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Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Community Season 4 Episode 7 - Economics of Marine Biology
    6.6/10(3939 votes)

    S4:E7

    Dean Pelton enlists the study group to beautify the campus to woo a wealthy student to Greendale. A class on teaching P.E. pits Shirley against Troy.

    Director:Tricia Brock
    Writer:Tim Saccardo

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  2. Community Season 4 Episode 9 - Intro to Felt Surrogacy
    6.8/10(4580 votes)

    S4:E9

    Dean Pelton prompts the study group to use puppets to relive the traumatic events of a recent adventure.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Gene Hong

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  3. Community Season 4 Episode 4 - Alternative History of the German Invasion
    7.0/10(3969 votes)

    S4:E4

    The study group contends with a group of German students who take over the study room. Chang makes his return to campus.

    Director:Steven K. Tsuchida
    Writer:Ben Wexler

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  4. Community Season 4 Episode 1 - History 101
    7.1/10(4585 votes)

    S4:E1

    As Jeff competes for spots in an overbooked 'History of Ice Cream' class, Abed copes with the looming end of their time at Greendale by retreating into a surreal mental 'happy place', while Annie and Shirley engage in school-wide pranks.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Andy Bobrow

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  5. Community Season 6 Episode 7 - Advanced Safety Features
    7.1/10(3463 votes)

    S6:E7

    Britta's ex-boyfriend, Rick, returns, reigniting her far-fetched dreams of a normal relationship. Jeff goes to extremes to win Elroy over.

    Director:Rob Schrab
    Writer:Carol Kolb

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  6. Community Season 4 Episode 3 - Conventions of Space and Time
    7.2/10(4163 votes)

    S4:E3

    Troy worries about losing Abed to a fellow Inspector Spacetime fan at a convention for the show, while Annie fantasizes about being married to Jeff.

    Director:Michael Patrick Jann
    Writer:Maggie Bandur

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  7. Community Season 2 Episode 18 - Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy
    7.3/10(4390 votes)

    S2:E18

    Although Shirley and Andre don't want Chang involved with her baby, he resolves to be a good dad. Abed and Troy's new friend may be a war criminal.

    Director:Anthony Russo
    Writer:Andy Bobrow

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  8. Community Season 6 Episode 2 - Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care
    7.3/10(3757 votes)

    S6:E2

    When Dean Pelton loses himself — and a chunk of the college budget — in a virtual reality system, Jeff seeks help from its cantankerous inventor.

    Directors:Jim Rash, Nat Faxon
    Writer:Alex Rubens

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  9. Community Season 6 Episode 6 - Basic Email Security
    7.3/10(3500 votes)

    S6:E6

    A hacker angry over a racist comic's planned campus performance threatens to publish the activity committee's personal emails.

    Director:Jay Chandrasekhar
    Writer:Matt Roller

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  10. Community Season 6 Episode 10 - Basic RV Repair and Palmistry
    7.3/10(3517 votes)

    S6:E10

    A 19-foot plaster hand guides the group on an emotional journey as they travel through mountains and flashbacks while aboard Elroy's RV.

    Director:Jay Chandrasekhar
    Writer:Dan Guterman

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  11. Community Season 2 Episode 20 - Competitive Wine Tasting
    7.4/10(4338 votes)

    S2:E20

    Jeff is suspicious of Pierce's engagement to a pretty classmate. Troy invents a childhood trauma to impress Britta, and Abed challenges a professor.

    Director:Joe Russo
    Writer:Emily Cutler

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  12. Community Season 4 Episode 5 - Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations
    7.4/10(4008 votes)

    S4:E5

    Britta joins Jeff to see his estranged father on Thanksgiving. Shirley invites the rest of the group to spend the holiday with her judgmental in-laws.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writers:Annie Mebane, Stephen Basilone

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  13. Community Season 4 Episode 6 - Advanced Documentary Filmmaking
    7.4/10(3885 votes)

    S4:E6

    Greendale comes together to get to the bottom of Chang's amnesia, which Abed films as a documentary. Jeff, however, suspects Chang is faking it.

