Greendale. Abed and Troy build an elaborate blanket fort.

8.8

#7 - A Fistful of Paintballs (1)

Season 2, Episode 23, 5/5/2011

A $100,000 paintball war prize pits members of the study group against one another, until they decide to join forces to stop a mysterious challenger.

8.8

#8 - Pillows and Blankets (2)

Season 3, Episode 14, 4/5/2012

The students of Greendale are drawn into an epic pillow fight as Troy and Abed start a war that threatens to destroy their unique friendship.

8.7

#9 - Epidemiology

Season 2, Episode 6, 10/28/2010

Dean Pelton's army surplus party food sparks an outbreak of zombie-ism at the Greendale Halloween party.

8.7

#10 - For a Few Paintballs More (2)

Season 2, Episode 24, 5/12/2011

As the paintball war is revealed to be a City College plot, Jeff and Troy vie for control of Greendale's ragtag army, while Pierce betrays the group.

8.7

#11 - Basic Lupine Urology

Season 3, Episode 17, 4/26/2012

When the yam the study group was growing for biology class is killed, Troy and Abed are on the case.

8.6

#12 - Cooperative Calligraphy

Season 2, Episode 8, 11/11/2010

Annie's missing pen leads to friction within the group.

8.6

#13 - Paradigms of Human Memory

Season 2, Episode 21, 4/21/2011

Working on their final anthropology diorama, Chang finds a cache of items stolen by Troy's monkey that dredge up unhappy memories for the study group.

8.6

#14 - Documentary Filmmaking: Redux

Season 3, Episode 8, 11/17/2011

As Dean Pelton films a new commercial for Greendale, the production takes a wild turn once he discovers that a famous alum has agreed to appear in it.

8.6

#15 - Curriculum Unavailable

Season 3, Episode 19, 5/10/2012

After Abed is caught trespassing at Greendale, he and his friends visit a psychiatrist.

8.6

#16 - Geothermal Escapism

Season 5, Episode 5, 1/23/2014

For Troy's last day at Greendale, Abed holds a campus-wide "hot lava" fantasy game. With a comic book worth $50,000 as the prize, it's an all-out war.

8.5

#17 - Cooperative Polygraphy

Season 5, Episode 4, 1/16/2014

Pierce's funeral leaves the study group with mixed feelings, especially after their late tormentor leaves one last test to reveal everyone's secrets.

8.5

#18 - Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas

Season 2, Episode 11, 12/9/2010

The meaning of Christmas is lost and Abed's intense fixation on the holiday concerns the group in this special stop-motion animation episode.

8.4

#19 - Introduction to Statistics

Season 1, Episode 7, 10/29/2009

Jeff sets his sights on an attractive professor, and Annie looks to boost her social standing by hosting a Day of the Dead party.

8.4

#20 - The First Chang Dynasty

Season 3, Episode 21, 5/17/2012

The study group stages an elaborate heist to break in to Greendale and free Dean Pelton from the clutches of Chang.

8.4

#21 - Basic Intergluteal Numismatics

Season 5, Episode 3, 1/9/2014

With the mysterious Ass Crack Bandit back at Greendale, Annie and Jeff are on the case. As clues and suspicions mount, Shirley delivers shocking news.

8.3

#22 - App Development and Condiments

Season 5, Episode 8, 3/6/2014

A new caste system takes over when Greendale beta tests an app that ranks everyone. Shirley loves her new status, but Jeff and Britta want it stopped.

8.3

#23 - Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television

Season 6, Episode 13, 6/2/2015

The former study group's future — and friendships — are put to a test when one chapter of their lives closes and a new one begins.

8.3

#24 - Debate 109

Season 1, Episode 9, 11/12/2009

As Jeff is drafted to help lead Greendale's debate team against the formidable City College, Abed's film-class projects appear to predict the future.

8.3

#25 - Virtual Systems Analysis

Season 3, Episode 16, 4/19/2012

After sending Troy and Britta on a date, Annie volunteers to keep Abed company in his Dreamatorium.

8.3

#26 - Introduction to Finality

Season 3, Episode 22, 5/17/2012

Jeff agrees to represent Shirley in a case against Pierce to determine official ownership of their new sandwich shop.

