- 8.6/104,852 votes
#1 - Anthropology 101
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2010
When the semester starts, Jeff is stunned that his rejection of Britta has made her a campus star; Chang wants to be accepted into the study group.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Chris McKenna
- 8.2/104,366 votes
#2 - Accounting for Lawyers
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2010
When an old friend from Jeff's past appears unexpectedly, his friends discover that he was the one responsible for Jeff's disbarment.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Emily Cutler
- 7.9/104,230 votes
#3 - The Psychology of Letting Go
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2010
A death provokes a fierce debate about Pierce's religious beliefs. Britta and Annie are at odds over tactics in the Gulf oil spill fund-raising drive.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
- 8.6/105,031 votes
#4 - Basic Rocket Science
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2010
Jeff and the group must salvage an aging museum exhibit that Dean Pelton wants as the centerpiece of Greendale's proposed aerospace training program.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Andy Bobrow
- 7.7/104,687 votes
#5 - Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2010
Shirley and Abed are at odds over his plan to direct and star in his own epic religious film.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Andrew Guest
- 9.2/106,871 votes
#6 - Epidemiology
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2010
Dean Pelton's army surplus party food sparks an outbreak of zombie-ism at the Greendale Halloween party.
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: Karey Dornetto
- 8.3/104,771 votes
#7 - Aerodynamics of Gender
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2010
Abed endears himself to the girls after he offers to take down their enemies on campus; Jeff and Troy stumble onto a groundskeeper's secret paradise.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Adam Countee
- 9.1/105,903 votes
#8 - Cooperative Calligraphy
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2010
Annie's missing pen leads to friction within the group.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Megan Ganz
- 9.4/107,123 votes
#9 - Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/2010
When Jeff tries to obtain credit for a fictitious class, the unintended consequences rock Greendale. Abed and Troy build an elaborate blanket fort.
Director: Adam Davidson
Writer: Chris McKenna
- 8.4/104,708 votes
#10 - Mixology Certification
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/2010
Troy's friends help him celebrate his 21st birthday.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Andy Bobrow
- 8.6/106,216 votes
#11 - Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/2010
The meaning of Christmas is lost and Abed's intense fixation on the holiday concerns the group in this special stop-motion animation episode.
Director: Duke Johnson
Writer: Dan Harmon, Dino Stamatopoulos
- 7.9/104,037 votes
#12 - Asian Population Studies
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/20/2011
With Chang pressing for membership in the study group, Annie's latest crush has Jeff reeling as Shirley unveils some stunning news.
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Emily Cutler
- 7.8/104,151 votes
#13 - Celebrity Pharmacology
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2011
Pierce's efforts to bribe director Annie may undermine the theater group's antidrug play; Jeff's texting prank puts Britta in an awkward situation.
Director: Fred Goss
Writer: Hilary Winston
- 9.5/107,904 votes
#14 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/2011
Abed invites "Fat Neil" to play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with the rest of the study group, hoping to boost his confidence, after Jeff becomes concerned about him being a loner. When Pierce finds out he was not invited, he joins anyway, disrupting their plans.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Andrew Guest
- 7.9/104,132 votes
#15 - Early 21st Century Romanticism
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/2011
On Valentine's Day, Troy and Abed compete for the attention of an assistant librarian, while Britta tries to show she's open-minded about lesbians.
Director: Steven Sprung
Writer: Karey Dornetto
- 8.7/104,786 votes
#16 - Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/2011
Claiming that he is about to die, Pierce summons the study group to the hospital to bequeath his belongings to them.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Megan Ganz
- 8.1/104,248 votes
#17 - Intro to Political Science
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/2011
For an upcoming vice-presidential visit, Glendale's Dean Pelton hastily organizes an election for student body president that pits Annie against Jeff.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Adam Countee
- 7.3/103,976 votes
#18 - Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/17/2011
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
- 8.9/105,540 votes
#19 - Critical Film Studies
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/24/2011
Jeff and the group arrange a Pulp Fiction birthday party for Abed, but he has his own plans, starting with an expensive dinner for himself and Jeff.
Director: Richard Ayoade
Writer: Sona Panos
- 7.4/103,930 votes
#20 - Competitive Wine Tasting
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2011
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
- 9.0/105,514 votes
#21 - Paradigms of Human Memory
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/2011
Working on their final anthropology diorama, Chang finds a cache of items stolen by Troy's monkey that dredge up unhappy memories for the study group.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Chris McKenna
- 7.9/103,949 votes
#22 - Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/2011
As the semester ends, the anthropology final is disrupted when Shirley goes into labor and her husband, Andre, is summoned to school for the birth.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Karey Dornetto
- 9.6/108,715 votes
#23 - A Fistful of Paintballs (1)
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/5/2011
A $100,000 paintball war prize pits members of the study group against one another, until they decide to join forces to stop a mysterious challenger.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Andrew Guest
- 9.5/107,215 votes
#24 - For a Few Paintballs More (2)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/12/2011
As the paintball war is revealed to be a City College plot, Jeff and Troy vie for control of Greendale's ragtag army, while Pierce betrays the group.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
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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.
Genre:Comedy
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Anthropology 101" is the best rated episode of "Community" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 4852 votes. Directed by Joe Russo and written by Chris McKenna, it aired on 9/23/2010. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Accounting for Lawyers".