    Director:Jay Chandrasekhar
    Writer:Hunter Covington

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  14. Community Season 6 Episode 5 - Laws of Robotics and Party Rights
    7.4/10(3412 votes)

    S6:E5

    When prisoners roll into Greendale via telerobot, Jeff meets his match in a clever convict. Britta's plans for a raging house party backfire.

    Director:Rob Schrab
    Writer:Dean Young

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  15. Community Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.5/10(6956 votes)

    S1:E1

    When the legitimacy of his degree is challenged, lawyer Jeff Winger must return to school, where he meets a clan of misfit community college students.

    Directors:Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
    Writer:Dan Harmon

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  16. Community Season 3 Episode 11 - Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts
    7.5/10(4256 votes)

    S3:E11

    When Shirley's remarriage to Andre threatens to put her dreams of starting a business with Pierce on hold, Britta steps in.

    Director:Kyle Newacheck
    Writer:Vera Santamaria

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  17. Community Season 4 Episode 2 - Paranormal Parentage
    7.5/10(4229 votes)

    S4:E2

    On the way to a Halloween party, the study group must free Pierce from his panic room and slowly comes to suspect that his mansion is haunted.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Megan Ganz

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  18. Community Season 4 Episode 10 - Intro to Knots
    7.5/10(3888 votes)

    S4:E10

    Jeff organizes a lovely holiday gathering at his apartment, but Annie secretly invites Professor Cornwallis to get in his good graces.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Andy Bobrow

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  19. Community Season 6 Episode 1 - Ladders
    7.5/10(3951 votes)

    S6:E1

    New administrative consultant Frankie's strict — and sobering — changes split the group when Abed goes rogue to side with the enemy.

    Director:Rob Schrab
    Writers:Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna

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  20. Community Season 6 Episode 3 - Basic Crisis Room Decorum
    7.5/10(3548 votes)

    S6:E3

    A rival's attack ad puts the group into defensive mode — and a moral quandary. Britta and Chang find new ways to gross everyone out.

    Director:Bobcat Goldthwait
    Writer:Monica Padrick

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  21. Community Season 6 Episode 9 - Grifting 101
    7.5/10(3471 votes)

    S6:E9

    Visiting Professor DeSalvo gives Jeff and his friends a master class in grifting and a bonus lesson on the art of revenge.

    Director:Rob Schrab
    Writer:Ryan Ridley

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  22. Community Season 1 Episode 6 - Football, Feminism and You
    7.6/10(5184 votes)

    S1:E6

    Annie's dream of being the ex-football star's girlfriend is in jeopardy when Jeff is blackmailed into getting Troy to join Greendale's football team.

    Director:Joe Russo
    Writer:Hilary Winston

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  23. Community Season 3 Episode 6 - Advanced Gay
    7.6/10(4467 votes)

    S3:E6

    When a drag queen's song makes Hawthorne Wipes an iconic gay product, Pierce embraces it, until his homophobic dad shows up to squelch the idea.

    Director:Joe Russo
    Writer:Matt Murray

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  24. Community Season 4 Episode 13 - Advanced Introduction to Finality
    7.6/10(4099 votes)

    S4:E13

    A plan to celebrate Jeff's early graduation is unexpectedly disrupted by the study group's evil doppelgangers from the Darkest Timeline.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writer:Megan Ganz

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  25. Community Season 5 Episode 1 - Repilot
    7.6/10(4340 votes)

    S5:E1

    With his law practice doomed, Jeff returns to Greendale to start a class action suit against the school, but a hologram of Pierce has him reconsider.

    Director:Tristram Shapeero
    Writers:Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Economics of Marine Biology" is the worst rated episode of "Community". It scored 6.6/10 based on 3939 votes. Directed by Tricia Brock and written by Tim Saccardo, it aired on 3/21/2013. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Intro to Felt Surrogacy".