Ah Community, thank you so much for proving NBC that a non-mockumentary sitcom can work if it's well written with a solid cast and not full of self indulgent easy gags that 30 Rock loves too much.
Dan Harmon and Joe & Anthony Russo have given us a grower, it was a show that was funny, but nice, and since they got rid of John Oliver (Thank god) the cast has settled into the roles, the writers knew exactly what to do and each episode consistently brings the funny.
Last week saw Buster Bluth teaching pottery, and banning anyone from doing the Ghost movements.
This week sees Chevy Chase's crazy Pierce Hawthorne being pranked for April Fools by Jeff and Troy using his new promotion in his Scientolgy-esque religion to make him wear a wizard's robe, hat and wand, with cookie.
And with April Fools comes Britta being a buzzkill, not wanting to pull pranks that make people feel bad, she plans to stick a hat on a frog and leave it on Senor Chang (Ken Jeong)'s desk.
In trying to do so, she pushes a human corpse out the window, leaving the Dean to hire Annie and Shirley as April Fools Security, Abed watching them, following them as they go through the buddy cop movie motions.
This show has so many great characters, a wealth of jokes and situations, and in 20 minutes we get some great stories, this is the rare idea that not only one plot, but several plots, can be done in the space of a show's run and never needing to jump to cutaways for the humour, maybe an extended unnecessary moment to add another gag, but never anything that slows the pace, this show is hysterical, fast paced and full of cynical sweetness, it's the best new show on TV, and at episode 20, it's simply perfect.
5/5
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