The Worst Episodes of Community
Every episode of Community ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Community!
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.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Community" is "Economics of Marine Biology", rated 6.6/10 from 3586 user votes. It was directed by Tricia Brock and written by Tim Saccardo. "Economics of Marine Biology" aired on 3/21/2013 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Intro to Felt Surrogacy".
6.6/10 3,586 votes#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
6.8/10 4,167 votes#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
7.0/10 3,605 votes#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
7.1/10 4,220 votes#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
7.1/10 3,153 votes#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
7.2/10 3,804 votes#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
7.3/10 3,945 votes#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
7.3/10 3,433 votes#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
7.3/10 3,192 votes#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
7.3/10 3,199 votes#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
7.4/10 3,895 votes#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
7.4/10 3,655 votes#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
7.4/10 3,537 votes#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
7.4/10 3,112 votes#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
7.5/10 6,166 votes#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
7.5/10 4,038 votes#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
7.5/10 3,853 votes#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
7.5/10 3,541 votes#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
7.5/10 3,621 votes#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
7.5/10 3,250 votes#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
7.5/10 3,167 votes#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
7.6/10 4,601 votes#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
7.6/10 3,871 votes#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
7.6/10 3,742 votes#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
7.6/10 3,177 votes#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