Community: at the Moment, the best sitcom I’ve ever seen in the last 10 years

TV these last years has become more popular, due the fact that shows can recreate the cinematography of the movies. Shows like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead feel more like films than traditional TV dramas every time we see them.

Why? Maybe is the way they’re filmed, the pacing or the overall graphic content that years ago was expected only in a theatrical release,  but we all can agree that when we talk about adaptations, TV is the answer.

But wait… what about the sitcoms? I mean we all know the Sitcom formula… the funny scenarios, the relatable situations and characters and the hit or miss jokes that rely on a laugh track that just shows the lack of confidence that the writers had about their own material.

Don’t get me wrong, I love sitcoms like Seinfeld because the writing is good and the jokes are solid even without the laugh track. But the more is used, the more is abused… and man, there are a lot of them.

But in the most recent years, a new generation of Sitcoms has raised and suddenly, the laugh track started to be associated with lack of talent. Shows like Scrubs and Malcolm in the Middle became cult hits because their speed, their energy and of course good jokes and funny characters.

But If I had to choose my favorite of all these non-laugh track sitcoms that has became successful in the last 5 years, my answer would be: Community

Folks, these are some of the funniest people on the planet... I guarantee you that every one of them is going to make you laugh out loud at least once.

For those who don’t know this show, let me explain: Community is an NBC sitcom that premiered on September 17 of 2009 on NBC and rely on Meta humor and pop culture references as its main resource.

It’s about a sleazy lawyer called Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) which lied about his bachelor degree and need to go back to study to retrieve it. Winger enrolls in a community college called Greendale, managed by an eccentric Dean called Craig Pelton (Jim Rash). Jeff becomes attracted to a political activist woman named Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), and decides to create a Study Group just to spend time with her.

But Britta, aware of his intentions, decides to invite other classmates to the Group:

Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi): an Arabic-polish student with encyclopedic knowledge about TV and movies and has some problems to interact with people (it’s speculated that has asperger syndrome)

Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown): a Christian single mother with entrepreneurship that wants to start a brownie business and it’s sort of like a mother to the other members

Annie Edison (Alison Brie): an obsessive-compulsive Jewish girl who always wants to be the top of their class and has some feelings for Jeff. She’s the youngest of the group

Troy Barnes (Donald Glover): Abed’s best friend and a former high school quarterback that went to the same school as Annie. He and Abed run a fictional show called “Troy and Abed in the morning”

Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase): The oldest member of the group. A millionaire that due his bigotry and arrogance he’s the one who causes more conflicts inside the group

And there's also a non official member called Benjamin Chang (Ken Jeong) who was a teacher in the first season and it's extremely megalomaniac and insane. He's a lot of fun too.

Where do I begin with this show? Not only satirizes TV clichés, movies and aspects of human condition. But also manages to get a pretty solid writing with top notch jokes, excellent storytelling, perfect pacing and an overall epic feeling. Some of these episodes have some of the most over-the-top plots that I’ve ever seen in a live-action Sitcom.

For example, one episode it’s about Jeff playing an epic pool game against his teacher all because he doesn’t want to use the uniform that was required, other episode where the crew get trapped in a spaceship simulator and got parked and the only way to escape is simulating a rocket launch. And other episode involves a war with paintball that I won’t dare to ruin for you explaining it. Let’s just say that there’s loud laughs guaranteed.

They make everything, and I mean everything: animation, puppets, surreal jokes, parodies… and all of them hits bull’s-eye.

All I can do right now is recommended to all of you folks. Because I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that this show is hit after hit after hit. I would even dare to call it the Monty Python of this generation. It is THAT good.

And my friends, that is all I had to say. For now… Stay tuned for a deeper analysis of this wonderful show in the near future. Troy And Abed say goodbye.