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America's most incorrigible study group of misfits returns for a
hilariously ingenious new year at Greendale Community College.
From homicidal Halloween pizza parties, holiday Glee Club
smackdowns, foosball showdowns, epic pillow fight wars and an
underage campus security force to a shocking remarriage, a
riotous funeral service, submarine sandwich throwdowns, a new
Vice Dean (Emmy® winner John Goodman) with a strange
air-conditioning fixation and a crime show homage for the ages —
the Third Season of television’s boldest, best comedy is the
most brilliant yet. Get ready to cram it all in. Starring Joel
McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison
Brie, Donald Glover, Jim , with Ken Jeong and Emmy® winner
Chevy Chase. INTERNATIONAL: Everyone’s favorite, most
incorrigible study group of misfits returns for a hilariously
ingenious new year at Greendale Community College. From homicidal
Halloween pizza parties, holiday Glee Club smackdowns, foosball
sho
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The third season of Community opens with a musical number
promising to be "less weird than the first two years combined"--a
promise that, thankfully, goes right out the window as the
episode culminates in the eternally glib Jeff (Joel McHale)
attacking the study group's table with a fire ax. From there,
Community is a freewheeling, ridiculous, and surprisingly complex
dissection of sitcoms, friendship, and pop culture in general.
The parodies of Law & Order, Glee, and Ken Burns documentaries
are only the tip of the iceberg. In the Halloween episode, the
characters take turns telling horror stories, each reflecting
both pop takes on horror and the character's own psyche. Another
episode takes place mostly inside of a video game (with the
characters converted into delightful digital avatars), others
slip into anime graphics or heist-movie plot mechanics or follow
out multiple possible timelines, another mimics Hearts of
Darkness, the documentary about the making of Apocalypse
Now--this is the stuff of which postmodern doctoral theses and
obsessive cult fandom are made. Woven through the season are the
efforts of Vice Dean Laybourne (guest star John Goodman,
Roseanne) to woo Troy (Donald Glover) into the arms of the Air
Conditioning Repair School Annex and the gradual rise of Chang
(Ken Jeong) from homelessness to brutal dictatorship, thanks to a
hit squad of ruthless 12-year-olds.
Community demands that viewers pay attention and think about
American culture at large to catch all the comedy, which is not
what most people expect from a sitcom. But this and
ambition is exactly what makes Community so rare and
rewarding--and so funny, for anyone willing to engage. The
writing is consistently smart and inventive, the cast (McHale,
Glover, Jeong, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Yvette
Nicole Brown, Chevy Chase, and Jim as the "pansexual imp"
Dean Pelton) is charming and wholly committed to their roles, and
the multiple directors maintain a consistency of tone even when
adopting radically different visual styles. Community, like the
great Arrested Development, pursues its distinctive humor to the
fullest. Watch it from the beginning. --Bret Fetzer