Community: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Community Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Anthropology 101
Sep 23, 2010
When the semester starts, Jeff is stunned that his rejection of Britta has made her a campus star; Chang wants to be accepted into the study group.
Accounting for Lawyers
Sep 30, 2010
When an old friend from Jeff's past appears unexpectedly, his friends discover that he was the one responsible for Jeff's disbarment.
The Psychology of Letting Go
Oct 7, 2010
A death provokes a fierce debate about Pierce's religious beliefs. Britta and Annie are at odds over tactics in the Gulf oil spill fund-raising drive.
Basic Rocket Science
Oct 14, 2010
Jeff and the group must salvage an aging museum exhibit that Dean Pelton wants as the centerpiece of Greendale's proposed aerospace training program.
Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples
Oct 21, 2010
Shirley and Abed are at odds over his plan to direct and star in his own epic religious film.
Epidemiology
Oct 28, 2010
Dean Pelton's army surplus party food sparks an outbreak of zombie-ism at the Greendale Halloween party.
Aerodynamics of Gender
Nov 4, 2010
Abed endears himself to the girls after he offers to take down their enemies on campus; Jeff and Troy stumble onto a groundskeeper's secret paradise.
Cooperative Calligraphy
Nov 11, 2010
Annie's missing pen leads to friction within the group.
Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design
Nov 18, 2010
When Jeff tries to obtain credit for a fictitious class, the unintended consequences rock Greendale. Abed and Troy build an elaborate blanket fort.
Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas
Dec 9, 2010
The meaning of Christmas is lost and Abed's intense fixation on the holiday concerns the group in this special stop-motion animation episode.
Asian Population Studies
Jan 20, 2011
With Chang pressing for membership in the study group, Annie's latest crush has Jeff reeling as Shirley unveils some stunning news.
Celebrity Pharmacology
Jan 27, 2011
Pierce's efforts to bribe director Annie may undermine the theater group's antidrug play; Jeff's texting prank puts Britta in an awkward situation.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Feb 3, 2011
Abed invites "Fat Neil" to play a game of Dungeons & Dragons with the rest of the study group, hoping to boost his confidence, after Jeff becomes concerned about him being a loner.
Early 21st Century Romanticism
Feb 10, 2011
On Valentine's Day, Troy and Abed compete for the attention of an assistant librarian, while Britta tries to show she's open-minded about lesbians.
Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking
Feb 17, 2011
Claiming that he is about to die, Pierce summons the study group to the hospital to bequeath his belongings to them.
Intro to Political Science
Feb 24, 2011
For an upcoming vice-presidential visit, Glendale's Dean Pelton hastily organizes an election for student body president that pits Annie against Jeff.
Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy
Mar 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.
Critical Film Studies
Mar 24, 2011
Jeff and the group arrange a Pulp Fiction birthday party for Abed, but he has his own plans, starting with an expensive dinner for himself and Jeff.
Competitive Wine Tasting
Apr 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.
Paradigms of Human Memory
Apr 21, 2011
Working on their final anthropology diorama, Chang finds a cache of items stolen by Troy's monkey that dredge up unhappy memories for the study group.
Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts
Apr 28, 2011
As the semester ends, the anthropology final is disrupted when Shirley goes into labor and her husband, Andre, is summoned to school for the birth.
A Fistful of Paintballs (1)
May 5, 2011
A $100,000 paintball war prize pits members of the study group against one another, until they decide to join forces to stop a mysterious challenger.
For a Few Paintballs More (2)
May 12, 2011
As the paintball war is revealed to be a City College plot, Jeff and Troy vie for control of Greendale's ragtag army, while Pierce betrays the group.