Six Seasons and a Movie

The Study Group

Television Appreciation 401

Greendale Community College

Six Seasons and a Movie

Community is a sitcom that lasted six seasons in various formats and was created by Dan Harmon. The show, while owing several of its seasons to the dedicated fans, is once again on hiatus. But not to worry. After the ban on dioramas after the incident that we all know as “changnado” and its sequel “changnado 2” the Greendale Study Group has discovered the best way to run a show and it is with six seasons and a movie. Community will be our case study.

You gotta have some awesome stuff in a show to make it to six seasons: Paintball, zombies, monkeys, chicken fingers, an awesome best friend, and anything else you dream up in your dreamatorium. Community has all this and more. It’s probably the best show since Inspector Spacetime. What’s the point of watching something lame? While some of the networks Britta’d up the show was cool enough that fans brought it back. After season five, a lot of the main characters left to do other things like sail around the world with TV’s Levar Burton or to wait in vapor form for something really cool at the end of the world. But I agree with the hosts of the popular morning show, Troy and Abed in the Morning, that six seasons and a movie would be the perfect run for any show.

You could say Community came back from the dead and taught us valuable, wholesome lessons about life. Community taught us about accepting one another and loving one another. Even if they are heathens. The show approached a wide variety of issued with sensitivity and with realism that you don’t often see in sitcoms. I don’t know why those television people couldn’t see that they had a perfectly good show right in front of them; it doesn’t matter if there was a little more drama in it than the normal sitcom.

The group likes doing things without me so much; I’ll just let them do this by themselves.

Community was a show committed to quality. Its characters underwent significant growth while still retaining their essence. Audiences were allowed to find comfort in the show’s familiarity while never become bored with repetitive or formulaic jokes that relied on the social mistakes of the vaguely autistic character. The show also refused to conform to the traditional sitcom formula and included several ambitious and well executed homages (sometimes misidentified as parodies) to popular genres and films. These homages relied heavily on action and science fiction films, but also included mobster, crime, and heist formats. While the show changed over the years the first three, or golden, years came to establish the show. After a gas leak as the story arc for season four season five attempted to return to this golden age, but that was impossible. Season six was picked up and changed once again for online audiences. The sixth season saw many of the characters leave the community to seek out new adventures. However, enough plot-lines were left unresolved to warrant a final movie to wrap things up.

Television may have its dumb moments this show included. Nobody is perfect, but the fans came together to save the stupid thing so I say we respect what they fought for. Community ran six seasons and ended on a high note. We came through hardship and every change the studio threw at us. We lived through a gas leak for god’s sake. There were rewards, yes. Those fans deserve more than a crappy essay or even a diorama. They deserve a film to say goodbye to the most attractive character ever to grace the screen. They deserve to see him one more time and remember him always as the coolest guy ever. Six seasons and a movie! Say it with me. Six Seasons And A Movie! AND A MOVIE!

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Community was created by Dan Harmon. None of the characters are mine.

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