The Best Episodes of Community Season 2

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

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

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

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

Dean Pelton's army surplus party food sparks an outbreak of zombie-ism at the Greendale Halloween party.

Director: Anthony Hemingway

Writer: Karey Dornetto

Annie's missing pen leads to friction within the group.

Director: Joe Russo

Writer: Megan Ganz

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

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

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

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

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

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

Troy's friends help him celebrate his 21st birthday.

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar

Writer: Andy Bobrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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