8.2

#27 - Basic Rocket Science

Season 2, Episode 4, 10/14/2010

Jeff and the group must salvage an aging museum exhibit that Dean Pelton wants as the centerpiece of Greendale's proposed aerospace training program.

8.2

#28 - Mixology Certification

Season 2, Episode 10, 12/2/2010

Troy's friends help him celebrate his 21st birthday.

8.2

#29 - Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking

Season 2, Episode 16, 2/17/2011

Claiming that he is about to die, Pierce summons the study group to the hospital to bequeath his belongings to them.

8.2

#30 - Critical Film Studies

Season 2, Episode 19, 3/24/2011

Jeff and the group arrange a Pulp Fiction birthday party for Abed, but he has his own plans, starting with an expensive dinner for himself and Jeff.

8.2

#31 - Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps

Season 3, Episode 5, 10/27/2011

When a personality test suggests that one group member is a homicidal maniac, they use a series of scary Halloween stories to expose the killer.

8.2

#32 - Regional Holiday Music

Season 3, Episode 10, 12/8/2011

The study group is slowly convinced to fill in for the Glee Club at Greendale's Christmas pageant.

8.1

#33 - Comparative Religion

Season 1, Episode 12, 12/10/2009

Shirley's plans for a holiday party are in jeopardy when Jeff is drawn into a fight with a campus bully.

8.1

#34 - Physical Education

Season 1, Episode 17, 3/4/2010

The study group helps Abed land a date with a girl, and Jeff squares off with a P.E. coach who insists that he wear gym shorts to a billiards class.

8.1

#35 - Anthropology 101

Season 2, Episode 1, 9/23/2010

When the semester starts, Jeff is stunned that his rejection of Britta has made her a campus star; Chang wants to be accepted into the study group.

8.1

#36 - Modern Espionage

Season 6, Episode 11, 5/19/2015

Heroes are born, promises are broken and the stakes are raised when paintball makes an explosive return to Greendale's campus.

8.0

#37 - Introduction to Film

Season 1, Episode 3, 10/1/2009

Jeff struggles to get a good grade, and Britta's offer to bankroll his film class exposes a rift between Abed and his angry father.

8.0

#38 - Pascal's Triangle Revisited

Season 1, Episode 25, 5/20/2010

As the end of the school year finds Jeff at the apex of a romantic triangle, Annie ponders moving away with her hacky sack-playing boyfriend.

8.0

#39 - Aerodynamics of Gender

Season 2, Episode 7, 11/4/2010

Abed endears himself to the girls after he offers to take down their enemies on campus; Jeff and Troy stumble onto a groundskeeper's secret paradise.

8.0

#40 - Studies in Modern Movement

Season 3, Episode 7, 11/10/2011

Annie has second thoughts about moving in with Troy and Abed once she realizes that they expect her to live in a blanket fort.

7.9

#41 - Introduction to Teaching

Season 5, Episode 2, 1/2/2014

Abed tackles a two-day crash course on Nicolas Cage, while a clueless Jeff begins his teaching career with Annie as his most demanding student.

7.9

#42 - Communication Studies

Season 1, Episode 16, 2/11/2010

As Valentine's Day finds Jeff struggling with his feelings for Britta and Professor Slater, Pierce and Troy are wrongly blamed for a prank.

7.9

#43 - Basic Genealogy

Season 1, Episode 18, 3/11/2010

As Family Day lands Jeff in the middle of an affair with Pierce's sexy ex-stepdaughter, Shirley's unruly sons help liberate Abed's Afghani cousin.

7.9

#44 - Beginner Pottery

Season 1, Episode 19, 3/18/2010

A pottery class he takes for an easy A reveals Jeff's deep-seated need to succeed.

7.9

#45 - English as a Second Language

Season 1, Episode 24, 5/13/2010

On the eve of an important final exam in Spanish, everyone's grades are jeopardized when it is discovered that Señor Chang has a damaging secret.

7.9

#46 - The Psychology of Letting Go

Season 2, Episode 3, 10/7/2010

A death provokes a fierce debate about Pierce's religious beliefs. Britta and Annie are at odds over tactics in the Gulf oil spill fund-raising drive.

7.9

#47 - Intro to Political Science

Season 2, Episode 17, 2/24/2011

For an upcoming vice-presidential visit, Glendale's Dean Pelton hastily organizes an election for student body president that pits Annie against Jeff.

