#Community storywriting series

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. Main article: List of Community characters

#Community storywriting series

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. Season 5 sees Pierce's death and Troy leaving in the middle of the season, while all of the other characters return to Greendale after graduation to save the school, leading Jeff to take a job there as a teacher. Season 4 shows the study group in their senior year, with all of the characters (especially Abed) struggling with what may be their final moments together, and Chang recovering from amnesia. 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 cult-like air conditioning repair school. Season 2 sees Chang forced to enroll as a student and attempting to join the study group despite secretly planning revenge against them, 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 1 follows Jeff's creation of the study group and their subsequent misadventures. 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.

Despite their differences, the members of the group soon become close friends. However, 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 racist, elderly millionaire Pierce Hawthorne. 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. To earn a legitimate degree, he enrolls at Greendale Community College in Colorado. Jeff Winger is disbarred and suspended from his law firm when it is discovered that he lied about possessing a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. Since the series ended, and as recently as 2021, former crew and cast members have expressed interest in a potential film. The series won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Series in 2012, among other accolades. After a lukewarm response to the fourth season from fans and critics, Harmon was re-hired for the show's fifth season, after which the series was canceled by NBC Yahoo! Screen revived the show for what would be Community 's sixth and final season.ĭespite struggling in the ratings during its run, Community developed a cult following and received critical acclaim for its acting, direction, and writing, as well as its meta-humor. Harmon served as showrunner for the show's first three seasons but was fired prior to the fourth season and replaced by David Guarascio and Moses Port. Each episode was written in accordance with Harmon's 'story circle' template, a method designed to create effective and structured storytelling. Harmon based the program on his own experiences attending Glendale Community College. It makes heavy use of meta-humor and pop culture references, often paying homage to film and television clichés and tropes.

Set at a community college in the fictional Colorado town of Greendale, the series stars an ensemble cast consisting of Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, and Jim Rash. 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. Community is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon.