There goes the weekend! Every episode of Community is now streaming exclusively on Stan. To celebrate, here are our favourite 10 episodes ever! What’s your top pick?
Community is a comedy that is ranked as one of the most inventive and original half-hours on television. It centers around friends who all met at what is possibly the world’s worst educational institution – Greendale Community College.
In no particular order, here are our essential eps from season 1 through to 6, now streaming on Stan.
PS. Alison Brie FTW!
Digital Estate Planning
Season 3, Episode 20.
Pierce and his closest friends are summoned to Hawthorne Labs to play a video game that will determine who inherits his father’s fortune.
One of the best ever! An epic 8-bit adventure complete with 80s synth soundtrack. Bonus: LaVar Burton aka Geordi La Forge from Star Trek.
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Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care
Season 6, Episode 2.
The Dean purchases a VR system for Greendale that could bankrupt the school, forcing Jeff to find the creator, Elroy Patashnik, to save them.
Lots of geeky Virtual Reality jokes here — with a special nod to The Lawnmower Man.
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Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas
Season 2, Episode 11.
When Abed wakes up to a world in stop-motion animation, he takes it as a sign that he and the group must rediscover the meaning of Christmas.
An amazing claymation homage to Christmas specials with references to The Polar Express, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and more.
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Pillows and Blankets
Season 3, Episode 14.
The Greendale students are drawn into an epic pillow fight as Troy and Abed start a war that threatens to destroy their friendship.
A crazy adventure inside a giant, sprawling pillow fort — presented in the style of Ken Burns’ documentary, The Civil War.
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A Fistful of Paintballs / For A Few Paintballs More
Season 2, Episodes 23 and 24.
A paintball war pits the study group members against each other for $100,000, but when a mysterious challenger appears, they must join forces to stop him. As the paintball war is revealed to be a City College plan to destroy the school, Jeff and Troy vie for control of Greendale’s embattled army.
If you liked the ‘Modern Warfare’ paintball episode in the first season, you’ll love this double episode season 2 finale. $100,000 is up for grabs as the entire Greendale campus goes to war. Paintball style.
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Basic Rocket Science
Season 2, Episode 4.
Jeff and the study group salvage an ageing museum exhibit that Dean Pelton plans to make the centrepiece of Greendale’s aerospace training program.
An hilarious spoof of Apollo 13. What would happen if the Community crew got caught in space? Kind of.
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Epidemiology
Season 2, Episode 6.
Dean Pelton’s army-surplus party food sparks an outbreak of `zombie-ism’ at the Greendale Halloween party.
Halloween. Zombies. Yes!
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Seasons 2, Episode 14.
Seeing how everyone on campus makes fun of Fat Neil, Jeff decides to do something about it.
An emotional, sweet and superb episode that sees the study group change the life of a vulnerable classmate for the better.
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Remedial Chaos Theory
Season 3, Episode 3.
When Jeff introduces an element of randomness into Troy and Abed’s housewarming party, reality splits into six timelines affecting the group’s relationships.
Speaking of dice! A random episode in the best way possible.
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Geothermal Escapism
Season 5, Episode 5.
Abed’s hot lava fantasy game goodbye to Troy divides Greendale into warring camps.
Remember playing this game as a kid? Now imagine an entire school playing along with you!