7.9

#48 - Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism

Season 3, Episode 9, 12/1/2011

When Shirley agrees to coach Jeff in foosball, they realize that she bullied him mercilessly when they were kids.

7.8

#49 - Environmental Science

Season 1, Episode 10, 11/19/2009

Faced with an unreasonable amount of Spanish homework, Jeff's efforts to handle Señor Chang manage to help him, but not the rest of the class.

7.8

#50 - The Science of Illusion

Season 1, Episode 20, 3/25/2010

When her April Fools' Day prank inadvertently sends a human cadaver out the anatomy lab window, Britta looks to place the blame on Jeff.

7.8

#51 - Accounting for Lawyers

Season 2, Episode 2, 9/30/2010

When an old friend from Jeff's past appears unexpectedly, his friends discover that he was the one responsible for Jeff's disbarment.

7.8

#52 - Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Season 5, Episode 10, 3/20/2014

To help Hickey be a more involved grandfather, which means patching up a bad relationship with his son, the gang creates an epic role-playing game.

7.8

#53 - Basic Sandwich

Season 5, Episode 13, 4/17/2014

To save Greendale from being sold, the gang searches for an eccentric computer science professor's legendary treasure hidden beneath the school.

7.7

#54 - Social Psychology

Season 1, Episode 4, 10/8/2009

As Annie recruits Abed and Troy for a psychology class experiment, Jeff and Shirley bond over their mutual fondness for gossip.

7.7

#55 - Advanced Criminal Law

Season 1, Episode 5, 10/15/2009

As Pierce volunteers to compose a new school song, a cheating episode in Spanish class leaves Jeff defending Britta before a disciplinary tribunal.

7.7

#56 - Football, Feminism and You

Season 1, Episode 6, 10/22/2009

Annie's dream of being the ex-football star's girlfriend is in jeopardy when Jeff is blackmailed into getting Troy to join Greendale's football team.

7.7

#57 - Interpretive Dance

Season 1, Episode 14, 1/21/2010

As Jeff and Prof. Slater try to keep their student-teacher romance under wraps, Britta and Troy tell everyone about their shared passion for dance.

7.7

#58 - Romantic Expressionism

Season 1, Episode 15, 2/4/2010

Jeff and Britta team up to derail Annie's fledgling romance with Greendale's resident hippie singer-songwriter, Vaughn.

7.7

#59 - Early 21st Century Romanticism

Season 2, Episode 15, 2/10/2011

On Valentine's Day, Troy and Abed compete for the attention of an assistant librarian, while Britta tries to show she's open-minded about lesbians.

7.7

#60 - Course Listing Unavailable

Season 3, Episode 18, 5/3/2012

After a classmate suddenly dies, the study group decides to host a memorial, but Jeff turns his speech into an angry anti-Greendale rant.

7.6

#61 - Analysis of Cork-Based Networking

Season 5, Episode 6, 1/30/2014

While Annie and Hickey's fight to get a bulletin board repaired spirals out of control, Abed and Britta go to war over spoilers of his favorite show.

7.6

#62 - Basic Human Anatomy

Season 4, Episode 11, 4/25/2013

When Annie and Shirley learn that Leonard is actually holding the spot as the class valedictorian, they join forces to bring him down.

7.6

#63 - Pilot

Season 1, Episode 1, 9/17/2009

When the legitimacy of his degree is challenged, lawyer Jeff Winger must return to school, where he meets a clan of misfit community college students.

7.6

#64 - Spanish 101

Season 1, Episode 2, 9/24/2009

While Jeff looks to use a Spanish class assignment to get close to Britta, Pierce has something altogether different in mind.

7.6

#65 - The Art of Discourse

Season 1, Episode 22, 4/29/2010

While a tasteless prank ends with Pierce being tossed out of the group, Britta and Jeff are forced to team up against some teen newcomers at school.

7.6

#66 - Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples

Season 2, Episode 5, 10/21/2010

Shirley and Abed are at odds over his plan to direct and star in his own epic religious film.

7.6

#67 - Asian Population Studies

Season 2, Episode 12, 1/20/2011

With Chang pressing for membership in the study group, Annie's latest crush has Jeff reeling as Shirley unveils some stunning news.

7.6

#68 - Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts

Season 2, Episode 22, 4/28/2011

As the semester ends, the anthropology final is disrupted when Shirley goes into labor and her husband, Andre, is summoned to school for the birth.

