I liked all seasons of Community (the last three are all half-seasons, so basically you have 4 and a half seasons total).
While the roots of what the show would be were there in first season, it kind of wasn't until second that it starting really getting its feet under it. Its another one with the massive wackyness (although it never slips out of realism to become magical realism -- unless you count the 6 alternate universes...)
Season 4 (the creater-less half-season) tries too hard to prove it is still The Same Show, but it doesn't suck. But I think seasons 2 and 3 are my favorite -- there is the zombie apocalypse Halloween, the Christmas where they all turned into claymation figures, the day they played D&D to save someone's life, the Blanket versus Pillow Fort civil war, the Law & Order: Community episode, the time they played a crappy 8-bit video game to save their friend's fortune... that's not mentioning the show that DETAILED all the 6 alternate universes, the time they became the school's glee club, the time that the (former) Spanish teacher took over the school and attempted to blow it up (by playing keytair) and any of the paintball episodes. Or Inspector Spacetime. Or the Air Conditioning Annex. Or... *forcibly stops herself*
The thing is, in all that full-out wackiness, there was (usually) a central core of character. People acted the way they acted because of their personalities and because of the stresses they were enduring. Most of the above wackiness followed from friendships with people who were broken but (cue Stitch) still good, still family.
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While the roots of what the show would be were there in first season, it kind of wasn't until second that it starting really getting its feet under it. Its another one with the massive wackyness (although it never slips out of realism to become magical realism -- unless you count the 6 alternate universes...)
Season 4 (the creater-less half-season) tries too hard to prove it is still The Same Show, but it doesn't suck. But I think seasons 2 and 3 are my favorite -- there is the zombie apocalypse Halloween, the Christmas where they all turned into claymation figures, the day they played D&D to save someone's life, the Blanket versus Pillow Fort civil war, the Law & Order: Community episode, the time they played a crappy 8-bit video game to save their friend's fortune... that's not mentioning the show that DETAILED all the 6 alternate universes, the time they became the school's glee club, the time that the (former) Spanish teacher took over the school and attempted to blow it up (by playing keytair) and any of the paintball episodes. Or Inspector Spacetime. Or the Air Conditioning Annex. Or... *forcibly stops herself*
The thing is, in all that full-out wackiness, there was (usually) a central core of character. People acted the way they acted because of their personalities and because of the stresses they were enduring. Most of the above wackiness followed from friendships with people who were broken but (cue Stitch) still good, still family.
So yeah... I whole-heartedly recommend Community.