My favourite fictional television show is The Community. It follows the adventures of Jeff Winger, a lawyer whose falsified proof of education is deemed void by the bar. He attends a community college by the name of Greendale and unwittingly forms a study group made up of seven unlikely students. Through these newfound friends, Jeff will learn to be selfless, accepting, and he will get sucked in to all the crazy antics that seem to define Greendale and its students.
The best parts of the show for me are the satyrical elements, how the serious things are often comically approached, in stark contrast to the trivial incidents (the picture above shows how a lost pen can "tear people apart"), and the fact that Greendale College seems to turn every banal situation (a KFC space simulator, a school-wide paintball match, a fried-chicken mafia family) into an epic, yet heartfelt adventure. Even as I'm writing this, I'm thinking that this show sounds really stupid written down. I don't care. It's my favourite show, and I was hooked from episode one. Cast members, amongst others, include the asian criminal from the hangover (playing Spanish teacher Senior Chang) and Chevy Chase (playing study group member Pierce Hawthorn, a retired and bored-out-of-his-mind millionaire). It's a great television show for people like me, who are looking for light, over exaggerated comedic chaos.
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