6.6/103,615 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.8/104,204 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.0/103,635 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.1/104,251 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.1/103,176 votesLoading...#5 - Advanced Safety Features
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 4/21/2015
Britta's ex-boyfriend, Rick, returns, reigniting her far-fetched dreams of a normal relationship. Annie goes to extremes to win Elroy over.
Director: Rob Schrab
Writer: Carol Kolb
7.2/103,834 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.3/103,976 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.3/103,460 votesLoading...#8 - Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 3/17/2015
When Dean Pelton loses himself — and a chunk of the college budget — in a virtual reality system, Jeff seeks help from its cantankerous inventor.
Writer: Alex Rubens
7.3/103,219 votesLoading...#9 - Basic Email Security
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 4/14/2015
A hacker angry over a racist comic's planned campus performance threatens to publish the activity committee's personal emails.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Matt Roller
7.3/103,224 votesLoading...#10 - Basic RV Repair and Palmistry
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 5/12/2015
A 19-foot plaster hand guides the group on an emotional journey as they travel through mountains and flashbacks while aboard Elroy's RV.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Dan Guterman
7.4/103,930 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.4/103,686 votesLoading...#12 - 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 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.4/103,137 votesLoading...#14 - Laws of Robotics and Party Rights
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/2015
When prisoners roll into Greendale via telerobot, Jeff meets his match in a clever convict. Britta's plans for a raging house party backfire.
Director: Rob Schrab
Writer: Dean Young
7.5/106,212 votesLoading...#15 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2009
When the legitimacy of his degree is challenged, lawyer Jeff Winger must return to school, where he meets a clan of misfit community college students.
Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Writer: Dan Harmon
7.5/104,072 votesLoading...#16 - Advanced Gay
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2011
When a drag queen's song makes Hawthorne Wipes an iconic gay product, Pierce embraces it, until his homophobic dad shows up to squelch the idea.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Matt Murray
7.5/103,890 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.5/103,570 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.5/103,648 votesLoading...#19 - Ladders
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/2015
New administrative consultant Frankie's strict — and sobering — changes split the group when Abed goes rogue to side with the enemy.
Director: Rob Schrab
Writer: Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna
7.5/103,275 votesLoading...#20 - Basic Crisis Room Decorum
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 3/24/2015
A rival's attack ad puts the group into defensive mode — and a moral quandary. Britta and Chang find new ways to gross everyone out.
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Writer: Monica Padrick
7.5/103,195 votesLoading...#21 - Grifting 101
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 5/5/2015
Visiting Professor DeSalvo gives Jeff and his friends a master class in grifting and a bonus lesson on the art of revenge.
Director: Rob Schrab
Writer: Ryan Ridley
7.6/104,632 votesLoading...#22 - Football, Feminism and You
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/2009
Annie's dream of being the ex-football star's girlfriend is in jeopardy when Jeff is blackmailed into getting Troy to join Greendale's football team.
Director: Joe Russo
Writer: Hilary Winston
7.6/103,900 votesLoading...#23 - Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/2012
When Shirley's remarriage to Andre threatens to put her dreams of starting a business with Pierce on hold, Britta steps in.
Director: Kyle Newacheck
Writer: Vera Santamaria
7.6/103,772 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.6/103,207 votesLoading...#25 - Basic Story
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/2014
The Save Greendale Committee's success is short-lived when the board votes for a corporate sellout, but Pelton, Annie and Abed might find a solution.
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Carol Kolb
The Worst Episodes of Community
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Economics of Marine Biology" is the worst rated episode of "Community". It scored 6.6/10 based on 3615 votes. Directed by Tricia Brock and written by Tim Saccardo, it aired on 3/21/2013. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Intro to Felt Surrogacy".