Community is an American television comedy series created by Dan Harmon that premiered on September 17, 2009 on NBC. The series follows a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television clichés and tropes.[1]
As of May 2012, the series has completed three seasons, and has been renewed by NBC for a fourth season of 13 episodes,[2] but with the series changing time slots from Thursdays to Fridays at 8:30 pm,[3] and without series creator Dan Harmon as showrunner.[4]
Community begins when Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), a suspended lawyer, enrolls in Greendale Community College after it is discovered that he falsely claimed to have a bachelor's degree. The series focuses on the experiences of Jeff and the study group that he forms in an attempt to attract the romantic attention of Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), a former anarchist trying to get her life back on track. The other members of Jeff's study group include Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase), a millionaire on a late-in-life voyage of self-discovery; Annie Edison (Alison Brie), a young strait-laced student and former prescription drug addict; Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), a former high school star quarterback who lost his scholarship to a top-tier university; Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), a single mother and vocal Christian going to school to jumpstart her brownie business; and Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), a pop-culture-obsessed film student. The group originally unites as a study group for the Spanish 101 class taught by egomaniacal teacher "Señor" Ben Chang (Ken Jeong), and quickly become friends.
The ensemble cast centers on Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase), Annie Edison (Alison Brie), and Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), members of a study group. Also recurring are unbalanced former Spanish instructor Señor Ben Chang (Ken Jeong) and the overwhelmed Dean, Craig Pelton (Jim Rash), who desperately wants his school to be more like a real university and goes to strenuous and excessive lengths to seem politically correct.
Most episodes feature titles designed to sound like the names of college courses such as "Introduction to Film", "Anthropology 101" and "Cooperative Calligraphy".[5] Aside from the pilot, only four episodes have non-course names: "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas", "A Fistful of Paintballs", "For a Few Paintballs More", and "Pillows and Blankets". The first season premiered on September 17, 2009 in the 9:30 pm ET timeslot.[6] After three episodes, the show was moved to the 8:00 pm ET timeslot. In October 2009, it was announced that the show had been picked up for a full twenty-two episode season.[7] In January 2010, NBC ordered an additional three episodes for the first season, extending it to a total of 25 episodes.[8] On March 5, 2010, Community was renewed for a second season and premiered on September 23, 2010.[9] On March 17, 2011, NBC renewed Community for a third season.[10] On May 10, 2012, Community was renewed for a fourth season consisting of 13 episodes;[2] subsequently afterward on May 13, 2012, NBC announced the series would move from its Thursday night slot to 8:30 pm ET on Friday nights for the 2012–13 season.[3]
In addition to the regular episodes, NBC produced a series of webisodes. Some are focused 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.[11]
On March 2, 2012, it was announced that three animated webisodes will 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.[12]
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.[13] He had worked with several of the cast members earlier; Joel McHale, John Oliver, and Chevy Chase all had cameo roles in episode 9 of Water and Power, the short film series produced by Harmon for Channel 101.[14] Actor Chevy Chase had long been a favorite of Harmon. Though initially not very partial to sitcoms, Chase was persuaded to take the job by the quality of the show's writing.[13] 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."[15] 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.[15]
McHale, known from the E! comedy talk show The Soup, was also (like Chase) impressed by Harmon's writing. He commented that "Dan's script was so head and shoulders above everything else that I was reading."[16] McHale appealed to Harmon because of his likeable quality, which allowed the character to possess certain unsympathetic traits without turning the viewer against him.[15] For the role of Annie, Harmon wanted someone who would resemble Tracy Flick, Reese Witherspoon's character from the 1999 movie Election. Originally the producers were looking for a Latina or Asian Tracy Flick, but could not find any. Instead they ended up casting Alison Brie, known for her role as Trudy Campbell on Mad Men.[15]
Series creator Dan Harmon
The premise of Community was based on Harmon's real-life 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.[13] Harmon got involved in a study group and, somewhat against his own instincts, became closely connected to the group of people with whom he had very little in common. "...I was in this group with these knuckleheads and I started really liking them," he explains, "even though they had nothing to do with the film industry and I had nothing to gain from them and nothing to offer them."[15] With this as the background, Harmon wrote the show with a main character largely based on himself. He had, like Jeff, been self-centered and independent to the extreme before he realized the value of connecting with other people.[15]
About the creative process behind the writing, Harmon says 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 work he had done, except for the length and the target demographic.[15]