7.6

#69 - Biology 101

Season 3, Episode 1, 9/22/2011

As Jeff tries to keep Pierce from rejoining the study group, Dean Pelton faces off with Vice Dean Laybourne for control of Greendale.

7.6

#70 - Contemporary Impressionists

Season 3, Episode 12, 3/22/2012

The study group must work as celebrity impersonators at a bar mitzvah to pay off Abed's debt to a talent agency owner.

7.6

#71 - Digital Exploration of Interior Design (1)

Season 3, Episode 13, 3/29/2012

When Britta falls for the human embodiment of the Subway sandwich chain, Shirley and Pierce hope to use the situation to their advantage.

7.6

#72 - Origins of Vampire Mythology

Season 3, Episode 15, 4/12/2012

When a carnival comes to Greendale, Annie goes to great lengths to make sure that Britta doesn't contact her carnival worker ex-boyfriend.

7.6

#73 - Wedding Videography

Season 6, Episode 12, 5/26/2015

When two Greendale students get married, the wedding reception takes a turn after Jeff unwittingly exposes an inconvenient truth.

7.6

#74 - Heroic Origins

Season 4, Episode 12, 5/2/2013

Abed's research into the study group's history uncovers an overlooked series of chance encounters that led each of them to Greendale.

7.6

#75 - Herstory of Dance

Season 4, Episode 8, 4/4/2013

Jeff sets out to embarrass Britta when she announces a dance for women's empowerment. Abed dreams of shuttling between two dates in one night.

7.5

#76 - Home Economics

Season 1, Episode 8, 11/5/2009

Jeff is forced out of his condo and into Abed's dorm room, and Annie looks to get Troy's attention by helping him plan a romantic picnic.

7.5

#77 - Investigative Journalism

Season 1, Episode 13, 1/14/2010

Jeff accepts an invitation to be the editor of the school paper as he and his friends fend off an interloper who wants to join their study group.

7.5

#78 - Competitive Wine Tasting

Season 2, Episode 20, 4/14/2011

Jeff is suspicious of Pierce's engagement to a pretty classmate. Troy invents a childhood trauma to impress Britta, and Abed challenges a professor.

7.5

#79 - Geography of Global Conflict

Season 3, Episode 2, 9/29/2011

As Annie competes with an overachieving rival in a Model United Nations competition, Jeff wrestles with his feelings for his ambitious friend.

7.5

#80 - Competitive Ecology

Season 3, Episode 3, 10/6/2011

The study group struggles to incorporate a fellow classmate while working on a project for Professor Kane's class.

7.5

#81 - Advanced Gay

Season 3, Episode 6, 11/3/2011

When a drag queen's song makes Hawthorne Wipes an iconic gay product, Pierce embraces it, until his homophobic dad shows up to squelch the idea.

7.5

#82 - VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing

Season 5, Episode 9, 3/13/2014

Abed and Annie try to solve their new roommate dilemma with a retro VCR game, while Jeff, Shirley and Hickey hatch a plan to sell stolen textbooks.

7.5

#83 - Basic Story

Season 5, Episode 12, 4/10/2014

The Save Greendale Committee's success is short-lived when the board votes for a corporate sellout, but Pelton, Annie and Abed might find a solution.

7.5

#84 - Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality

Season 5, Episode 7, 2/27/2014

Jeff counsels a smitten Duncan on how to get a date with Britta but is developing feelings of his own. An angry Hickey tries to teach Abed a lesson.

7.4

#85 - Celebrity Pharmacology

Season 2, Episode 13, 1/27/2011

Pierce's efforts to bribe director Annie may undermine the theater group's antidrug play; Jeff's texting prank puts Britta in an awkward situation.

7.4

#86 - Queer Studies & Advanced Waxing

Season 6, Episode 4, 3/31/2015

Dean Pelton's sexuality gives him an uncomfortable edge for a school board seat. Chang scores a surprise win in a stage adaptation of "The Karate Kid."

7.4

#87 - Ladders

Season 6, Episode 1, 3/17/2015

New administrative consultant Frankie's strict — and sobering — changes split the group when Abed goes rogue to side with the enemy.

