![]() This episode also escalates Jeff and Britta's ongoing flirtation to the next level. It all culminates in the funniest half-hour of television in 2010, the paintball episode "Modern Warfare," a sublime send-up of the action/post-apocalyptic horror genre. But a sense of the ridiculous also infuses the stories, and I love that because I'm down with the goofy stuff as well. I like me the unapologetic snark, and COMMUNITY happens not only to shovel in the meta-references, it also parodies everything under the sun, and does it in sharp, wicked ways. Thru Jeff - who establishes a fake Spanish study group so that he can chat up pretty fellow student Britta (Jillian Jacobs) - we meet the rest of the diverse cast. ![]() This show is as much about Jeff Winger's redemption from a shady counselor who is endlessly manipulative to a better human being (who, okay, is still pretty manipulative). ![]() So he's forced to enroll in Greendale Community College. Like Troy and Abed's Spanish rap to close out the second episode ("Spanish 101") or Vaughn's song, "Gettin' Rid of Britta" ("Home Economics"), or Abed dressed up as Batman in the Halloween episode ("Introduction to Statistics").Įven though the show is about a, well, community of people of all ages and from all walks of life attending community college, our point-of-view character is initially Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a smug lawyer who was disallowed from plying his craft when the state bar learned that his law degree is from Colombia instead of Columbia. Except, even before that, there were already glimmers of awesome. From the Christmas episode on, COMMUNITY picks up momentum and begins to consistently knock it out the park. ![]() While the season's first half is mostly the show trying to get its sea legs - and so there are episodes which are a bit shaky - press on, sir, and you'll get to the turnaround. If you want to know what the fuss is all about, and the furor and the hullabaloo, then you ought to give COMMUNITY a try. ![]()
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