I see your point—Monty Python is sketch comedy too, loosely. But I still disagree about satire overall, which does need to distance the heart from the head and needs to undercut the heart, mostly (though never, in this show's case, completely)

Hmmm. The grade seems way too low to me (B-), and it's not because I expect less of the show in any way. It's just that Community has never followed the "deep character insight and progression" path that seems to pass as the AV Club criteria for *all* stories and entertainment. But not all shows are the…