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| Length: | 364 minutes
(6 hours 4 minutes) | | MPAA Rating: | TV-PG | | Sorting Category: | TV Show |
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Synopsis: The Greendale gang welcomes in two new faces in the effort to help Greendale gain respectability and credibility.
Reaction: A fun season and a return to form.
Personal Rating: 8/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren also played husband and wife in Ri˘hie Ri˘h's Christmas Wish and starred together in the movie Clue.
- In the episode {Queer Studies & Advanced Waxing}, Frankie complains that she cannot contact the IT lady to fix the campus wi-fi and is instructed by Dean Pelton to fire the IT lady and hire Elroy instead. Paget Brewster, who plays Frankie, also played the IT lady in a [fifth season] episode. As a nod to the paradox, Frankie says her e-mails to the IT lady come back in Aramaic and when she calls her, all she gets is a strange tone that makes her nose bleed.
- After 5 seasons, Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley) did not return in this 6th season due to a family emergency.
- Keith David, who joins Season 6 of Community as Elroy Patashnik, lent his voice as the narrator back in [Season 3] Episode 14 titled {Pillows and Blankets}
- The '#andamovie' tag at the end of the episode ({Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television}) hints at the #sixseasonsandamovie fan theory coming true, but Joel McHale has said that there would only be a film if Dan Harmon wrote it.
- In the episode {Ladders}, on the wall of the underground bar, a picture of series creator Dan Harmon can be seen saying 'Don't serve this man'.
- Production necessarily moved to a new studio for season 6, and the cafeteria set now had load bearing beams. The plot line of the cafeteria roof collapsing in the episode {Ladders} was created to explain the appearance of these beams.
- Buzz Hickey, a criminology professor in the fifth season played by Jonathan Banks, has passed away. This was revealed in the lunch lady's hacked emails in the episode {Basic Email Security} as Dean Pelton's email for "Buzz Hickey Memorial Services."
- The story is a spoof of the infamous 2014 Sony E-Mail hack,which revealed, among other things, the negotiations between Yahoo and Sony Pictures Television regarding the sixth season of "Community". Joel McHale was also a victim of the hack, as e-mails between him and a Sony executive were among those made public.
- In the episode {Laws of Robotics & Party Rights}, the janitor at the end of the episode is played by [?] Abed Gheith. The character Abed Nadir is based on this real man.
- Professor DeSalvo (episode {Grifting 101}), is played by Matt Berry who starred in the English TV series [the I.T. Crowd] as Douglas Reynholm. Joel McHale, who plays Jeff, starred in the pilot episode of the American version of [the I.T. Crowd], which was canceled after the pilot. While Richard Ayoade, who played Moss in both versions, directed the [Season 2] episode {Critical Film Studies}.
- In {Intro to Recycled Cinema}, when Abed is in the frisbee heap and says bazinga it is a reference to a similar scene in [The Big Bang Theory] with Sheldon hiding in a ball pit.
- The 'Glipglop' featured in the movie the gang is shooting in {Intro to Recycled Cinema} originally appears in [Rick and Morty], the cartoon show that's also co-created by Dan Harmon.
- Several times in the episode {Wedding Videography} through the episode, Abed calls out on the characters "Jimming" or "doing a Jim". This is a reference to [The Office], where Jim Halpert would glance at the camera to express his emotions. Abed does not appear on screen. This is because Danny Pudi was shooting the Strange Calls pilot while this episode was being shot. He later dubbed in his lines.
- The telegram man is played by and named after Ryan Ridley, the writer of the episode {Grifting 101}.
- During the gala in the episode {Modern Espionage}, the gang uses code names based on the names of actors who have played Batman: Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Adam West, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Voice of Diedrich Bader. The code they use to talk to the group at large is "Belfry", which is based on the phrase "bat in a belfry."
- In the episode {Wedding Videography}, Garrett's wife, Stacy, is played by Erin McGathy, then wife of co-showrunner and creator, Dan Harmon.
- This episode features a scene parodying the elevator fight scene in the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. That movie was directed by the Russo Brothers, who had previously directed several episodes of [Community]. While the opening paintball duel set in the parking garage is a parody of the opening fight of the movie Highlander.
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| Episode List: | | Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating | | Ladders | 1 | 1 | Rob Schrab | Dan Harmon
Chris McKenna | Dean Pelton hires an administrative consultant to organize things at Greendale. | An interesting re-imagining of the format for a show that's not afraid to shake things up. | 8.1 | 8 | | Lawnmower Maintenance & Postnatal Care | 1 | 2 | Nat Faxon
Jim Rash | Alex Rubens | Jeff and Frankie ask an inventor for help extracting Dean Pelton from his virtual reality world. | | 8.0 | 8 | | Basic Crisis Room Decorum | 1 | 3 | Bobcat Goldthwait | Monica Padrick | The Greendale gang goes on the offensive when a rival college releases an attack ad. | | 8.0 | 7 | | Queer Studies & Advanced Waxing | 1 | 4 | Nat Faxon
Jim Rash | Matt Lawton | Dean Pelton is asked to lie; Chang auditions for a stage adaptation of "The Karate Kid." | | 8.3 | 7 | | Laws of Robotics & Party Rights | 1 | 5 | Rob Schrab | Dean Young | A prisoner attends Greendale via telerobot; Britta tries to get around one of Annie's rules. | | 8.1 | 7 | | Basic Email Security | 1 | 6 | Jay Chandrasekhar | Matt Roller | A hacker threatens to publish emails unless a scheduled appearance by a racist comic is canceled. | | 8.0 | 7 | | Advanced Safety Features | 1 | 7 | Rob Schrab | Carol Kolb | An ex-boyfriend persuades Britta to join a guerilla marketing campaign. | | 7.7 | 8 | | Intro to Recycled Cinema | 2 | 1 | Victor Nelli Jr. | Clay Lapari | The committee, along with a movie producer named Maury, help Abed complete his unfinished film. | Off the wall and zany. Just the way I like it. | 8.1 | 9 | | Grifting 101 | 2 | 2 | Rob Schrab | Ryan Ridley | When a clever clever con man, Professor DeSalvo, uses his class to cheat the study group, they enlist Jeff get revenge. The situation goes awry as Britta and Dean Pelton get involved in Jeff and Professor DeSalvo's scamming competition. | The final act gets quite bizarre, but that's not unusual for the show. | 8.0 | 8 | | Basic RV Repair and Palmistry | 2 | 3 | Jay Chandrasekhar | Dan Guterman | While on a road trip to get rid of a Greendale artifact, Abed turns a situation into a feature film. | | 7.8 | 7 | | Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating | | Modern Espionage | 2 | 4 | Rob Schrab | Mark Stegemann | When a secret game of paintball occurs on campus, Frankie threatens to expel those who participate. | An interesting take on the classic Community stand-by of paintball. | 9.2 | 7 | | Wedding Videography | 2 | 5 | Adam Davidson | Briggs Hatton | A marriage proposal in Jeff's law class exposes a connection between the future bride and groom. | | 8.7 | 7 | | Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television | 2 | 6 | Rob Schrab | Chris McKenna
Dan Harmon | As their sixth year at Greendale draws to a close, Abed asks everyone to imagine pitching a TV show about what they would do in season seven. | | 9.7 | 9 |
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