Filming the show involved a lot of improvisation, particularly from Chevy Chase. About Chase, Harmon said that he "tends to come up with lines that you can actually end scenes with sometimes."[17] He also mentioned Joel McHale and Donald Glover, the actors who portray Jeff and Troy respectively, as adept improvisers.[16]
Series creator and executive producer Dan Harmon will no longer serve as showrunner for the series beginning with the fourth season, as writers David Guarascio and Moses Port (co-creators of the short-lived Aliens in America) will take over as showrunners and executive producers. Sony Pictures Television, which produces the series with Universal Television, says that Harmon would serve as a consulting producer, but Harmon affirms he wasn't informed of any of this and will not return in a position with no executive prerogatives.[4] The end of the third season also marks several other departures including executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, writer/producer Chris McKenna, actor/writer Dino Stamatopoulos, and frequent episode directors and executive producers Anthony and Joe Russo.[18][19]
The show's first season received mostly positive reviews, scoring 69 out of 100 based on 23 critics on Metacritic.[20] Notably, David Bushman (Curator, Television) of the Paley Center for Media called Community the best new show of the fall season.[21] 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."[22] The second season received very positive reviews, scoring 88 out of 100 based on 4 critics on Metacritic.[23] Emily Nussbaum of New York Magazine and Heather Havrilesky of Salon.com rated Community as the best show of 2010.[24][25] 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".[26] IGN named Community the best comedy series in both 2010 and 2011.[27][28] Critical acclaim for the show continued in 2011, with the third season scoring 81 out of 100 based on 4 critics on Metacritic.[29] It also topped the Metacritic User Poll in the category 'Best Television Show of 2011', receiving 3,478 points.[30] Community placed on several critics top television lists; including ranked second by Paste,[31] fifth by both HitFix[32] and The Huffington Post,[33] first by Hulu[34] and third on TV.com's Top 100 Everything of 2011.[35]
The series received a nomination for Favorite New TV Comedy at the 36th People's Choice Awards.[36] At the 41st NAACP Image Awards, Justin Lin received a nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for "Introduction to Statistics".[37] At the 2010 Teen Choice Awards, the series received a nomination for Breakout Show and Ken Jeong was nominated for Breakout Star Male.[38] For Entertainment Weekly's 3rd Ewwy Awards, it was nominated for Best Comedy Series,[39] Joel McHale was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy[40] and Danny Pudi was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.[41] Betty White received a nomination for Favorite TV Guest Star at the 37th People's Choice Awards.[42] The series received a nomination for Best Directing for a Comedy Series at the The Comedy Awards.[43] The episode "Modern Warfare" won the 2010 Gold Derby TV Award for Comedy Episode of the Year.[44] 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.[45] The show won the awards for Favorite Comedy and Favorite Ensemble in the 2012 TV Guide Magazine Fan Favorites Awards.[46] The episode "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" won a 2011 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Animation.[47] Another episode, "Remedial Chaos Theory", was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2012 for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.[48] It 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.[49]
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%.[50]
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.
| Season |
Timeslot (ET) |
Episodes |
Premiered |
Ended |
TV season |
Rank |
Viewers
(in millions) |
| Date |
Premiere viewers
(in millions) |
Date |
Finale viewers
(in millions) |
| 1 |
Thursday 9:30 pm (September 17, 2009 – October 1, 2009)
Thursday 8:00 pm (October 8, 2009 – May 20, 2010)
|
25 |
September 17, 2009
|
7.89[51] |
May 20, 2010
|
4.41[52] |
2009–2010 |
#97[53] |
5.00[53] |
| 2 |
Thursday 8:00 pm |
24 |
September 23, 2010
|
5.01[54] |
May 12, 2011
|
3.32[55] |
2010–2011 |
#115[56] |
4.48[56] |
| 3 |
22 |
September 22, 2011
|
3.93[57] |
May 17, 2012
|
2.48[58] |
2011–2012 |
#144[59] |
4.03[59] |
| 4 |
Friday 8:30 pm |
13 |
TBA
|
TBA |
TBA
|
TBA |
2012–2013 |
TBA |
TBA |
Community was absent from NBC's 2011–2012 mid-season schedule, being replaced with the returning series 30 Rock.[60] 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.[61] NBC responded to the backlash by announcing that the network is still planning to film and air the remainder of the 22 planned episodes after the undetermined hiatus, and the fate of the series will be determined after the planned episodes air.[60]
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.[62] 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!".[63] On January 6, 2012, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt announced that Community was not canceled, though he did not mention a return date.[64]
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.[65]
| Country |
Channel(s) |
Season 1 |
Season 2 |
Season 3 |
Notes |
| Premiere |
Finale |
Premiere |
Finale |
Premiere |
Finale |
 Australia |
Go! |
March 23, 2010 |
|
November 30, 2010 |
|
April 5, 2012 |
|
Season 1 aired Tuesdays at 9:00 pm[66] but moved on June 7 to Mondays at 8:30 pm.[67]
Season 2 aired Tuesdays at 9:30 pm and premiered with a double episode.
