He IS living in a TV show.

1.  The danger is once he gets back into a high paying lawyer job, it'll suck his soul out and turn him into Michael Clayton again.

It's not going to change.  I think a couple episodes are equal to Pillows and Blankets, but I don't have it in my top 5.  There is nothing in the new season that anyone would find equal to their own personal peak episodes. 

I think the show was a little wobbly out the gate (it covered a lot of well-tread PCU ground), and most of my least favorite episodes are season 1s (now joined by several season 4s), but I agree about Football, Feminism, and You.  That's a great episode!

Awful.  The worst thing that Community's done.  It's trying to be a different show there: a liberal-slanted take on the State of Race Relations in America, and it's absolutely cringe inducing, particularly their attempt to do commentary on the Muslim/Arab community. 

1.  Heroic Origins.  A-
2.  Basic Human Anatomy A-
3.  Advanced Documentary Filmmaking B+
4.  Herstory of Dance B+
5.  Cooperative Escape in Family Relations B+
6.  Alternative History of the German Invasion B
7.  History 101 B
8.  Paranormal Parentage B
9.  Economics of Marine Biology B
10.  Intro to Felt Surrogacy B-
11. …

Good point.  The real issue is that they didn't make paintball cool again.  They did the opposite.

I thought he sounded like Jack Bauer. 

Season 4 was ok.  This episode wasn't the worst thing the show ever did. 

I disagree.  How other characters picture Abed's imaginitive digressions is an interesting premise. 

Agreed with your overall point about Todd's "dream" complaint, but this is still a terrible premise for a season/series finale.

Man.  I really thought that Todd VanDerWerff's relentless drumbeat about how this season had just completely coasted on harvesting old Community bits for diminishing returns as a misguided way to appease the fan-base was really pat and reductive.  Then this episode came along and just proved his point.

Hot Cops. 

Baby Boomer Santa is a very useful song to quote from when confronted with Baby Boomer Bullshit.  For that reason alone, it's a solid episode.

My biggest emotional moment came from the revelations of Critical Film Studies: the desire for both Jeff and Abed to connect and their inability to do so, until Jeff connects to Abed anyway by understanding that Abed's meta-movie bit was his attempt to legitimately connect.  Very beautiful.

I agree with Rowan Kasier's top five, and the order, except I'd sub Critical Film Studies for Conspiracy at 2.  To me, that had the best fusion of character work and meta concept bravado.  I remember watching the long take (at least in my mind) of Abed's bizarre Cougartown speech completely mesmerized, in part by the…

This discussion reminds me of Donnie Darko.  Here was a movie that was ambiguous and mysterious, but still clear enough in thematic intent (Donnie accepts death in order to spare the lives of others) that an explanation of the mechanics at work were completely beside the point.  In fact, the general air of mystery…

I posted below, but it probably makes more sense to post it here:

Although I really liked this episode, I agree with the issues raised about Chang.

I guess some people never change. Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.