Community’s Best Parody Episodes

Community delivered plenty of documentary-style episodes, but one, in particular, spoofed a precise documentary, with Dean Craig Pelton perfectly stealing the show. “Documentary Filmmaking: Redux” was a direct spoof on Hearts of Darkness, the documentary about the making of Apocolypse Now.

The dean is given a small budget to create a new commercial for Greendale. But after his directorial powers go to his head, Dean Pelton becomes crazed and obsessed with making the perfect commercial. 

In the end, Pelton is left with no actors, thousands of dollars over budget, and no commercial to submit. But Abed, who had been acting as the videographer for the episodes documentary about the making of the commercial, saves the day by piecing together clips to create a compelling new commercial.