The Worst Community Episodes

“Economics of Marine Biology” is another Community episode that probably sounded like a great idea in the writer’s room. In order to lure a wealthy student to Greendale, the Dean recruits the study group to do anything necessary to make the campus seem cool.

And to their credit, the B and C plots gave us some fun, unconventional pairings, and we enjoyed seeing Troy bond with Shirley and especially seeing Jeff bond with Pierce.

But the A plot just flounders, even with fun concepts like Abed trying to create a fake fraternity modeled after some of his favorite college party movies. None of our characters have an arc, and they aren’t really even the focus.

That honor belongs to the new student, who ends up being just as boring as he is wealthy. Whereas other terrible episodes of Community take a big swing and miss, this tepid bunt of an episode somehow ends up being the worst (that’s right, Britta, you’re finally off the hook).

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