7.3

#88 - Repilot

Season 5, Episode 1, 1/2/2014

With his law practice doomed, Jeff returns to Greendale to start a class action suit against the school, but a hologram of Pierce has him reconsider.

7.3

#89 - Basic Crisis Room Decorum

Season 6, Episode 3, 3/24/2015

A rival's attack ad puts the group into defensive mode — and a moral quandary. Britta and Chang find new ways to gross everyone out.

7.3

#90 - Advanced Introduction to Finality

Season 4, Episode 13, 5/9/2013

A plan to celebrate Jeff's early graduation is unexpectedly disrupted by the study group's evil doppelgangers from the Darkest Timeline.

7.3

#91 - G.I. Jeff

Season 5, Episode 11, 4/3/2014

Jeff's depression over turning 40 leads him to drink himself unconscious. In his dreams, he and the gang are part of the "G. I. Joe" cartoon team.

7.3

#92 - The Politics of Human Sexuality

Season 1, Episode 11, 12/3/2009

With his high-price "escort" girlfriend on his arm, Pierce pressures Jeff into asking Dean Pelton's airhead secretary to double date at the STD Fair.

7.2

#93 - Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care

Season 6, Episode 2, 3/17/2015

When Dean Pelton loses himself — and a chunk of the college budget — in a virtual reality system, Jeff seeks help from its cantankerous inventor.

7.2

#94 - Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy

Season 2, Episode 18, 3/17/2011

Although Shirley and Andre don't want Chang involved with her baby, he resolves to be a good dad. Abed and Troy's new friend may be a war criminal.

7.2

#95 - Conventions of Space and Time

Season 4, Episode 3, 2/21/2013

Troy worries about losing Abed to a fellow Inspector Spacetime fan at a convention for the show, while Annie fantasizes about being married to Jeff.

7.2

#96 - Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations

Season 4, Episode 5, 3/7/2013

Britta joins Jeff to see his estranged father on Thanksgiving. Shirley invites the rest of the group to spend the holiday with her judgmental in-laws.

7.1

#97 - Intro to Recycled Cinema

Season 6, Episode 8, 4/28/2015

A commercial catchphrase catapults Chang to viral fame and a life-changing move. The group bands together to make movie magic for Abed.

7.1

#98 - Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts

Season 3, Episode 11, 3/15/2012

When Shirley's remarriage to Andre threatens to put her dreams of starting a business with Pierce on hold, Britta steps in.

7.1

#99 - Paranormal Parentage

Season 4, Episode 2, 2/14/2013

On the way to a Halloween party, the study group must free Pierce from his panic room and slowly comes to suspect that his mansion is haunted.

7.1

#100 - Intro to Knots

Season 4, Episode 10, 4/18/2013

Jeff organizes a lovely holiday gathering at his apartment, but Annie secretly invites Professor Cornwallis to get in his good graces.

6.9

#101 - Basic Email Security

Season 6, Episode 6, 4/14/2015

A hacker angry over a racist comic's planned campus performance threatens to publish the activity committee's personal emails.

6.9

#102 - Basic RV Repair and Palmistry

Season 6, Episode 10, 5/12/2015

A 19-foot plaster hand guides the group on an emotional journey as they travel through mountains and flashbacks while aboard Elroy's RV.

6.9

#103 - Alternative History of the German Invasion

Season 4, Episode 4, 2/28/2013

The study group contends with a group of German students who take over the study room. Chang makes his return to campus.

6.9

#104 - Advanced Documentary Filmmaking

Season 4, Episode 6, 3/14/2013

Greendale comes together to get to the bottom of Chang's amnesia, which Abed films as a documentary. Jeff, however, suspects Chang is faking it.

6.9

#105 - Intro to Felt Surrogacy

Season 4, Episode 9, 4/11/2013

Dean Pelton prompts the study group to use puppets to relive the traumatic events of a recent adventure.

6.8

#106 - Grifting 101

Season 6, Episode 9, 5/5/2015

Visiting Professor DeSalvo gives Jeff and his friends a master class in grifting and a bonus lesson on the art of revenge.

6.8

#107 - History 101

Season 4, Episode 1, 2/7/2013

As Jeff competes for spots in an overbooked 'History of Ice Cream' class, Abed copes with the looming end of their time at Greendale by retreating into a surreal mental 'happy place', while Annie and Shirley engage in school-wide pranks.