- 7.1/104,251 votes
#1 - History 101
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/7/2013
As Jeff competes for spots in an overbooked 'History of Ice Cream' class, Abed copes with the looming end of their time at Greendale by retreating into a surreal mental 'happy place', while Annie and Shirley engage in school-wide pranks.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Andy Bobrow
- 7.5/103,890 votes
#2 - Paranormal Parentage
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/14/2013
On the way to a Halloween party, the study group must free Pierce from his panic room and slowly comes to suspect that his mansion is haunted.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Megan Ganz
- 7.2/103,834 votes
#3 - Conventions of Space and Time
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/2013
Troy worries about losing Abed to a fellow Inspector Spacetime fan at a convention for the show, while Annie fantasizes about being married to Jeff.
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Writer: Maggie Bandur
- 7.0/103,635 votes
#4 - Alternative History of the German Invasion
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/2013
The study group contends with a group of German students who take over the study room. Chang makes his return to campus.
Director: Steven K. Tsuchida
Writer: Ben Wexler
- 7.4/103,686 votes
#5 - Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/2013
Britta joins Jeff to see his estranged father on Thanksgiving. Shirley invites the rest of the group to spend the holiday with her judgmental in-laws.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Stephen Basilone, Annie Mebane
- 7.4/103,566 votes
#6 - Advanced Documentary Filmmaking
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/14/2013
Greendale comes together to get to the bottom of Chang's amnesia, which Abed films as a documentary. Jeff, however, suspects Chang is faking it.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Hunter Covington
- 6.6/103,615 votes
#7 - Economics of Marine Biology
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 3/21/2013
Dean Pelton enlists the study group to beautify the campus to woo a wealthy student to Greendale. A class on teaching P.E. pits Shirley against Troy.
Director: Tricia Brock
Writer: Tim Saccardo
- 7.8/103,844 votes
#8 - Herstory of Dance
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 4/4/2013
Jeff sets out to embarrass Britta when she announces a dance for women's empowerment. Abed dreams of shuttling between two dates in one night.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Jack Kukoda
- 6.8/104,204 votes
#9 - Intro to Felt Surrogacy
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 4/11/2013
Dean Pelton prompts the study group to use puppets to relive the traumatic events of a recent adventure.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Gene Hong
- 7.5/103,570 votes
#10 - Intro to Knots
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 4/18/2013
Jeff organizes a lovely holiday gathering at his apartment, but Annie secretly invites Professor Cornwallis to get in his good graces.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Andy Bobrow
- 7.9/103,702 votes
#11 - Basic Human Anatomy
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 4/25/2013
When Annie and Shirley learn that Leonard is actually holding the spot as the class valedictorian, they join forces to bring him down.
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller
Writer: Jim Rash
- 8.1/103,959 votes
#12 - Heroic Origins
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 5/2/2013
Abed's research into the study group's history uncovers an overlooked series of chance encounters that led each of them to Greendale.
Director: Victor Nelli Jr.
Writer: Maggie Bandur, Stephen Basilone, Annie Mebane
- 7.6/103,772 votes
#13 - Advanced Introduction to Finality
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 5/9/2013
A plan to celebrate Jeff's early graduation is unexpectedly disrupted by the study group's evil doppelgangers from the Darkest Timeline.
Director: Tristram Shapeero
Writer: Megan Ganz
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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 4 Ratings Summary
"History 101" is the best rated episode of "Community" season 4. It scored 7.1/10 based on 4251 votes. Directed by Tristram Shapeero and written by Andy Bobrow, it aired on 2/7/2013. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Paranormal Parentage".