Season 3 airs Thursdays at 9:00 pm. |
| TV1 |
April 25, 2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
Season 1 aired weeknights at 5:30 pm.[68] |
 Canada |
Citytv |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Simultaneous substitution from NBC |
 Denmark |
TV3+ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Germany |
ProSieben |
April 28, 2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Hong Kong
 Indonesia
 Malaysia
 Philippines
 Singapore
 Thailand
 Taiwan |
Fox |
January 2, 2012 |
February 4, 2012 |
March 19, 2012 |
April 5, 2012 |
|
|
Both seasons air on weeknights at 9:50 pm (8:50 pm for Indonesia and Thailand). Double episodes for season 2. |
 India |
STAR World |
March 14, 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
Airs Mondays at 11:00 pm |
 Brazil |
Sony Entertainment Television |
March 23, 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
 Netherlands |
Comedy Central |
|
|
|
|
May 2, 2012 |
|
|
 New Zealand |
Four |
February 7, 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
Airs Mondays at 8:00 pm.[69] |
 Poland |
Fox |
August 30, 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
Season 3 airs every Sunday at 9:00 pm. |
 Spain |
AXN White |
|
|
|
|
May 12, 2012 |
|
|
 South Africa |
Vuzu |
April 7, 2010 |
September 22, 2010 |
February 2, 2011 |
July 13, 2011[70] |
|
|
|
 United Kingdom |
Viva |
October 5, 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Double episodes on Tuesdays at 10:00 pm[71] |
| Sony Entertainment Television |
|
|
April 10, 2012[72] |
|
|
|
|
On March 14, 2012, Comedy Central announced that it has purchased the first, second, and third seasons of Community for syndication to begin airing in late 2013.[73]
The first season was released in North America on DVD 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.[74]
The second season was released on DVD on September 6, 2011. It also 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".[75]
A soundtrack for the first season, titled Community (Music from the Original Television Series) was released on September 21, 2010[76] by Madison Gate Records.[77] The tracklist 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).
|
|
| 1. |
"At Least It Was Here (Community Main Title)" (main title version) |
The 88 |
0:35 |
| 2. |
"101 Rap" |
Donald Glover and Danny Pudi |
0:35 |
| 3. |
"Getting Rid of Britta" |
Chevy Chase, Eric Olsen and Tom Wolfe |
2:15 |
| 4. |
"Pierce You Are a B" |
Eric Olsen, Tom Wolfe and Jacques Slade |
2:21 |
| 5. |
"Pierce Raps" |
Jacques Slade |
0:36 |
| 6. |
"Night Cap" |
Jacques Slade |
2:10 |
| 7. |
"The Way It Is" |
Chevy Chase |
0:59 |
| 8. |
"Community Medley" |
Ludwig Göransson |
4:37 |
| 9. |
"Somewhere Out There" |
Donald Glover and Danny Pudi |
2:09 |
| 10. |
"I Never Die" |
Jacques Slade |
1:50 |
| 11. |
"Sensitive Night" |
Yvette Nicole Brown |
1:01 |
| 12. |
"Party Where Your Heart Is" |
Trevor Armstrong |
1:01 |
| 13. |
"Annie's Song" |
Eric Olsen |
1:37 |
| 14. |
"Episode 119 Medley" |
Ludwig Göransson |
3:43 |
| 15. |
"Come, Take a Trip in My Air-Ship" |
Chevy Chase, Danny Pudi and Joel McHale |
0:46 |
| 16. |
"Some Worries" |
Chevy Chase, Eric Olsen and Tom Wolfe |
2:10 |
| 17. |
"If I Die Before You" |
Ludwig Göransson |
2:49 |
| 18. |
"At Least It Was Here (Community Main Title)" (full-length version) |
The 88 |
2:50 |
Songs featured on the show that were not released on the soundtrack are available on composer Ludwig Göransson's official website.[78]
|
| 1. |
"Running Though Raining" (Annie returns) |
Ludwig Göransson |
212 |
1:55 |
| 2. |
"Greendale is Where I Belong" |
Ludwig Göransson |
125, 210, 217, 308, 309, 314, 320, 322 |
1:34 |
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