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Community: Season 4

13 episodes Premiered Feb 7, 2013 Updated Sep 27, 2026

Greendale Community College continues to attract an odd assortment of intellectual seekers in the fourth season of this sardonic sitcom. The series follows the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world's worst community college, as they navigate mastering the bachelor of science degree and their experiences at the institution. Created by Dan Harmon, the show features a cast including Joel McHale, Dan

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Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ The series follows a group of students at what is possibly the world's worst community college.
  • ⚡ Greendale Community College attracts an odd assortment of intellectual seekers.
  • ⚡ The ensemble cast includes characters played by Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, and Gillian Jacobs.
  • ⚡ The show is a sardonic sitcom created by Dan Harmon.
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Season overview

Greendale Community College continues to attract an odd assortment of intellectual seekers in the fourth season of this sardonic sitcom. The series follows the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world's worst community college, as they navigate mastering the bachelor of science degree and their experiences at the institution. Created by Dan Harmon, the show features a cast including Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, and Gillian Jacobs. The overarching television series ran for one hundred ten episodes across six seasons, with the first five seasons airing on NBC from September seventeen, two thousand nine, to April seventeen, two thousand fourteen, and the final season airing on Yahoo Screen from March seventeen to June two, two thousand fifteen.

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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S4·E1 Mytharc

History 101

Feb 7, 2013 · 22 min

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 plac

S4·E2 Core

Paranormal Parentage

Feb 14, 2013 · 22 min

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.

S4·E3 Core

Conventions of Space and Time

Feb 21, 2013 · 22 min

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.

S4·E5 Core

Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations

Mar 7, 2013 · 22 min

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.

S4·E6 Core

Advanced Documentary Filmmaking

Mar 14, 2013 · 22 min

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.

S4·E7 Core

Economics of Marine Biology

Mar 21, 2013 · 22 min

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.

S4·E8 Core

Herstory of Dance

Apr 4, 2013 · 22 min

Jeff sets out to embarrass Britta when she announces a dance for women's empowerment. Abed dreams of shuttling between two dates in one night.

S4·E9 Core

Intro to Felt Surrogacy

Apr 11, 2013 · 21 min

Dean Pelton prompts the study group to use puppets to relive the traumatic events of a recent adventure.

S4·E10 Core

Intro to Knots

Apr 18, 2013 · 22 min

Jeff organizes a lovely holiday gathering at his apartment, but Annie secretly invites Professor Cornwallis to get in his good graces.

S4·E11 Core

Basic Human Anatomy

Apr 25, 2013 · 22 min

When Annie and Shirley learn that Leonard is actually holding the spot as the class valedictorian, they join forces to bring him down.

S4·E12 Mytharc

Heroic Origins

May 2, 2013 · 22 min

Abed's research into the study group's history uncovers an overlooked series of chance encounters that led each of them to Greendale.

S4·E13 Mytharc

Advanced Introduction to Finality

May 9, 2013 · 22 min

A plan to celebrate Jeff's early graduation is unexpectedly disrupted by the study group's evil doppelgangers from the Darkest Timeline.

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